News tagged with electronic tongue

Electronic tongue identifies cava wines

Researchers at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona have developed an electronic tongue which can identify different types of cava wines, thanks to a combination of sensor systems and advanced mathematical procedures. The device ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advance toward an 'electronic tongue' with a taste for sweets

In a new approach to an effective "electronic tongue" that mimics human taste, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a small, inexpensive, lab-on-a-chip sensor that quickly and accurately identifies ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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A super tiny giraffe (w/ Video)

Shaahin Amini was ready to quit. The Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering had spent three hours looking into a microscope scanning a maze of black-and-white crosshatched ...

Other Sciences / Other

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More words dying and fewer words being added to languages in digital age: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding new words to an existing language, or dropping old ones is something people have always done. As new things or ideas are discovered, new words crop up to describe them. But now, in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Nanocrystals go bare: Stripping material’s tiny tethers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a universal technique for stripping nanocrystals of tether-like molecules that until now have posed as obstacles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook

(AP) -- In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets - up to 5 million a day.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

'Magnetic tongue' ready to help produce tastier processed foods

The "electronic nose," which detects odors, has a companion among emerging futuristic "e-sensing" devices intended to replace abilities that once were strictly human-and-animal-only. It is a "magnetic tongue" ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Electrical conductor sparks interest

Chemists at Harvard and three other institutions have created a purified version of an organic semiconductor with electrical properties that put it among a small handful of organic compounds and that provides ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Dark beer has more iron than pale beer

A team of researchers from the University of Valladolid (Spain) has analysed 40 brands of beer, discovering that dark beer has more free iron than pale and non-alcoholic beers. Iron is essential to the human ...

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rats control appetite for poison

(PhysOrg.com) -- Life is tough for woodrats in deserts of the U.S. Southwest. There are few plants for food, and those plants produce poison to deter rodents, insects and other animals. A new University of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How can we measure infants' pain after an operation?

It turns out to be difficult to find out exactly how much a child who cannot yet speak suffers after a surgical operation. Researchers at the University Hospital of La Paz, in Madrid, have validated the 'Llanto' ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Larynx cancer treatment saves patients' voices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jerry Young had had a routine endoscopy and assumed that the hoarseness that appeared in his voice was an after-effect of that exam. “If it doesn’t go away in a couple of weeks, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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