News tagged with noninvasive technique

Electrical brain stimulation improves math skills

By applying electrical current to the brain, researchers reporting online on November 4 in Current Biology, have shown that they could enhance a person's mathematical performance for up to 6 months withou ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Laser technique has implications for detecting microbial life forms in Martian ice

An innovative technique called L.I.F.E. imaging used successfully to detect bacteria in frozen Antarctic lakes could have exciting implications for demonstrating signs of life in the polar regions of Mars, according to an ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Vet scientists' work on diagnostic, intervention tools for H1N1 helps human health lab, too

If some day you are tested for the H1N1 virus without the painful prick of a needle, thank a pig -- and a team of Kansas State University researchers and their collaborators who are connecting animal and human health.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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The need for speed

Coherent Raman scattering methods have one key advantage over spontaneous Raman microscopy: speed. The (sub-)microsecond pixel dwell times offered by narrowband CRS imaging methods have initiated a new era ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Virginia Tech wildlife researchers explore DNA research to help save Nepal's Bengal tigers

Tigers are fast disappearing from the modern world. The 2010 tiger census in Nepal estmates that only 155 of the Bengal tiger subspecies still exist there. Conserving tigers is a top priority for the government ...

Biology / Ecology

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Researchers provide fascinating insights into elephant behavior, conservation issues

Last year, Kenya lost 278 elephants to poachers, as compared to 177 in 2010. On the continent of Africa as whole, elephants have declined from an estimated 700,000 in 1990 to 360,000 today due to the demands ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Quantum computing has applications in magnetic imaging

Quantum computing -- considered the powerhouse of computational tasks -- may have applications in areas outside of pure electronics, according to a University of Pittsburgh researcher and his collaborators.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Playback: 130-year-old sounds revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 1880s, three inventors—Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, collectively making up the Volta Laboratory Associates—brought together their ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Researchers use CT to recreate Stradivarius violin

Using computed tomography (CT) imaging and advanced manufacturing techniques, a team of experts has created a reproduction of a 1704 Stradivarius violin. Three-dimensional images of the valuable violin and details on how ...

Other Sciences / Other

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

Seeing sound: Team develops noninvasive method to visualise sound propagation

High-performance loudspeaker manufacturers have been able to improve sound quality dramatically over the years, but still face the issue of dead spots.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New genetic evidence confirms coyote migration route to Virginia and hybridization with wolves

Changes in North American ecosystems over the past 150 years have caused coyotes to move from their native habitats in the plains and southwestern deserts of North America to habitats throughout the United States.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Light can detect pre-cancerous colon cells

After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Argonne scientist energizes quest for lost Leonardo da Vinci painting

Perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paintings has never been reprinted in books of his art. Known as the "Battle of Anghiari," it was abandoned and then lost—until a determined Italian engineer ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 35 | with audio podcast


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