New 'electronic skin' for prosthetics, robotics detects pressure from different directions
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2014 -
Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so we can tighten our grip.
For the first time, scientists report the development of a stretchable "electronic skin" closely modeled after our own that can detect not just pressure, but also what direction it's coming from. The study on the advance, which could have application ...
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China November industrial output at three-month low
Beijing (AFP) Dec 12, 2014 -
China's industrial output expanded at its slowest pace in three months in November, official data showed Friday, with other key indicators also pointing to weakness in the world's second-largest economy.
Industrial production, which measures output at factories, workshops and mines, rose 7.2 percent year-on-year last month, the weakest since August's 6.9 percent, data from the National Burea ...
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Creating Nuclear Safety Efficiency Rating for Member States Useless
Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Dec 12, 2014 -
The creation of a ranking system, to measure the efficiency of nuclear safety infrastructure for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member states is useless, the organizations's deputy head told Sputnik News Agency Thursday.
"It is not helpful or useful for nuclear safety and nuclear security to establish such a ranking," IAEA Deputy Director General Denis Flory told Sputnik.
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Huawei Makes Largest 12-Month Gains in the Global PV Inverter Market
El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2014 -
According to the latest "PV Inverter Market Tracker" report from the Power and Energy service of IHS Technology, SMA, ABB, and Omron lead global photovoltaic (PV) inverter market-share rankings; however, over the first three quarters of this year, Chinese telecommunications company, Huawei, made the largest gain in global market share, with just over 2 percentage points growth.
"Global pho ...
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Early adoption of robotic surgery leads to organ preservation for kidney cancer patients
New York NY (SPX) Dec 12, 2014 -
Patients with operable kidney cancers were more likely to have a partial nephrectomy - the recommended treatment for localized tumors - when treated in hospitals that were early adopters of robotic surgery, according to a new study.
Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere, publishing online in the journal Medical Care, report that by 2008, hospitals that had adopted rob ...
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French Companies Interested in Expanding Czech Nuclear Program
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 10, 2014 -
French energy companies are interested in developing the Czech's nuclear program, according to country's Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
Dyring his visit to Prague on Tuesday, Valls told a Czech-French business forum that state-controlled companies such as utility Electricite de France and nuclear engineering giant Areva "are ready to react to the decision" to expand the country's nuclear ene ...
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New form of ice could help explore exciting avenues for energy production and storage
Grenoble, France (SPX) Dec 12, 2014 -
Clathrates are now known to store enormous quantities of methane and other gases in the permafrost as well as in vast sediment layers hundreds of metres deep at the bottom of the ocean floor. Their potential decomposition could therefore have significant consequences for our planet, making an improved understanding of their properties a key priority.
In a paper published in Nature this wee ...
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