Tag: physical sciences
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Injectable Neuro-Electronic Wire Mesh Demonstrated
9 June 2015. Researchers at Harvard University developed a tiny electronic wire mesh that can be injected into the brain and demonstrated its diagnostic and therapeutic potential with lab mice. The team from the lab of chemistry professor Charles Lieber published its findings yesterday in the journal Nature Nanotechnology (paid subscription required, but full text…
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GE, Institute to Design Digital Manufacturing Platform
3 June 2015. Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute in Chicago is developing a technology platform to make it easier for manufacturing companies to share technical data with their customers and suppliers, adapting concepts proposed by General Electric, which was chosen to lead the project. The platform, known as digital manufacturing commons, is expected to…
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Mini Gamma Camera Developed, Spin-Off Company Formed
1 June 2015. Physicists and medical researchers at two universities in the U.K. designed a hand-held camera that performs gamma ray imaging, normally requiring a powerful room-sized device for diagnosing tumors and other medical functions. The team from Universities of Leicester and Nottingham also formed a spin-off company, Gamma Technologies Ltd., to take the device…
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Synthetic Spider Silk Developed with Customized Properties
28 May 2015. Materials scientists and engineers developed and produced samples of synthetic spider silk, with a process that can adjust the silk’s properties to meet special demands of users. The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, led by MIT engineering professor Markus Buehler, published its findings earlier this month in the…
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Space Object Taxonomy Sought in $50K Challenge
22 May 2015. A new challenge on InnoCentive seeks a scientifically-based method for describing orbiting space objects with the fewest characteristics possible, but still predicts the objects’ behavior. The competition has a total purse of $50,000 and a deadline for submissions of 20 July 2015. InnoCentive in Waltham, Massachusetts conducts open-innovation, crowdsourcing competitions for corporate…
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Phillips, MIT Form Health Technology Collaboration
20 May 2015. Electronics manufacturer Royal Phillips and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating on research into health care technology and digital urban lighting systems. The 5-year, $25 million agreement also includes moving the company’s North American research and development center to Cambridge, Massachusetts near the MIT campus. Phillips, headquartered in the Netherlands, designs and…
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NASA Challenge Seeks Elements for Human Presence on Mars
8 May 2015. NASA is asking the public for ideas on ways to establish a long-term presence of Mars in a new challenge offered by InnoCentive. The competition has a total purse of $15,000 and a deadline for submissions of 6 July 2015. InnoCentive in Waltham, Massachusetts conducts open-innovation, crowdsourcing competitions for corporate and organization…
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New Company Founded to Develop Centimeter-Accurate GPS
Video: Centimeter-level GPS used in a virtual reality headset (University of Texas, Austin) 6 May 2015. An engineering lab at University of Texas in Austin designed a low-cost portable global positioning system with precision to a few centimeters, and started a company to take the technology to market. A team from UT-Austin’s Radionavigation Laboratory, led…
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Phone Add-On Designed to Image DNA Molecules
30 April 2015. A bioengineering lab at University of California in Los Angeles is developing a smartphone attachment that can image and measure the length of DNA molecules. The team led by engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan is scheduled to describe the system on 14 May at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics sponsored by the…
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Trial Testing App to Manage Diabetes, Foot Ulcers
14 April 2015. A clinical trial is getting under way testing a smartphone app to help people with diabetes manage their condition, and in particular assess chronic foot ulcers associated with diabetes. The application is the work of an information technology and biomedical engineering team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, that described the system…