If you've ever sprained an ankle or had a stress fracture in your foot or lower leg, you've probably worn an orthopedic walking boot.
Engineering
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(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with members from institutions in Sweden, Argentina and Italy, has discovered fossilized sperm cells embedded in the walls of an ancient cocoon. In their paper published in the journal ...
Today, at SEMICON WEST 2015 (San Francisco), world-leading nano-electronics research center imec and Besi, a global equipment supplier for the semiconductor and electronics industries announced that they have jointly developed ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jul 15, 2015
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The English-speaking receptionist is a vicious-looking dinosaur, and the one speaking Japanese is a female humanoid with blinking lashes. "If you want to check in, push one," the dinosaur says. The visitor still has to punch ...
Robotics
Jul 15, 2015
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Three-dimensional structures of boron nitride might be the right stuff to keep small electronics cool, according to scientists at Rice University.
Nanomaterials
Jul 15, 2015
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One of Western Australia's largest ever crop sequencing trials has provided scientists with evidence that break crops can have a significant impact on weed populations in the longer term.
Ecology
Jul 15, 2015
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"There are large unexplored ocean areas, and there is an enormous amount we do not know about them. We actually know more about the moon than the seafloor," says Steinar Ellefmo, an Associate Professor in NTNU's Department ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2015
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NASA scientists are on a mission to map global soil moisture, and through SciStarter, they're teaming up with citizen scientists to gather valuable data from the ground to complement and validate what is seen from space.
Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2015
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The distinct structural and water-repellant properties of common reeds have been used by man for ages, for example as construction materials and for thatching roofs. How the micro- and nanostructured silica arrangements that ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 15, 2015
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large machines that make bulk measurements of samples down to a literally ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 15, 2015
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