Engineering
A new wearable ultrasound patch that non-invasively monitors blood pressure in arteries deep beneath the skin could help people detect cardiovascular problems earlier on and with greater precision. In tests, the patch performed ...
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Engineering
A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis is the first to successfully record environmental data using a wireless photonic sensor resonator with a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) architecture.
Sep 12, 2018
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Robotics
A patent Amazon has received would pair humans and machines. In this case, the humans would be in a cage.
Sep 12, 2018
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Robotics
String art is a technique for the creation of visual artwork where images emerge from a set of strings that are spanned between pins. Now, at TU Vienna this work can be delegated to a robot—an example of a complex task ...
Sep 12, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Humans have the innate ability to predict the effect of collisions, merely using their common sense. In many cases, humans can even predict the results of similar collisions in situations in which mass, friction, or other ...
Computer Sciences
Steep tariffs, challenging geography, government subsidies, and restrictive quotas come to mind when we think about the barriers to international trade. But there are lots of different languages in the world, and translation ...
Sep 12, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
The U.S. wind industry is growing—up nearly 9 percent in 2017 as developers added enough capacity to power 27 million American homes, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
Sep 12, 2018
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Computer Sciences
A child is presented with a picture of various shapes and is asked to find the big red circle. To come to the answer, she goes through a few steps of reasoning: First, find all the big things; next, find the big things that ...
Sep 12, 2018
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Engineering
Endurance, endurance. As the drone market potential faces a hurdle in how it can respond to expectations of getting tasks done versus time in the air before needing to recharge, a newbie drone solution appears in the name ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apple on Wednesday was expected to unveil new iPhones, playing up eye-grabbing edge-to-edge screens in a bid to strengthen its position in a largely saturated global smartphone market.
Sep 12, 2018
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