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Wireless 'tooth tattoo' detects harmful bacteria

Using silk strands pulled from cocoons and gold wires thinner than a spider's web, researchers at Princeton University have created a removable tattoo that adheres to dental enamel and could eventually monitor ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Remove software for smartphone can zap photo items (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Swedish company focused on mobile-device imaging technology, Scalado, plans to show object-removal software for the smartphone at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Unique E. coli protein may be not after all

A bacterial protein recently thought to be a unique mechanism for utilizing iron may not be after all. Researchers from the University of Georgia, the Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, the University of Oklahoma and ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Weather conditions could results in cattle heat stress

Cattle producers should be aware that forecasted weather conditions could result in significant heat stress issues in cattle. The US Meat Animal Research Center predicts danger or emergency conditions through most of South ...

Biology / Other

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers aim to stem deaths from arsenic-contaimnated water in the developing world

One in five of all deaths in Bangladesh are caused by drinking water contaminated with arsenic, according to a study published recently in the medical journal The Lancet by an international team of researchers. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

First US surgery to compare NOTES vs. laparoscopy

As part of the only U.S. prospective multicenter clinical trial to compare natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) to laparoscopy, surgeons at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U.S. hopes dams' demolition will let salmon return

They were known as June Hogs -- 100-pound salmon that, when stood on end, were taller than a man.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Laser hair removal: No training required?

Canada needs minimum training standards for laser hair removal operators, as currently anyone, trained or not, can legally operate a laser machine for hair removal in Canada, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical A ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eastern US forests resume decline

After increasing during much of the 20th century, forest cover in the eastern United States in recent decades has resumed its previous decline, according to an exhaustive new analysis published in the April 2010 issue of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Hydra flash memory outperforms other top storage mediums

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although today flash memory is primarily used as a removable storage medium, it's currently becoming more and more appealing for a wider variety of applications. Moving beyond memory cards ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 11 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers quantify benefits of minimally invasive removal of hard-to-reach tumors

A minimally invasive endoscopic procedure holds promise for safely removing large brain tumors from an area at the bottom of the skull, near the sinus cavities, clinical researchers at the Brain Tumor Center at the University ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long-Awaited 'Alex' Android eReader Ready For Pre-Orders

(PhysOrg.com) -- You can preorder the first Alex Reader today... finally! Alex, the first Google Android-powered eReader will ship to preorders in mid-April, five months after its announcement made a huge ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Samsung's New CMOS Imagers Offer High-Performance, HD Capable Solutions for Mobile Phones

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed two new CMOS image sensors - the S5K4E2 and the S5K5CA - for the mobile phone market. Designers and manufacturers of high-end smart phones and slim mobile handsets ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 1

What's in our water?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although America's supply of drinking water is considered among the world's safest, there is an urgent need to develop more stringent regulations to guide how water is monitored for pollutants, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0