News articles tagged with 'equipment'
Tests on century-old equipment show how far X-rays have come
— 16 Mar 2011 13:43 | TechnologyResearchers recently tested first-generation x-ray equipment from 1896 and found that it produced radiation doses and exposure times that were vastly higher than those of today's systems,…
Study finds MRSA danger in gyms may be exaggerated
— 4 Mar 2011 15:57 | HealthCommunity gym surfaces do not appear to be reservoirs for MRSA transmission, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official…
Hot embossing glass - to the nearest micrometre
— 3 Jan 2011 17:02 | TechnologyProjectors are getting smaller and smaller. Now that pictures are available in digital format almost everywhere, we need projectors to beam giant photos and films onto walls. Projectors…
Research lays foundation for building on the moon - or anywhere else
— 30 Sep 2010 13:14 | TechnologyThe key to the stability of any building is its foundation, but it is difficult to test some building sites in advance - such as those on the moon. New research from North Carolina…
European and American physicists unite for healthcare
— 21 Aug 2010 07:46 | HealthIn the 1990s, a wave of emigration swept through Russia and Eastern Europe. Hundreds of highly-trained nuclear physicists and engineers left because of the political and economic situation…
Milling and drilling in cyberspace
— 8 Dec 2009 09:53 | TechnologyA trainee carefully clamps a workpiece in a lathe. He must program the machine correctly before he can machine the part. This is a tricky task and the trainee will have to solve a similar…
Nanotech protection
— 14 Oct 2009 11:40 | TechnologyWriting in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Canadian engineers suggest that research is needed into the risks associated with the growing field of…
Ripe pineapple and delicious pork
— 4 Aug 2009 12:28 | TechnologyWhen buying a pineapple, the customer often stands helplessly in front of the supermarket shelf - which one is already ripe? If the fruit is eaten immediately it's often still not sweet…
Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitiser automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
— 1 Aug 2009 17:10 | HealthJohns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower-cubicle-shaped…
Research helps protect against lightning damage
— 6 Feb 2009 12:50 | TechnologyFiring bolts of lightning at expensive electrical equipment is all in a day's work at NEETRAC - the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Centre. The goal for the…