'Slowly flapping its orange and black wings, a monarch butterfly sips liquid from a patch of mud. Its proboscis the mouthpart that sucks up liquids grazes the damp soil. For years, biologists knew that butterflies drew liquids up from surfaces ...'

'Spintronics holds promise for new types of devices for information processing and data storage, with ones and zeros being stored in the spin state of electrons as well as their electric charge. Such devices could be faster and more energy efficient than ...'

'The discoveries and inventions made until today are based on two aspects. The first one is made on a purpose, most often to fulfil a need. The second one is rather a quite interesting one, that is, accidental discoveries and ...'

'Over the last few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the availability and application of tests that use ionizing radiation to take images of the body. These tests include computed tomography, or CT, scans and nuclear medicine exams that ...'

'20/20 Imaging, a leader in small market imaging with nearly 4,500 installations across the country, announced the FDA approval of its HF PXS-710 digital x-ray system. Targeted more specifically to the podiatry market, this higher-frequency system offers ...'

'Radiopaque Solutions, Inc., the world leader in x-ray visible materials technology, has released a new High Definition x-ray visible coating for medical device use. The biocompatible radiopaque coating material is in widespread use as the base material ...'

'X-ray phase-contrast imaging is a method that uses the refraction of X-rays through a specimen instead of attenuation resulting from absorption. The images produced with this method are often of much higher quality than those based on absorption. The ...'

'Hospitals are now able to address their interventional cardiology needs with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.'s newest X-ray system, the Infinix™ Essential. As healthcare reform challenges hospitals to do more with less, the Infinix Essential is an ...'

'Shimadzu Medical Systems USA, announced today an agreement with Konica Minolta Medical Imaging to expand the availability of the AeroDR Portable Wireless solution to the advanced MobileArt portable X-ray systems. The new wireless mobile imaging solution ...'

'An imaging technique used in medicine could help detect hidden nuclear material, according to the results of a computer simulation reported this week in the Journal of Applied Physics1. The work suggests a way to improve efforts to stem illegal transport ...'