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RFID tags wirelessly provide a wealth of information on products or other items, but they can only be read by dedicated portable devices. That may soon change, however, as a tag-integrated chip and a software update could allow everyday smartphones to … Continue reading Software update and tiny chip could turn phones into full-on RFID readers
After someone has suffered a heart attack, their body replaces the damaged heart muscle tissue with non-beating scar tissue, compromising the heart’s function. A new injectable biomaterial, however, may help the heart heal better.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Biomaterial could travel through the bloodstream to heal damaged hearts
Thanks to the vast distances between objects in our galaxy, astronomers often have to wait months or years to observe how celestial bodies like stars and planets move around each other. Recently though, astrophysicists at Northwestern University and th… Continue reading A year in a day: Ultracool dwarf star system breaks record
Miniature human brains, grown from stem cells and implanted into living mice, have for the first time been shown to respond to things the mice were seeing. The scientists were able to watch the responses in real time thanks to specialized graphene elec… Continue reading Mini human brains implanted in mice respond to light the animals see
Advances in material science and miniaturized electronics have given rise to a promising new breed of wearable patches that could one day measure many metrics of human health, from stress, to glucose levels, to cardiovascular activity. Engineers have l… Continue reading Laser-pulsing skin patch goes deep to uncover signs of cancer
Intestinal glucose levels are a major indicator of overall gastrointestinal health, and the current method of measuring them involves putting a catheter down the patient’s throat. Soon, however, a swallowable “smart pill” could do the job much less int… Continue reading Swallowable sensor transmits live reports on intestinal glucose levels
A pair of newly published studies have reported novel links between fungal microorganisms and cancer. The research reports different types of tumors seem to harbor unique fungal populations, raising the possibility of new ways to diagnose and treat can… Continue reading Discovery of cancer’s fungal fingerprint could predict disease outcomes
Scientists have recently had success in curing mice of a serious type of pneumonia, using what are described as “microrobots.” The bots were actually live algae cells, which carried life-saving medication throughout the rodents’ lungs.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Algae cells pressed into service as pneumonia-treating microrobots
Respiratory ailments such as COVID-19 hamper the body’s ability to draw oxygen from the lungs, which is why patients’ blood oxygen levels often need to be checked. New research now suggests that people could track those levels at home, using their smar… Continue reading Home-use smartphone app could let users check blood oxygen levels
As part of their research into next-generation battery technology, scientists at University of California, San Diego are exploring designs that can function at extreme temperatures, and they’re beginning to make some significant inroads. In their lates… Continue reading New energy-dense lithium-sulfur battery works at extreme temperatures