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Medical Engineering

High-Speed Cutting Innovations in Medical Engineering

Meticulous machining and perfect surfaces are the primary prerequisites placed on the process chain involved in the machining of medical implants and…

Corporate News

Linde provides Jülich Research Centre with successful cool-down service and helium recovery for world’s largest MRI magnet

The 5-day cool down, which took place in September was part of a project named 9komma4 after the giant magnet’s field intensity of 9.4 Tesla. The magnet will…

Information Technology

Semantic Desktop: Bridging Data for the Semantic Web

Annotating information with semantic data so that its meaning is understood by machines as well as humans has been heralded as the next evolution of the…

Medical Engineering

Pooled Data Advances Cervical Cancer Treatment Innovations

Half of all the 60,000 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in Europe this year will prove to be incurable and result in the patient’s death, and a similar…

Information Technology

New Collective Solutions for Satellite Internet Access

Plugging the gaps in broadband internet access via two-way satellite is not a new idea, but to date there have been relatively few examples of successful…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Faster Chip-Making: Unveiling Mask-Less Lithography Benefits

Mask-less lithography (ML2) promises to rapidly reduce the costs and production times associated with low-volume device manufacture and prototyping. A mask is…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SMEs make Europe’s innovation clock tick

The semiconductor industry is the clock that beats the rhythms of the Information Age. Its revolutions are marked in 18-month cycles and its ticks herald every…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Unlocking Terahertz Waves: Bridging Light and Radio Spectrum

Terahertz waves occupy the part of the spectrum between light and radio, specifically between infrared and millimetre waves. With wavelengths of 0.1-1mm, THz…

Environmental Conservation

Ecological Insights: African Cities’ Environmental Impact

Joy Clancy from the University of Twente has reviewed the problem in the current issue of the African Journal of Ecology. She says “A hundred years ago 95% of…

Medical Engineering

Lab-on-a-Chip Innovations: Faster Results in Surgery Labs

Today, anybody getting tests done in a GP’s surgery or hospital outpatients will usually have to wait several days before getting any results.Using current…

Science Education

DFG Launches Ten New Research Centres on Disease Origins

Among other things, the new Collaborative Research Centres will study the origins of diseases caused by viruses and bacteria, scarring of the liver and…

Health & Medicine

New Depression Test Uses Risk Algorithm From UCL Research

The risk algorithm, developed by a team led by UCL Professors Michael King and Irwin Nazareth, was tested in 6,000 people visiting their family doctor in six…

Health & Medicine

Second trimester abortion: women’s health and public policy

This issue of Reproductive Health Matters grew out of a conference on second trimester abortion convened in London in 2007 by the International Consortium on…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Identifies Link between Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers in Healthy Adults

A group of scientists and physicians from the University of Washington and Puget Sound Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System in Seattle, in collaboration with…

Environmental Conservation

Sun Cycle Insights: Predicting Rainfall Fluctuations

According to a study in Geographical Research published by Wiley-Blackwell, the droughts are related to the solar magnetic phases and not the greenhouse…

Machine Engineering

Ultrasonic Transducer Enhances Liquid Level Measurement in Corrosive Environments

This new material type improves the chemical compatibility of the ST-H transducer, offering more options for wet well, chemical storage, and process vessel…

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