Doctors are typically conservative about new technologies, and often skeptical when engineers promise that their gear will revolutionize health care. But when pediatrician Amy Paller heard a conference talk about flexible, wireless, stick-on biosensors that could be used on infants, her first thought was: “Wow.” “I thought, this could be transformative to medical care for babies,” says […]
Illustration: Erik Vrielink We’re used to thinking of computer processors as orderly machines that proceed from one simple instruction to the next with complete regularity. But the truth is, that for decades now, they’ve been doing their tasks out of order and just guessing at what should come next. They’re very good at it, of […]
Feb. 28, 2019 WASHINGTON – In light of the many costs generated by child poverty for the United States, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides evidence-based policy and program packages that could cut the child poverty rate by as much as 50 percent while at the same time […]
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Photo: SCG Chemicals Solar Float: This 1-megawatt installation in a Thai reservoir owned by SCG Chemicals was the company’s first floating solar farm. Solar farms take up land, which is especially precious in areas with dense populations—and those areas need renewable power most. To solve this paradox, populous countries short on land have started to […]
By some estimates, persistent winds a half kilometer or more up in the air represent 1800 terawatts of near-nonstop, 100-percent renewable power that’s available day and night and in most weather conditions. The planet’s total electric power usage, by contrast, is some 18 terawatts, making it at least theoretically possible to extract all the power that […]
UltraDevelop 2 embedded analytics software suite beta testing nowEMBEDDED WORLD, NÜRNBERG, GERMANY and CAMBRIDGE, UK – 26 February 2019 UltraSoC today announced that its UltraDevelop 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is now available for beta testing and is being shipped to qualified lead customers. The new IDE will be publicly demonstrated for the first time […]
Versotrac’s modularised components can be disassembled into smaller units, hand-carried into confined or remote spaces and then reassembled in minutes. No tools are required. “This modular tractor system recognises the portability needs of ship, barge, offshore, wind tower and structural steel applications. Versotrac is a truly modular welding tractor, allowing users to take it anywhere […]
All the amazing carbon-nanotube logic circuits we’ve heard about over the years have a dirty secret: Some of those nanotubes are metallic rather than the semiconducting type that’s wanted. This tiny fraction of bad tubes is no big deal for logic circuits. They add a bit of noise, but nothing the digital nature of logic […]
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