News tagged with mri scanners

Thought-controlled computers on the way: Intel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers controlled by the mind are going a step further with Intel's development of mind-controlled computers. Existing computers operated by brain power require the user to mentally move ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report

The world is running out of helium: Nobel prize winner

(PhysOrg.com) -- A renowned expert on helium says we are wasting our supplies of the inert gas helium and will run out within 25 to 30 years, which will have disastrous consequences for hospitals and industry.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (49) | comments 40 | with audio podcast report

Superconductivity breakthrough could lead to more cost effective technologies

Researchers from the Universities of Liverpool and Durham have fitted another piece into the superconductivity puzzle that could help in the quest to bring down the cost of technologies such as MRI scanners ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scans show learning 'sculpts' the brain's connections

Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

HP has open-source vision for 'orphan' webOS

The future of webOS - the innovative mobile software that three successive CEOs at Hewlett-Packard have struggled to make into a profitable product - may lie somewhere in the windowless rooms of a Stanford Medical School ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Brain maps' track how humans reach

(PhysOrg.com) -- A ballet dancer grasps her partner's hand to connect for a pas de deux. Later that night, in the dark, she reaches for her calf to massage a sore spot. Her brain is using different "maps" to plan for each ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers take major step toward first biological test for autism

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and the University of Utah have developed the best biologically based test for autism to date. The test was able to detect the disorder in individuals with high-functioning ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use nanoparticles as destructive beacons to zap tumors

A group of researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is developing a way to treat cancer by using lasers to light up tiny nanoparticles and destroy tumors with the ensuing heat.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Zeroing in on quantum effects: New materials yield clues about high-temperature superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Chinese physicists are zeroing in on critical effects at the heart of the latest high-temperature superconductors -- but they're using other materials to do it.

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

The network in our heads: What our brains have in common with the internet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our brain works as a set of networks - much like the internet. Could our understanding of the internet help us in understanding our brains? Gabriele Lohmann and her colleagues from the Max ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Remarkable new images show a 4-D view of the heart

(PhysOrg.com) -- What does the racing heart of someone in love - or on a fast treadmill - really look like? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) now have pictures ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Quantum fluctuations are key in superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- New experiments on a recently discovered class of iron-based superconductors suggest that the ability of their electrons to conduct electricity without resistance is directly connected with the magnetic properties ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 90 | with audio podcast

Dutch PhD student develops device to combat noise

Johan Wesselink of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a device to actively combat noise nuisance. This invention curtails sound waves and vibrations by producing anti-noise. The researcher is confident ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 17

Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease

In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Magnetic Resonance Now Also Comes In Tiny Quantities

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is now possible to analyse very small samples using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Thanks to a specially constructed detector, a 'stripline', greater sensitivity can be achieved while maintaining the same ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0