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Biologists in Australia have developed a scanning device to accurately detect how potent a cannabis plant is, well before it's harvested. And no, it's not for selecting the choicest buds to get blasted with.

The FDA has granted clearance to the first AI-powered medical device to assist physicians in detecting all 3 common skin cancers. Providing a more accurate way of identifying skin cancer will enable patients to access necessary treatment more quickly.

​Cosmic rays are raining down over Earth every day, but you’d never know unless you had the right tools. Those tools mostly take the form of bulky, expensive lab equipment, but thanks to an MIT team, you can now build your own detector for US$100 – small enough to take on a plane or the subway.​

CSIRO Australia and its industry partner, Ziltek, have released their self-contained, hand-held hydrocarbon contamination testing device to the US market. Billed as a world first, the RemScam is capable of testing many hundred samples a day, providing data on the spot, within seconds.

UK based-firm TWI has been developing methods for laser tube-cutting for the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. They have now demonstrated a 5 kW fiber laser projector, configured rather like a rifle, that can be wielded by a single person.

Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a handheld diagnostic magnetic resonance spectrometer that can diagnose cancer with nearly 100 percent accuracy in an hour.

Scientists have created a handheld, battery powered plasma flashlight that has been shown to effectively rid skin of bacteria in an instant.

Millipore's Scepter crams cell counting technology found in much larger instruments into a hand-held device the size of an automated pipette.