Streamlining the Internet of Things and other cyber-physical systems
Credit: Michigan Tech, Sarah Bird Sometimes referred to as the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems vary from phones to self-driving cars, from airplane controls to...
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Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?
Credit: Jon Husson and Shanan Peters/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- For the development of animals, nothing -- with the exception of DNA -- may be more...
AMPK — the enzyme that makes physical activity healthy
ampk Physical activity benefits diabetics and others with insulin resistance. One of the reasons is that a single bout of physical activity increases the effectiveness...
Rolling out an e-sticker revolution
Credit: © 2016 KAUST The healthcare industry forecasts that our wellbeing in the future will be monitored by wearable wirelessly networked sensors. Manufacturing such devices...
Relationship between patients with clinical auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
Hearing loss - a form of auditory neuropathy - is the most prevalent sensory disease in humans, caused by a variety of genetic and environmental...
Random access memory on a low energy diet
Credit: Illustration: T. Kosub/HZDR Memory chips are among the most basic components in computers. The random access memory is where processors temporarily store their data,...
Economics made simple with physics models
How would you go about understanding how markets can suddenly be gripped by panic? To physicists, using a model originally developed to explain magnetism might...
Think chicken — think intelligent, caring and complex
Credit: Farm Sanctuary Chickens are not as clueless or "bird-brained" as people believe them to be. They have distinct personalities and can outmaneuver one another....
Infant’s prolonged infection reveals mutation that helps bacteria tolerate antibiotics
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peter Barta The quest to understand a prolonged infection in an infant being treated for leukemia has led...
Chemically modified insulin is available more quickly
Replacing a hydrogen atom by an iodine atom in insulin, the hormone retains its efficacy but is available more rapidly to the organism. Researchers at...
The beating heart of solar energy
Credit: Lukas Bereuter The notion of using solar cells placed under the skin to continuously recharge implanted electronic medical devices is a viable one. Swiss...
Asian scientist launches Asia’s first supercomputing magazine
Credit: Asian Scientist Publishing Pte Ltd Singapore (Jan. 3, 2017) - Singapore-based publisher Asian Scientist Publishing Pte Ltd has launched Supercomputing Asia, a new print...
NTU and German scientists turn memory chips into processors to speed up computing tasks
Credit: Wonjoo Kim, Peter Grünberg Institut 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing...
First experimental proof of a 70 year old physics theory
Credit: IBS PARK Je-Geun, Associate Director at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), working in collaboration with CHEONG...
Technology for diagnosing vestibular function disorders created in Kaunas
(Kaunas University of Technology) Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) have joined forces developing technology for vestibular...
