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Study: Restaurants Are Significant Air Pollution Contributors
As if it wasn’t enough to worry about the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitting from common household cleaners used in the home, now comes word that even restaurants aren’t safe from such emissions.
French Researchers Extend Reach of Mass Spectrometry with Nanomechanical Resonators
A team of French researchers has demonstrated a new mass-spectrometry technology that measures the mass of particles previously beyond the reach of current commercial technology. The scientists used the technology, based on nanomechanical resonators, to measure the mass of a whole bacteriophage virus capsid.
Engineers Are Turning Data into Sound
Composers, programmers and engineers are combining art and science to create a better understanding of all types of data through sonification.
Eye Patch Uses Microneedles for Ocular Drug Delivery
An eye patch equipped with microneedles could provide a painless, efficient alternative to current methods of treating eye diseases such as glaucoma and macular degeneration.
Video: First Full-Body Medical Imaging in 3D
The world’s first full-body medical scanner can capture a 3D picture of the entire human body in 20 to 30 seconds.
New MRI Technique Used to Study Grey Matter Brain Changes After a Season of Football
A study from the University of California, Berkley, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used a new form of MRI to examine the brains of young tackle football players.
Researchers Warn About Chemical Weapons Risk Amid Advancements in Science, Tech
A team of researchers is urging the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention to consider certain steps to prevent a resurgence of chemical weapons, which might emerge in step with technology advancements and amid current international turmoil.
Researchers Convert Human Waste into Hydrochar
Ahead of World Toilet Day on November 19, comes news that researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) demonstrated a process for converting raw human excrement into nutrient-rich fertilizer and safe, reusable fuel.
Weight and Mass Matters: International System of Units is Overhauled
Four basic units of measurement — the ampere, the kilogram, the kelvin and the mole — have been redefined.
Pacemaker Size Shrinks for Use in Infants
The diminutive device, measuring only one cubic centimeter, can be implanted with a minimally invasive procedure that promises faster recovery times and shorter surgeries.
Wearable Bioreactor Promises a Leap for Regenerative Medicine
Delivering progesterone to an amputation injury site via a wearable bioreactor can induce limb regeneration in non-regenerative adult frogs — and potentially in humans.
Giant Hydraulic Shaker Vibrates Spacecraft With the Intensity of an Earthquake
The HYDRA multi-axis vibration test facility mimics the extreme forces that payloads experience during a rocket launch.
A New, More Comfortable Flexible Silicon Nanoneedle Patch
Researchers from Purdue University have created a new flexible, thin and translucent base for silicon nanoneedle patches.
Researchers: 5 Minute Scan May Predict Cognitive Decline
An international team of researchers, led by University College London (UCL), determined that a five-minute scan might detect a person's risk of dementia, well before symptoms of the disease emerge.
AI Systems Struggle to Analyze Data from Multiple Hospitals
A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sanai found that artificial intelligence (AI) trained to detect pneumonia on chest X-rays have decreased performance when using data from outside health systems.
Levitation is Key to Improving Nuclear Forensics
Researchers from Los Alamos Laboratory have created a new technique for nuclear forensics that helps conductive radioactive particle analysis.
Study Highlights How Drug Pollution Passes through Food Web, Beginning with Aquatic Insects
To highlight the issue of pharmaceutical pollution affecting surface waters all over the world, a team of researchers conducted a study of stream insects, discovering the presence of 69 different pharmaceutical compounds — sometimes at concentrations threatening to the animals that feed on those insects.
Optical Metrology Delivers Precision Engineering to the Production Floor
Used on the production line, in metrology labs, or integrated into factory automation, Zygo technology enables fast and precise measurements allowing engineers visibility to process stability for almost instant corrective action.
Study: The Molecular Makeup of Organic Aerosols
A clearer picture of the chemical composition of organic aerosols was obtained using a combination of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
Microneedles and Nanotech Offer a Path to Painless Vaccinations
Nanoparticle-encapsulated vaccines are combined with microneedles to boost immune responses with a more patient-friendly delivery method.