Algorithm is 'game-changer' for picking up on insurance fraud
A Queen's University Belfast student has developed software which can detect insurance fraud quickly.
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Chemical sensing chip sniffs out cocaine within minutes
What if you could test for cocaine, opioids and marijuana as quickly as a breathalyzer identifies alcohol?
Quantum dots enable faster, easier photon detection, more secure data
A team of researchers including U of A engineering and physics faculty has developed a new method of detecting single photons, or light particles, using quantum dots.
Doctors may soon be able to see a brain tumor burned away in real time
Some 80,000 Americans will be diagnosed with a brain tumor this year according to the American Brain Tumor Association. Many of them will need major surgery and chemotherapy. Sixteen thousand of them will lose the battle. ...
Will electric vehicles take over the world?
As more people and goods move around the planet, our cars, planes, trains, and ships are having a growing impact on the climate. Transportation now generates almost a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, and in ...
Forget tech's bad bros: Stanford, Berkeley boost female computing grads
More and more women are getting computer science and electrical engineering degrees from the Bay Area's two elite universities, a goal U.S. colleges have been pursuing for decades. But in the midst of the #MeToo era's focus ...
Scientists uncover how to stop cyber intrusions
U.S. Army-funded researchers at the University of California in Los Angles have found a proverbial smoking gun signature of the long sought-after Majorana particle, and the find, they say, could block intruders on sensitive ...
Engineers build smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulator
In 2016, University of California, Berkeley, engineers demonstrated the first implanted, ultrasonic neural dust sensors, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in ...
Very thin film could help manage heat flow in future devices
Purdue University researchers have demonstrated the ability of a thin film to conduct heat on just its surfaces, identifying a potential solution to overheating in electronic devices such as phones and computers.
Atomically thin light-emitting device opens the possibility for 'invisible' displays
UC Berkeley engineers have built a bright-light emitting device that is millimeters wide and fully transparent when turned off. The light emitting material in this device is a monolayer semiconductor, which is just three ...
