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Radiation tolerant products are key as Juno enters Jupiter orbit
The successful Juno spacecraft mission has so far included its orbit insertion at Jupiter, and the mission will soon be turning towards the data collection phase. After an almost five year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, the spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit.
LG launches Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless mouse
Nordic Semiconductor announces that multinational electronics giant LG Electronics has unveiled its MEB-300 dual-operating optical mouse, simultaneously supporting Bluetooth low energy (previously known as Bluetooth Smart) and 2.4GHz proprietary operation by employing Nordic Semiconductor's award-winning nRF51822 multiprotocol SoC.
Wearable sensors help on the frontline
Most of us will be familiar with the error message ‘No GPS signal’ on our smartphones and satellite navigation systems. We may think loosing our GPS signal is a matter of life and death, but for the military and the emergency services it really could be the difference between life and death.
Sticky nanoparticles help fight cancer
Sticky nanoparticles that deliver drugs precisely to their targets—and then stay there—could play a crucial role in fighting ovarian and uterine cancers. A team of researchers at Yale found that a treatment using bioadhesive nanoparticles loaded with a potent chemotherapy drug proved more effective and less toxic than conventional treatments for gynecological cancer.
Graphene nanoribbons promise to heal spinal injuries
The combination of graphene nanoribbons made with a process developed at Rice University and a common polymer could someday be of critical importance to healing damaged spinal cords in people, according to Rice chemist James Tour. The Tour lab has spent a decade working with graphene nanoribbons, starting with the discovery of a chemical process to "unzip" them from multiwalled carbon nanotubes, as revealed in a Nature paper in 2009.
3R creative minds win first ever MIT ‘Hacking Medicine’ event
Ireland’s first world renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ‘Hacking Medicine’ event took place at DCU Alpha (Dublin City University’s Innovation Campus), over the weekend, seeking to uncover treatment outcomes for patients.
FRAC-N Phase-Locked Loop suited for commercial space applications
The founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, Peregrine Semiconductor Group and e2v have introduced the PE97640, an ultra-low phase noise FRAC-N Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) for commercial space applications.
Learn from the experts at the Distributed Robotic Control seminar
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is organising a seminar about Distributed Robotic Control in Stavanger, Norway on 12th October. All architects, project managers, engineers, and developers are invited to register for the seminar.
4G modules donated to healthcare initiative
500 4G modules have been donated to Norwegian company, No Isolation, by u-blox, as a part of an on-going Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. No Isolation is a connected healthcare start-up, pioneering an avatar for children with long term illnesses who have to stay in hospital or at home over an extended period of time.
As commercial drones continue to grow, so do the risks
Drones have the potential to become a multi-billion dollar business, whether they are used commercially for industrial inspections, aerial photography, border patrol, emergency deliveries and crop surveys or recreationally by millions. However, a number of safety concerns are rising as more and more drones enter the skies.