Challenges and opportunities in new technologies for health
The increasing capacity of each individual to monitor and manage their health without medical attention entails new challenges that cannot be ignored. This will be...
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What factors influence a patient’s intent to get colorectal cancer screening?
A patient's confidence in their ability to schedule, plan for and properly conduct their part in colorectal screening methods is a key factor that predicts...
Antibody is effective against radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis
Radiation therapy is part of the treatment regimen for about two thirds of cancer patients today. Radiotherapy is well tolerated in most cases, but it...
Clemson scientists receive $2.95M to improve and simplify large-scale data analysis
Credit: Jim Melvin / Clemson University CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Clemson University scientists Alex Feltus and Melissa Smith have received a $2.95 million collaborative award...
Photonics breakthough paving the way for improved wireless communication systems
Credit: University of Sydney Researchers from the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) in the University of Sydney's Australian Institute for...
Designing sensors to detect foreign bodies in food
Credit: NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre These devices are based on terahertz technology, a band in the electromagnetic spectrum located between the microwaves (which mobile phones...
How best to stir a steel furnace, and beat corrosion
Credit: Dr Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, Mr Szymon Kubal, Swansea University Two steel research projects led by Swansea University -- a better way to tackle corrosion, and...
Bio-inspired energy storage: A new light for solar power
Credit: RMIT University Inspired by an American fern, researchers have developed a groundbreaking prototype that could be the answer to the storage challenge still holding...
Next generation perovskite solar cells with new world-record performance
Credit: Photo by Hong Beom Ahn, Design by HyeJee Park A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has presented a new cost-efficient way to produce inorganic-organic...
New ultrafast flexible and transparent memory devices could herald new era of electronics
An innovative new technique to produce the quickest, smallest, highest-capacity memories for flexible and transparent applications could pave the way for a future golden age...
‘Whale breath’ reveals bacteria threatening endangered killer whales
Credit: Jeff Foster Droplets and exhaled breath caught from the blowholes of killer whales along the Pacific coast are providing scientists with insights into whale...
Caddisworm silk, DNA sleuths, urban streams and more from the University of Utah at ACS
University of Utah chemists gather with their peers in San Francisco next week at the American Chemical Society's National Meeting April 2-6. The theme of...
Not a pipe dream anymore — space-farming: A long legacy leading us to Mars
Credit: NASA Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017,...
USDA announces $4.5 million for higher education support
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of $4.5...
USDA announces $1.9 million for alfalfa and forage research
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of $1.9...
