(University of Houston) University of Houston Law Center Professors Jim Hawkins and Jessica L. Roberts call for stronger consumer safeguards to protect the privacy of personal information collected online by health-related companies.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uoh-ulc021320.php
A team of mechanical engineers investigating a revolutionary kind of micro-switch has found another application for its ongoing research.
Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200212150132.htm
(Trinity College Dublin) Bioengineers from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have developed a prototype patch that does the same job as crucial aspects of heart tissue. Their work essentially takes us one step closer to being able to mend a broken heart.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/tcd-mab021320.php
(University of Lincoln) A new smartphone app to tackle pests destroying crops has been developed — and it could soon help farmers whose lands are being decimated by swarms of locusts, something the UN has called for ‘rapid action’ action on.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uol-ftt021320.php
(University of South Australia) A pilot study undertaken by researchers from the University of South Australia at Adelaide Zoo, has developed a new way to undertake basic health checks of exotic wildlife using a digital camera, saving them the stress of an anaesthetic.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uosa-isw021220.php
(University of Technology Sydney) Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a cost-effective and practical method to protect pipelines and keep them operating during significant fault rupture incidents and large ground movements.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uots-ppd021220.php
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort spent by human editors who now do the task manually.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/miot-asc021220.php
(U.S. Army Research Laboratory) Warfighters on the battlefield often rely on machines, vehicles and other technologies with rotating parts to complete their mission. Army researchers have devised a new method of testing for a major factor in equipment failure and breakdown in order to ensure that those tools meet the proper standard of quality.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uarl-ard021220.php
(Chalmers University of Technology) Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, recently completed a 5-year research project looking at how to make fibre optic communications systems more energy efficient. Among their proposals are smart, error-correcting data chip circuits, which they refined to be 10 times less energy consumptive. The project has yielded several scientific articles, in publications including Nature Communications.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/cuot-mti021220.php
(University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center) An innovative — and inexpensive — technique targets mosquito larvae where they live.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uonm-tab021220.php