Proscia, the digital and computational pathology solutions provider, and Datavant, which securely connects organizations with health data, have announced a partnership that will provide life sciences companies with digitized pathology data to power the development of novel therapeutics and diagnostics. The partnership brings together Datavant’s privacy-preserving connectivity technology and the largest U.S. health data ecosystem…
Rubber material holds key to long-lasting, safer EV batteries
by Georgia Institute of Technology For electric vehicles (EVs) to become mainstream, they need cost-effective, safer, longer-lasting batteries that won’t explode during use or harm the environment. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology may have found a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries made from a common material: rubber. Elastomers, or synthetic rubbers, are…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Spectrally Efficient Digital Logic
Spectrally Efficient Digital Logic (SEDL), designed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is a set of digital logic building block families that can reduce overall product development costs by operating with intrinsically low EMI emissions. Lower EMI emissions can simplify PCB design and increase the likelihood of passing an EMI test on the first attempt. Low EMI…
GSSI ground penetrating radar equipment used in Mount Everest expedition
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment manufacturer GSSI’s SIR 4000 high-performance GPR system was used by Nepali surveyors and mountaineers who climbed to the top of Mount Everest as part of an expedition to establish the true height of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. Nepali surveyors and Sherpa guides set up a GPS antenna to…
UC Riverside astrophysicist on Webb: Will it save future Earth?
By Jules Bernstein The James Webb Space Telescope, the most complex and expensive space laboratory ever created, is less than two weeks away from its ultimate destination a million miles from Earth. Once it arrives, it will send information about parts of space and time never seen before. It will also send previously unattainable information…
JEOL’s new Scanning Electron Microscope has “Simple SEM” automation and live elemental and 3D Analysis
JEOL, developer of cutting-edge electron microscopes for materials characterization and analysis, introduces its latest SEM, the JSM-IT510. This new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) features productivity-enhancing automation, including “Simple SEM” automated imaging, automated montaging (both image and EDS map) and live EDS analysis (spectrum and map). The IT510 is the successor to the popular JEOL IT500…
R&D 100 winner of the day: ELCRES HTV150 Dielectric Film
ELCRES HTV150 film, from SABIC and Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., is the first engineering thermoplastic high-voltage, high-temperature film for DC link power capacitors capable of high energy densities over long periods of time without significant current leakage or charge loss. The film exhibits stable performance and offers excellent handling through metallization and capacitor building processes. ELCRES…
R&D 100 Winner of the Day: Model 261 Deep Ultraviolet Diode Laser Module
Because of their excessive size, weight, power, cost and environmental sensitivity, continuous wave deep ultraviolet lasers have long been exclusively laboratory devices. The Model 261, from UVC Photonics, is an entirely new approach to deep ultraviolet lasers. Several years of development has resulted in a rugged, compact and low-cost module suitable for integration into fixed,…
An ‘Organic’ movement for materials
By Markus Buehler, McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT When we talk about advances in materials science, the focus is typically on the materials themselves: how strong we can make this fabric, how light we can make the construction materials, how cheap we can manufacture better products than we have now. But the benefits of…
R&D 100 Winner of the Day: PPG ENVIROCRON Extreme Protection Thermally Conductive Dielectric Powder Coatings
PPG has pioneered dielectric powder for electric vehicles to enhance their safety. ENVIROCRON Extreme Protection Thermally Conductive Dielectric Powder Coating is engineered to provide thermal conductivity in a dielectric material to enhance safety and performance. Used instead of film and/or tape solutions, this product supports high throughput and automated application. ENVIROCRON enables electric vehicle manufacturers…
ABB seeks partners to join energy efficiency movement
Last month, ABB hosted an exclusive virtual roundtable discussion to give members of the media an opportunity to learn more and ask questions about the energy efficiency movement being championed by the company. The event explored the practical benefits and data of integrating high-efficiency solutions into existing industrial and commercial infrastructure to affordably and immediately…
R&D winner of the day: Small World AI
LocationMind and the University of Tokyo’s Small World AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) technologies integration system, has provided insights in various fields, especially for the COVID-19 situation in Japan. GeoSpatial data has played an important role in estimating the threats and impact of the pandemic and further aided stakeholders in swift decision-making. In light of…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Timken Split Tapered Roller Bearing for Mainshaft
The Timken Split Tapered Roller Bearing for Mainshaft is designed for uptower installation in wind turbine nacelles. Non-split solid ring bearings require expensive ground-based cranes for bearing replacement. The Timken product has two halves that are installed using smaller uptower cranes and no blade removal, dramatically reducing costs and downtime. Most wind turbines operate under…
Creating invisibility with superconducting materials
Invisibility devices may soon no longer be the stuff of science fiction. A new study published in the De Gruyter journal Nanophotonics by lead authors Huanyang Chen at Xiamen University, China, and Qiaoliang Bao, suggests the use of the material Molybdenum Trioxide (α-MoO3) to replace expensive and difficult to produce metamaterials in the emerging technology…
Improved image quality and resolution for all ZEISS laser scanning microscopes
ZEISS has recently introduced two new software functionalities with ZEISS LSM Plus and ZEISS Airyscan Joint Deconvolution, users achieve better results in confocal microscopy. Maximizing recovery requires improvements in efficiency Laser scanning microscopes (LSMs) are the multifunctional high-end microscopes in every imaging facility, valued as much for their instant, high-quality imaging of optical sections as…
LLNL establishes AI Innovation Incubator to advance artificial intelligence for applied science
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has established the AI Innovation Incubator (AI3), a collaborative hub aimed at uniting experts in artificial intelligence (AI) from LLNL, industry and academia to advance AI for large-scale scientific and commercial applications. LLNL has entered into new memoranda of understanding with Google, IBM and NVIDIA, with plans to use the…
Top-10 areas of amazing science at Brookhaven Lab in 2021
By Karen McNulty Walsh and Stephanie Kossman, Brookhaven National Laboratory Research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory spans scales from the cosmic to subatomic, advancing our understanding of the world around and within us. Looking for discoveries that spark transformational technologies? Brookhaven has those, too! Here’s the 2021 recap of important…
R&D 100 winner of the day: SIRIUS XHS
SIRIUS XHS, developed by Dewesoft d.o.o., is a high-speed data acquisition system with the new Hybrid ADC technology capable of high-bandwidth transient recording and very high-dynamic, alias-free data acquisition. Sirius XHS is the first device with Hybrid ADC technology capable of doing both high bandwidth transient recording and very high dynamic alias-free acquisition, and this…
Biognosys expands agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to advance proteomics
Biognosys, a developer and provider of next-generation proteomics technology and solutions, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, have extended a co-marketing agreement to provide life science researchers with comprehensive mass spectrometry answers to gain deep proteomics insights at a large scale. The agreement leverages the two companies’ complementary capabilities in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Biognosys deploys Thermo Fisher…
Today’s recirculating chillers help labs go green
By Greg Ducharme, Product Director Laird Thermal Systems There are several factors to keep in mind when operating and managing modern laboratories: efficiency, cost management and future-proofing. Green labs provide the blueprint for equipment optimization and environmental compliance, which in turn minimize energy consumption, lower operating costs and set labs up for continued success. Thermal…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Software-defined Augmented Robot Joint (SARJ)
Software-defined Augmented Robot Joint (SARJ), from Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the software-enhanced robot joint as an effective building block for versatile mechatronic applications, enables modular robot arms, autonomous mobile robots and many other potential motion-actuation applications to be developed easier. Moreover, SARJ equipped with a powerful digital twin platform takes care of every aspect…
R&D 100 winner of the day: IS-P4 Separator-free Lithium-ion Battery
NAMI and ATL have developed a separator-free lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology with a breakthrough nanofiber conformal coating on the electrode. The separator affects cell performance and safety. Reports show that the separator layer accounts for 7-10% of the price of the cell and the global demand for separators is expected to be over $1.3 million…
Contipharma launches saliva-based Omicron detecting PCR test in Africa
Contipharma, a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development and marketing of targeted medical solutions, is now making a saliva-based PCR test available across the entire continent of Africa. The test, which was developed by the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium and is CE marked, can detect all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, including Omicron. It…
Biognosys expands co-marketing agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to advance proteomics
Biognosys, a developer and provider of next-generation proteomics technology and solutions, and Thermo Fisher Scientific recently announced they have extended a co-marketing agreement to provide life science researchers with comprehensive mass spectrometry solutions to gain deep proteomics insights at a large scale. The agreement leverages the two companies’ complementary capabilities in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Biognosys…
R&D 100 of the day: Nalu micro-implantable pulse generator (mIPG)
Nalu Medical’s The Nalu mIPG, system is a miniaturized implantable pulse generator (mIPG) for treating chronic pain. The implant is 9 to 27x smaller than the commercially available implantable pulse generators (IPGs) yet delivers treatment outputs similar to larger IPGs but with additional capabilities around advanced waveforms, programming and upgradability. The Nalu mIPG offers the…
























