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Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes, from driving a car to flying an aircraft or operating a power plant. Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed new nanomaterials that could lead to techniques for

Invention gives amputee more control and creativity Professor Gil Weinberg has already built a band of robotic musicians in his Georgia Tech lab. Now he’s created a robot that can be attached to amputees, allowing its technology to be embedded into humans. The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors that power two drumsticks. The first stick is controlled

Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program, disclosed in the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. But surveillance even surfaced as a subject in last week’s televised debate among the Democratic candidates for mayor in New York. The office

Patients with sleep disorders could be studied nonintrusively at home using wireless signals. More than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s can also disrupt sleep. Diagnosing and monitoring these conditions usually requires attaching electrodes and a variety of other sensors to patients, which can further disrupt their sleep.

It can repeatedly disinfect water for up to six months PureMadi, a nonprofit University of Virginia organization, will introduce a new invention – a simple ceramic water purification tablet – during its one-year celebration event Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. at Alumni Hall. Called MadiDrop, the tablet – developed and extensively tested at U.Va. – is

Scientists are bringing precision medicine to rheumatoid arthritis for the first time by using genetic profiling of joint tissue to see which drugs will work for which patients, reports a new Northwestern Medicine multi-site study. In the near future, patients won’t have to waste time and be disappointed with months of ineffective therapy, scientists said.

Super resolution microscopy is a technique that can see beyond the diffraction of light and provides unprecedented views of cells and their interior structures and organelles. An EPFL team has developed a technique that can perform both 3D super resolution microscopy and fast 3D phase imaging in a single instrument. This unique 4D microscope  combines a

Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have taken a major step in their efforts to help people with memory loss tied to brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Using sea snail nerve cells, the scientists reversed memory loss by determining when the cells were primed for learning. The scientists

In a world first, scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have created functioning fetal intestinal tissue from pluripotent stem cells. Both human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) were used in the research. hESCs have the natural ability to become any type of cell found in the human body, while the