News tagged with electric system

'ECG for the mind' could diagnose depression in an hour

An innovative diagnostic technique invented by a Monash University researcher could dramatically fast-track the detection of mental and neurological illnesses.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The future of electricity may be found in environmentally-friendly, thermoelectric cells

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation are funding research that may result in a military turbine aircraft that for the first time ever will produce its own electricity from exhaust ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Early warning system could keep lights on

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester are developing 'early warning systems' that could prevent power blackouts in the UK.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US army to be powered by waste

(PhysOrg.com) -- Defense company Qinetiq has been awarded a contract to supply the US army with a system that generates electricity from garbage.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9 weblog

New findings could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool

Understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny "microchannels" has led to formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cheaper Solar Power's Time Has Come

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar power manufacturers in the US are cutting prices to shift their stock, the government is chipping in with tax credits, and innovative leasing or financing arrangements spreading payments ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 18 weblog

DirecTV, TBS, TNT to put shows online

(AP) -- DirecTV Group Inc. is in talks with the TBS and TNT cable networks to offer their shows online, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

Technology / Business

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists hope tiny tubes can help repair damaged nerves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow are hoping to use tiny fabricated tubes to help damaged nerves heal themselves.

Chemistry / Polymers

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

SKorean moves to turn science fiction into fact

A computer screen that folds up like a pocket handkerchief, a harbour that goes out to a ship and a road which recharges electric vehicles -- it sounds like the stuff of science fiction.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 9

Advanced nerve cell system could help cure diabetic neuropathy, related diseases

Multiple sclerosis, diabetic neuropathy, and other conditions caused by a loss of myelin insulation around nerves can be debilitating and even deadly, but adequate treatments do not yet exist. That's in large part because ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers are developing devices that can help restore bodily movement

Grasping a cup of coffee and raising it to the mouth is a daily ritual most people take for granted. Yet, for those who have suffered a stroke or injury to the spinal cord, the task can be impossible to perform—until now.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Revolutionizing the diagnosis of serious disease

Revolutionary ultrasonic nanotechnology that could allow scientists to see inside a patient's individual cells to help diagnose serious illnesses is being developed by researchers at The University of Nottingham.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Expert: Obama's cybersecurity response disappointing in scope

President Barack Obama's announcement today (May 29) that he will create a cybersecurity coordinator in the White House with responsibility for information security is a step in the right direction, but more has ...

Technology / Internet

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New testing facility helps researchers improve land mine detection equipment

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines. The unique automated system measures the response of individual ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wanted: Computer hackers... to help government

(AP) -- Wanted: Computer hackers. Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.

Technology / Other

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2