News tagged with peristaltic motion
Gel undergoes Peristalsis
Aug 18, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (16) |
4
(PhysOrg.com) -- Large or small, machine parts only move when controlled by an external impulse. Biological systems, on the other hand, are capable of autonomous movements that continuously follow their own rhythms and spatial ...
Search results for peristaltic motion
Bees show off the perfect landing
9 hours ago |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Honey bees undergo a sudden transition from speeding aircraft to hovering helicopter as they perform the delicate art of landing on a flower.
BlackBerry e-mail restored for some after outage
11 hours ago |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(AP) -- BlackBerry e-mail service in North America was restored for some users Wednesday morning following its second outage in less than a week.
Controlling the TV with a wave of the hand
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
17 hours ago |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century. The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand.
Nanoscale changes in collagen are a tipoff to bone health
Dec 22, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Using a technique that provides detailed images of nanoscale structures, researchers at the University of Michigan and Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital have discovered changes in the collagen component of bone ...
Physiologic factors linked to image quality of multidetector computed tomography scans
Dec 22, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A large multicenter international trial found that the image quality of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) scans, used for the noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease, can be significantly affected by patient ...
Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix
Dec 22, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
7
(AP) -- A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower ...
Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 22, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (8) |
5
More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...
SPARKy devices helps amputees return to normal lives (w/ Video)
Dec 22, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Arizona State University researchers have developed a prosthetic device that literally puts the spring back into an amputee's step. The ASU scientists have developed and refined SPARKy (for spring ankle with regenerative ...
The next medical frontier: nano-surgery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering professor's nanorobot could be performing non-invasive surgical procedures on patients with tumors within the next decade.
Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines
Dec 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion.
List of search results for peristaltic motion
