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Scientists develop ‘tricorder’ Star Trek technology
Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves - the technology used behind full-body security scanners, at a more efficient and continuous wavelength. Also known as T-waves, the new waves could be used to create medical scanning gadgets and possibly lead to innovations similar to the fictional ‘tricorder’ used in the TV series Star Trek.
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Optical fibre laser technology delivers medicine
Revolutionary laser technology could provide a novel approach to painless diagnosis of serious diseases such as cancer and diabetes, and in vivo analysis of drug efficacy – for a fraction of the price of current laser equipment. Dr Róbert Szipöcs, research fellow at the Research Institute for Solid State Physics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, and his colleague, biologist Dr Attila Kolonics, explain that the FIBERSC2 project is actually two intriguing projects in one
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Technology transfer – A contact sport that gets results
Dr Koen Verhoef, a scientist with a biology background, is manager of the technology transfer office at the Netherlands Cancer Institute as well as a vice-president at the Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP). Here he talks to William Davis about the growing importance of technology transfer and the need for planning
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Next generation of superstars in ‘Dragonfish’ cluster
The most numerous group of young supermassive stars to be observed in our galaxy has been discovered by astronomers. The stars number in their hundreds of thousands and include several hundred blue stars dozens of times heavier than our sun. The light emitted by these newborn stars pushes out and heats the gas that gave them birth, creating a glowing hollow shell a hundred light years wide.