News tagged with microwave technology

Finding frugal aliens: 'Benford beacons' concept could refocus search for intelligent extraterrestrial life

(PhysOrg.com) -- For 50 years, humans have scanned the skies with radio telescopes for distant electronic signals indicating the existence of intelligent alien life. The search — centered at the SETI Institute ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale spin waves can replace microwaves

A group of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, have become the first group in the world to demonstrate that theories about nanoscale spin waves ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Worldwide success in treatment of liver tumors

Leicester consultant surgeon who has developed a pioneering technique using microwaves to destroy liver tumours has treated more than 100 patients in the UK and other patients are now being treated internationally.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Graphene mixer can speed up future electronics

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) have for the first time demonstrated a novel subharmonic graphene FET mixer at microwave frequencies. The mixer provides new opportunities in future ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Weapons detection system could make airports, public buildings safer

Weapons detection technology being developed by McMaster researchers can't come soon enough for busy travelers.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Surgeons Use Microwaves to Destroy Tumors

A new minimally-invasive option for treating liver tumors, called microwave ablation, is now available at UC San Diego Medical Center and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, the only hospitals in the region to offer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

NASA's QuikScat sees category 3 Hurricane Bill's winds go a long distance

NASA satellites continue to capture important wind speed and cloud data that forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are using to help their forecasts. QuikScat has been particularly helpful in determining ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists hope to create robot strawberry pickers

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's Measurement Institute, have developed an imaging technology which can identify the ripeness of strawberries before they are picked. The developers ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breakthrough for post-4G communications

(PhysOrg.com) -- With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0