#Student-designed pill dispenser uses fingerprint scanner to avoid overdosing And you thought that regular pill bottles were hard to open...
a new overdose-proof medication dispenser developed by a team of mechanical engineering students at Johns hopkins university can't be opened even with the help of a hammer or drill.
The university is currently looking into developing and testing it further, with an eye on possible commercialization.
A student team at Brigham Young University previously developed a somewhat similar device, although it utilizes a timer and a combination lock instead of a fingerprint scanner.
The ADAMAAS project is being conducted at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interactive Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University in Germany.
The group recently received#1. 2 million (US$1. 3 million) in funding from the German Federal Ministry for Education to further development of the glasses. n this project
In an advance that could help this clean energy source play a stronger role within the smart grid, researchers at the University of Texas,
and at a distance of up to 0. 5 meters (1. 6 ft). Led by Professor Chun T. Rim,
Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the University of Bristol say that low-intensity ultrasounds can overcome this deficiency.
Researchers at Purdue University have developed what they are describing as a smart capsule. The device is around the same mass as a 000-size gelatin capsule
"says Babak Ziaie, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. The research team says the capsule could prove particularly valuable in treating Clostridium difficile,
Now engineers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have combined both of these materials to create an ultra-efficient,
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#Implantable device hits targeted brain cells with light and drugs when triggered remotely The field of optogenetics where individual brains cells are made to behave differently
"says Jordan Mccall, a graduate student at Washington University in St louis and member of the research team."
professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. The research was published in the journal Cell l
#Smart low-carbon Solcer House generates more electricity that it uses A Welsh university claims to have built the UK first low-cost, low-carbon, energy-positive house.
The Solcer House was built by Cardiff University Solcer Project, part of the LCRI Program (Low Carbon Research Institute.
Gin Jose and his team at the University of Leeds. To use it patients simply place the pad of their finger against a small glass window on the device.
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#New molecular transistor can control single electrons Researchers from Germany, Japan and the United states have managed to create a tiny,
so the University of Cambridge's Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald and her team have developed what they claim to be a more accurate tool for early-diagnosis. Billed as"a pill on a string,
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#Ford's smart lighting technology spots potential hazards There are some incredible technological strides being made to improve road safety,
Scientists at Pohang University of Science and Technology have taken a slightly different approach. Their solution was inspired by intersections of amino acids called tyrosines that can be found in dragonfly wings and insect cuticles.
researchers from Hiroshima University recently demonstrated a new model that is said to be"the world fastest, largest, strongest,
a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was created originally as a strong, lightweight material for military and transportation applications,
A team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University has developed a tiny mechanical wrist that can be used for millimeter-sized incisions
Vanderbilt University applied for a provisional patent on the design in May, and the software interface that allows surgeons to control the mechanical wrist should be completed by the end of August.
#Synthetic material mimics coral's ocean-cleaning attributes Researchers from China's Anhui Jianzhu University have developed a synthetic substance that mimics coral's ability to collect harmful heavy metals from water.
it did give the researchers at Anhui Jianhu University an idea. The researchers worked with aluminum oxide,
But a team at the Cockrell School of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a"smart window"technology that allows the passage of light
Researchers at Tufts University have developed now silk-based inks containing bacteria-sensing agents that can withstand the rigors of inkjet printing,
"said Fiorenzo Omenetto, Ph d.,the Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering at Tufts School of engineering. The researchers doped the silk ink base with different bio-compounds to create a set of functional,
"says David Basha, Kumho Tyre Australia manager of marketing and training. Source: Kumho, ADESIGN Award A
"The study was conducted by researchers at UCLA, the University of California, San francisco, and Russia's Pavlov Institute.
The finding comes courtesy of University of Rochester geophysicist John Tarduno, who was one of the researchers responsible for the previous-best estimate of the age of Earth's magnetic field (3. 2 to 3. 45 billion years).
Researchers at UK Cardiff University and King College London identified which cells cause the airways to narrow
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#For the first time, Artificial Feet Can Feel the Ground Scientists in Austria are taking their research on prosthetic limbs one step further by restoring the sense of touch to those who wear them.
Professor Hubert Egger from the University of Linz recently unveiled research which enables patients to actually feel the bottom of their artificial feet.
has been testing out the technology at the University of Linz laboratory and at home. t feels like
Girls from Nepal Group Home Jump into Action Providing Earthquake Relief Researchers at the University of Brighton in the UK have come up with a ibrating barrier (Viba) that absorbs the energy from an earthquake
College Kidsinvention Connects Disaster Workers When Cells Are Down One of its inventors, Piefrancesco Cacciola, grew up in Messina, Sicily,
$60 billion over ten years for students to attend community college for free $478 billion over six years for surface transportation improvements $146 billion for research and development $5 billion in start-up funding
Researchers Tout Solar panels Made With erovskitemineral A new generation of solar panels made from a mineral called perovskite has the potential to convert solar energy into household electricity more cheaply than ever before, according to a study from Britain Exeter University.
and business model that have real potential--assuming those VCS have done their homework. Energy storage and fuel cells The two outliers in this category are Boston-Power and Bloom energy.
Meanwhile, a team at University of Rome Tor Vergata supplies scientific know-how. We spoke to Angelo Aliquò, a senior partner with Management Innovation and long-time energy industry consultant,
"As for technological input, the company is working both with the original Harvard team and researchers from the Department of Chemical science and Technology of the University Tor Vergata.
The money will come from philanthropists, universities, big banks and environmental nonprofits. The committed funds are more than double the goal of the President Obama Clean energy Investment Initiative that was announced earlier this year.
Led by the University of California, a group of institutional investors has committed already more than $1 billion for igh-potential companies
Back then, cofounder and Massachusetts institute of technology professor Yet-Ming Chiang described a lean sheet of paperapproach, combining concepts from flow batteries and fuel cells,
During 24m early days, Chiang and startup cofounder and fellow MIT professor W. Craig Carter saw its semisolid electrode material--dubbed ambridge crudefor its MIT roots--as a material to be used in flow batteries,
#Patient safety driving increased RFID use in hospitals The University of Vermont Medical center in Burlington, Vt.
Led by Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) in partnership with Obsidian Strategic, Tata Communications and Rutgers University,
seven universities and two large research organizations (A*Star in Singapore and Oak ridge National Laboratory in Oak ridge, Tenn..
also using ADIOS (Stony Brook University/ORNL) Researchers who are accustomed to TCP IP based file transfer (FTP) will want to note the major increase in data throughput enabled by long distance Infiniband.
A preview of upcoming projects includes GPGPU applications with Reims University in France, asynchronious linear solvers with University of Lille,
and learning rules employed by the brain to create ever more capable neurally-derived machine learning algorithms,
the IARPA proposal further explains. ltimate computational goals for MICRONS include the ability to perform complex information processing tasks such as one-shot learning, unsupervised clustering,
Fully funding a new cohort of students through the restored Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Conducting mathematics research to address the challenges of increasing complexity;
an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at NCSU and a co-author of an open-access paper in the Journal of Applied Physics, from AIP Publishing.
Young Duck Kim, has led a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) that have demonstrated for the first time ever an on-chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon,
Wang Fon-Jen Professor of Mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering and co-author of the study. his new type of roadbandlight emitter can be integrated into chips
Yun Daniel Park, professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Seoul National University and co-lead author,
who developed the Brain-to-Text system within their doctoral studies. The present work is the first that decodes continuously spoken speech
and capacitors A University of Texas at Dallas research team has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to more than 14 times their initial length and
In a study published last week in Cell, a team from Yale School of medicine used the technique to glean insight into why autism occurs in some people without a clear genetic cause.
Besides the convenience of a great model, wrote Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, a stem cell researcher at the University of California, San francisco, in an article accompanying Lancaster publication,
the devices could start being sold worldwide Flinders University, where it was created, has formed already a company to sell the devices."
"There are 10,000 universities in the world and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine,
A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
Professor Duncan wass said he expected self-healing products to reach consumers in the ery near future
Professor Wass and his team have been working with aerospace engineers at the university, who wanted to know
Professor wass said. ee not evolved to withstand any damage if we were like that we have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros
Professor wass said. The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
Professor wass said a bruise was a ood analogybut accepted that the dye would need to be tweaked to cater for nervous fliers. e probably do it with something
Professor wass said. The research was funded by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council UK Catalysis Hub, a collaborative project between universities and industry.
This week conference, entitled Catalysis Improving Society, will be one of the first events at which the team achievements have been detailed in public.
The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London,
but Professor wass said the general principle would remain the same. ee definitely getting to the stage where in the next five
when researchers at the University of Illinois in the US created a plastic capable of repairing itself
as they are damaged often by bird strikes (AFP/Getty) Professor Wass team at the University of Bristol has been focusing on the creation of self-healing versions of carbon fibre composite materials,
#High school student from Canada invents revolutionary iaid gadget for blind people Alex Deans, from Ontario in Canada, began creating the device after becoming curious
Alex Deans wants to see his device replace canes and guide dogs Whereas canes tell users what directly in front of them,
Alex will be starting at Montreal Mcgill University in the autumn, but hopes the iaid will be approved for US and Canadian rights so that, one day,
from the University of California at Berkeley, told the magazine. The same technique might also be used to create other parts of the human body.
'Roboticists at the Ransselaer Polytechnic institute adapted it for a trio of robots, two of which were told they had been given a"dumbing pill
It also means that anyone taking music for future study like teachers using videos in a class,
and growth of new tissue, explained professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, one of the lead researchers. t allows us to more closely imitate nature way of building joint cartilage,
and Tissue Engineering (3d printing Industry) A research team at Northwestern University has begun printing three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
assistant professor of Materials science and engineering at the Mccormick School of engineering and Surgery at the Feinberg School of medicine, has developed a new kind of graphene ink that can be used to print large 3d structures.
#Researchers Develop 3d printing Method to Produce Shell Capsules That Can Be loaded with Therapeutic Drugs Researchers at the University of Minnesota have introduced a novel 3d printing based method to produce highly monodisperse core/shell capsules that can
and particle distributions throughout a 3d matrix, Michael Mcalpine, an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the university, said. urthermore,
#3d printing Technique Being developed for Bone Regeneration A team of scientists from the University of Nottingham has developed a new 3d bioprinting technique that allows them to 3d-print a thick paste filled with protein-releasing microspheres that can be used to greatly speed up bone regeneration
Dr. Jing Yang from the University of Nottingham one of the leading researchers, explained, nitially wee targeting the clinical application of this material as injectable bone defect filler,
Yes, says Massimiliano Di Ventra, a physicist and computer scientist at the University of California, San diego. His team has built a memcomputing prototype with standard electronics that operate at room temperature.
By continuously training itself using historical records from thousands of weather stations and real time measurements, IBM system combines predictions from a number of weather models with geographic information and other data to produce the most accurate forecasts from minutes to weeks ahead,
government and industry collaborators to develop a Self learning weather Model and renewable forecasting Technology, known as SMT.
The project will also involve the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University, with their research institutes handling analyses of data,
said Michael Liehr, the university vice president of innovation and research. The research focused on getting around the physical limitations of existing materials,
he says. e are in the process of commercialising technology that originated in Imperial College, London University. eres Power was set up in 2001,
after years of research at the university. e have had several rounds of investment; last year, for example, we received about $35 million of additional investment,
so we have enough cash to see us through for several years of further development.
Rogers was a scholar at the Daiwa Foundation, a charity that fosters links between Japan and the UK.
a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and leader of the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) group,
which included MIT graduate students Peng Yu and Cheng Fang, had to take both timing and safety into consideration."
and it's application said Andrey Kuzmin professor of physics at the Institute for Lasers Photonics
Materials scientist John Rogers, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his colleagues want to create similarly complex devices that can wrap around these biological structures,
"study co-author Yonggang Huang, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, said in a statement."
a co-author of the research and an assistant professor of microbiology at the institute. Not every kind of cell can contribute DNA to cholera,
John Mekalanos, a professor of microbiology at the Harvard Medical school who was involved not in the new research,
a professor of neuroscience at the California Institute of technology and one of the researchers who developed the new prosthesis.
Dan Moran, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St louis, said he was a bit skeptical that the new prosthesis provided any finer motor control than already-developed methods of connecting with bionic arms through motor and premotor cortexes.
Krishna Shenoy, a professor of electrical engineering who studies neural prostheses at Stanford, was enthusiastic about the new prosthesis."
one of the co-authors of the new research and a graduate student at Harvard Medical school.""It could be a pinprick."
a mechanical engineer at Columbia University in New york, said in a statement. Scientists have wanted long to create a teensy"light bulb"to place on a chip, enabling
a professor of physics at Seoul National University, noted that graphene is embedded usually in or in contact with a substrate."
"said study co-author Tomasz Skwarnicki, a physicist at Syracuse University in New york. Based on the LHC data,
#Novel Use of WI-FI Signals to Power Remote Devices, named Powi-Fi The scientists from the University of Washington have devised a method to utilize Wi-fi signals to power a battery-free camera,
an Indian origin scientist along with colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle have asserted that Wi-fi radio broadcasts are a form of energy
with the researches at the University of Columbia devising the world's first evaporation-driven engine that runs by harvesting energy from the evaporating water.
"The technology has been developed by a team of bioengineers led by Ozgur Sahin at Columbia University by making use of the property of bacterial spores,
Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT, was of the view that the existing technology is not perfect
which hinders the strong electric properties said Youngpak Lee a professor at Hanyang University in Seoul South korea.
researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany made a skeletal muscle of a mouse contract in response to light.
said Dr. Simon Thomson, a consultant in Pain Management and Neuromodulation at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, UK. he simplicity of the programming software saves valuable time in the operating theatre,
#World First Prosthetic Leg With Real Sense of Feeling Researchers at the University of Applied sciences Upper Austria are reporting the installation of the first prosthetic leg with the ability of letting the wearer feel the ground beneath.
Researchers at Purdue University have come up with a new way of releasing drugs into the body in a controlled manner using tiny injectable nanowire implants.
The users underwent about 10 days of training before testing their skills against other users.
but researchers at University of Tokyo are looking forward to a time when the very clothes we wear are outfitted with interconnected sensors.
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#Artificial Neurons That Work Like Real Ones to Treat Neurological Conditions, Paralysis Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have created reportedly an artificial neuron that apparently works just like our own living neurons
Researchers at Purdue University have unveiled a new technique that can harness just about any atomic force microscope to be able to watch the changing dynamics of large groups of live cells at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Now a partnership between scientists at University of Nottingham in the UK and Cornell University in New york have developed a way of printing bonelike biocompatible material at room temperature
The system includes an infrared camera that can track the movement of the pupil and software that is calibrated for the user unique needs.
#New Technology for Blood-Free Glucose Sensing The University of Leeds may have solved one of the biggest holy grails in medicine,
The University of Leeds has partnered with Netscientific to spin off Glucosense Diagnostics, a company tasked with further developing the technology
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#St jude Medical Invisible Trial System Uses ipads, ipods to Control Pain Relieving Neurostimulator St jude Medical landed FDA approval to introduce its Invisible Trial System,
researchers from Washington Universityin St louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a wireless implant that can be controlled remotely to release drugs right into the brain.
the university said in a news release. More than 115 million animals worldwide are used in lab experiments annually, according to the Humane Society International,
Researchers at Columbia University are hoping to change that. They have invented a novel new type of engine that is powered entirely by evaporating water,
"We just need to give these people the chance at life through education by providing them the basic things:
#Industrial Pump Inspired By Bird Wings Birds are unwitting masters of fluid dynamics, they manipulate airflow each time they flap their wings, pushing air in one direction and moving themselves in another.
Two New york University researchers have taken inspiration from avian locomotion strategies and created a pump that moves fluid using vibration instead of a rotor.
Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues describe their invention today in the journal Nature Photonics.
University of Utah Electrical and Computer engineering Associate professor Rajesh Menon is leading a team that has created the world smallest beamsplitter for silicon photonic chips.
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#Charting quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene Over the last seven years, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi has built several hundred nanoscale stacked graphene systems to study their electronic properties."
is now a postdoctoral associate in Associate professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's group. He assembles sandwiches of graphene and boron nitride with various horizontal orientations."
Lead co-authors were postdoctoral associate Benjamin M. Hunt and Pappalardo Fellow Andrea Young, both from MIT Physics Professor Raymond C. Ashoori's group.
now assistant professor at the University of California at Santa barbara, and Hunt, who will join the faculty of the Carnegie mellon physics department this fall.
Hofstadter butterfly Graphene and boron nitride layers each have arranged atoms in a hexagonal, or six-sided, pattern.
Learning curve One of the first graduate students to join Jarillo-Herrero's group in 2008
He is also mentoring current graduate students Yuan Cao and Jason Luo L
#One step closer to a single-molecule device Researchers have designed a new technique to create a single-molecule diode,
The group, under the direction of Latha Venkataraman, associate professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, is the first to develop a single-molecule diode that may have real-world technological applications for nanoscale devices.
a Phd student working with Venkataraman and lead author of the paper.""A well-designed diode should only allow current to flow in one direction-the'on'direction
Venkataraman and her colleagues-Chemistry Assistant professor Luis Campos'group at Columbia and Jeffrey Neaton's group at the Molecular Foundry at UC Berkeley-focused on developing an asymmetry in the environment around the molecular junction.
An illustration of the molecule used by Columbia Engineering professor Latha Venkataraman to create the first single-molecule diode with a non-trivial rectification ratio overlaid on the raw current versus voltage data.
a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:
and computer engineering professor Zhenqiang"Jack"Ma, described the new device in a paper published May 26, 2015 by the journal Nature Communications("High-performance green flexible electronics based on biodegradable
"Working with Shaoqin"Sarah"Gong, a UW-Madison professor of biomedical engineering, Cai's group addressed two key barriers to using wood-derived materials in an electronics setting:
"Gong and her students also have been based studying bio polymers for more than a decade. CNF offers many benefits over current chip substrates, she says."
Yei Hwan Jung, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering and a co-author of the paper,
#Nanotechnology helps protect patients from bone infection Leading scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered nanotechnology could hold the key to preventing deep bone infections,
led by the University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry, showed applying small quantities of antibiotic to the surface of medical devices,
Lead researcher Paul Hatton, Professor of Biomaterials Sciences at the University of Sheffield, said: icroorganisms can attach themselves to implants
Professor Hatton added: eep bone infections associated with medical devices are increasing in number, especially among the elderly. s well as improving the quality of life,
Students and faculty at Vanderbilt University fabricated these tiny Archimedesspirals and then used ultrafast lasers at Vanderbilt and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington,
the Vanderbilt doctoral student who figured out how to study their optical behavior. The spirals were designed
and made at Vanderbilt by another doctoral student, Jed Ziegler, now at the Naval Research Laboratory.
said Stevenson Professor of Physics Richard Haglund, who directed the research. f you bow a violin string very lightly it produces a single tone.
however, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have shown how these defects first form on the road to failure.
The study was led by graduate student Lisa Chen and associate professor Daniel Gianola of the Department of Materials science and engineering in Penn School of engineering and Applied science.
postdoctoral researcher Mo-Rigen He and graduate student Jungho Shin, contributed to the study. They collaborated with Gunther Richter of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. anotechnology is not just about making things smaller,
Thinking smallvelásquez-García and his co-authors Philip Ponce de Leon, a former master student in mechanical engineering;
says Reza Ghodssi, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland. Relative to other approaches, he adds,
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