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Studies of human evolution typically look at spans of thousands of years -- the length of time it often takes various mutations to take hold and become noticeable. Evolution is more dynamic than that though; it's an ongo...

Product Announcement The GTL-BGA-6007 socket is designed for 35x35 mm package size and operates at bandwidths up to 75GHz with less than 1dB of insertion loss ... Contributed Author: Ironwood Electronics

News PupilScreen can detect changes in a pupil's response to light using a smartphone's video camera and deep learning tools -- a type of artificial intelligence ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Neurology

News The reason for the recall? The devices can be remotely "hacked" to increase activity or reduce battery life ... Contributed Author: James H. Hamlyn-Harris, The Conversation Topics: Implantables

News The stretchable conductive ink is made of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), a flexible plastic that is mixed with silver flakes. Both pure TPU and silver-TPU inks are printed to create the devices' underlying soft s...

News Now researchers report in the journal ACS Nano the development of a new portable allergen-detection system -- including a keychain analyzer -- that could help prevent trips to the emergency room ... Contributed Auth...

A seemingly brain-dead young man makes a startling recovery, and a neuroscientist tries to find out why.

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Strong molecular bonds between antibodies and biological gels, like mucus, aren't necessary to catch pathogens as was previously thought, according to new research from the U...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that opioid prescription use increased significantly between 1999 and 2014, and that...

(Uppsala University) Preschool children in joint physical custody have less psychological symptoms than those who live mostly or only with one parent after a separation. In a new study of 3,656 children in Sweden, resear...

(American Geriatrics Society) Frailty tends to become more of a challenge as we age, but in some studies a small number of frail older adults became stronger and less frail as they aged. A team of researchers decided to ...

(Bielefeld University) At roughly €3.7 million, the European Commission has now confirmed funding for a new program in physics and biomedicine. Fourteen young scientists will be studying healthy aging under the microsc...

(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) The alcohol industry (AI) is misrepresenting evidence about the alcohol-related risk of cancer with activities that have parallels with those of the tobacco industry, accord...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A five-year effort across the Johns Hopkins Health System to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions and improve patient care has also resulted in an annual cost savings of more than $2 million, re...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a 'cloud' of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan, children living nearby who likely breathed in the ash...

(Drexel University) A researcher from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute received a $10 million Autism Centers of Excellence grant from the NIH to look into how early detection and treatment efforts lead to better outcomes...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Ever since the unexpected results of the 2016 presidential election, political analysts have sought to understand what factors played into voters' decision making. Now, a new study ...

(Association for Psychological Science) Positive emotions are often seen as critical aspects of healthy living, but new research suggests that the link between emotion and health outcomes may vary by cultural context. Th...

(The Wistar Institute) Wistar scientists have described a correlation between a key melanoma signaling pathway and a novel class of drugs being tested in the clinic as adjuvant therapy for advanced melanoma, providing us...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Intermittent electrical stimulation of an area deep inside the brain that degenerates in Alzheimer's appears to improve working memory, scientists report.Conversely, con...

(Indiana University) The first study to examine antidepressant use and depressive symptoms after an ICU stay, has found that even if prescribed antidepressants, a significant percentage -- about a third -- had symptoms o...

(Northwell Health) A plant-based, Mediterranean-style diet has been shown to provide the same medical benefits for treating laryngopharyngeal reflux as popular reflux medications. This is according to a study published t...