VitalSense(R) - Wireless vital signs monitoring
...sule about the size of a multi-vitamin. Jonah only weighs 1.6 grams.) Once activated and swallowed, transmission begins immediately. Data are transmitted telemetrically to the VitalSense Monitor, which can be worn in a waist pack or slipped into a pocket. The mean transit time for the capsules is 2.0 1.5 da...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...also found a way to build a mass spectrometer that weighs about 18 kilograms (40 pounds), which means it can be carried to the sample, rather than forcing investigators to bring the sample to it. "This backpack-size device will be useful for field analysis of chemicals, filling a need in airport bagga...Tiny paddle oscillator senses the mass of a virus
...n, light one. A single one of these silicon paddle weighs about 1.2 picograms, and vibrates at frequencies i... of 10 megaHertz. The virus used in the experiment weighs about 1.5 femtograms. (A picogram is 1/1,000,000,000,000th of a gram, and a femtogram is 1/1000th of...The giant eagle of Middle Earth
...le" from Australia and New Guinea, which typically weighs under 1 kg. "Even more striking was how closely genetically related the two eagle species were. We estimate that their common ancestor lived less than a million years ago. It means an eagle arrived in New Zealand and increased in weight by 10-15 t...Ancient DNA helps solve the legend of giant eagles
...gle from Australia and New Guinea, which typically weighs under two pounds. "Even more striking was how closely related genetically the two species were. We estimate that their common ancestor lived less than a million years ago. It means that an eagle arrived in New Zealand and increased in weight by 10 to...New monkey species name to be auctioned
...ew monkey except that it stands about a foot tall, weighs two pounds and likes fruit. In the morning pairs of them gather and "duet," calling back and forth while clutching each other in what resembles a human embrace....Scientists disprove two tenets of common leukemia
... cell production. Heavy water is simply water that weighs more at the molecular level than normal. Among its many uses in the body, water gets incorporated into everyone's DNA. When a cell divides into two, the new cell gets an exact copy of the DNA from the original cell, so the incorporated heavy water se...Brain region learns to anticipate risk, provides early warnings. suggests new study in Science
...g system -- one that monitors environmental cues, weighs possible consequences and helps us adjust our behavior to avoid dangerous situations. "Our brains are better at picking up subtle warning signs than we previously thought," said Joshua Brown, Ph.D., a research associate in psychology in Arts & Scienc...Vampire bats keep out of trouble by running
...ecause when you feed on the hoof of an animal that weighs 14,000 times more than you do, it's dangerous." Also, there are and always have been a variety of predators in the Western Hemisphere environment. In contrast, Riskin says, the bats and birds of New Zealand had no predators to keep them flying. Many ...Positive air pressure chamber started with patients quickly after surgery
...itational pull. The Orthopaedics Surgery resident weighs 240 pounds, but the scale on the treadmill only senses 40 of them, thanks to the buoyancy created by the chamber's positive air pressure. Moon's gravity is one-sixth of Earth's gravity. UCSD Orthopaedics Surgery professor Alan Hargens, co-inventor o...Ancient DNA confirms single origin of Malagasy primates
...ed to the largest living lemur, Indri indri, which weighs in at fewer than 15 to 17 pounds. "The most important conclusion to be drawn from our study is that the phylogenetic placement of subfossil lemurs adds additional support to the hypothesis that non-human primates colonized Madagascar only once," Yod...Walk slowly for weight loss, according to University of Colorado study
...o 40. A 5-foot 4-inch tall woman with a BMI of 30 weighs about 175 pounds, while a 6-foot man with a BMI of 30 weighs about 225 pounds. The researchers measured each subject's body composition using an instrument know...World-record magnet to pull in scientific breakthroughs
...erconducting magnet, which stands 16 feet tall and weighs more than 15 tons, was no overnight accomplishment. A team of engineers based at the magnet lab worked for 13 years to develop, design, manufacture and test it at the laboratory. Several outside companies, including Intermagnetics General Corporation...Scientists develop 'clever' artificial hand
... is only 400g (even lighter that a real hand which weighs on average 500g). They built the Remedi-Hand in three parts the three middle fingers are very similar in size and movement so they made those identical. The pinky is a smaller version of the same. Each of these four fingers are made up of a motor at...Winners of 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...guage," including the amusing image that a mammoth weighs more than 230 fourth graders. Carney, who wrote her story while working as an intern for Scholastic publications after completing a master's degree in biomedical journalism at New York University, also told her readers that many questions remain unan...Marine biology mystery solved: Function of 'unicorn' whale's 8-foot tooth discovered
... The narwhal isusually 13 to 15 feet in length and weighs between 2,200 and 3,500 pounds.Its natural habitat is the Atlantic portion of the Arctic Ocean,concentrating in the Canadian High Arctic: Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, andnorthern Hudson Bay. It is also found in less numbers in the Greenland Sea,extendin...Mars meteorite similar to bacteria-etched earth rocks
...dated the igneous rock fragment from Nakhla which weighs about 20 pounds at 1.3 billion years in age. They believe that the rock was exposed to water about 600 million years ago, based on the age of clay found inside the rocks. "It is commonly believed that water is a necessary ingredient for life," Fisk ...Winging it bird watching with a difference
...e wings, head andtail. The motion measurement unit weighs less than 50g and providescomplete 3-dimensional information on the orientation, rotation andacceleration of the Eagle. The research group want to fit their motionmeasurements to dynamical models of bird flight to allow them to workout how the Eagle'...New analysis of networks reveals surprise patterns in politics, the web
...id. It also adds a new element to the analysis: it weighs how tightly members are bound to their groups, which can affect their functions or the roles that they play. In the example of political books, Newman looked at 105 political titles recently sold on Amazon.com. The network was compiled by Valdis Kreb...... made by a Canadian company called Lotek Wireless, weighs about 12 grams (less than half an ounce). The researchers recaptured 20 tagged birds at two breeding colonies in New Zealand. The tags recorded the daily activities of each bird during part of the breeding season and throughout the migration to the N...