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News Last year, every time someone paid $11 for Netflix through an iPhone app, Apple pocketed as much as $3.30. Multiply that by every charge made through iPhone apps and you can see why Netflix and other companies are f...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A qualitative study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health yielded nine patient-driven recommendations across circumstances ...

News Electronic devices such as transistors are getting smaller and will soon hit the limits of conventional performance based on electrical currents... Contributed Author: Holly Ober, University of California - Riversid...

Scientists at Rockefeller University claim they've pinpointed a protein in the ear that acts as a sort of molecular gatekeeper, helping convert soundwaves into the electrical signals that our brains interpret as sound. T...

Product Announcement Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer of differentiated specialty chemicals, announced the introduction of a new RIMLINE HC+ PU resin system that offers significant benefits for automotive inte...

News Researchers have developed an easy-to-use, tunable biosensor tailored for the terahertz range. Images of mouse organs obtained using the new device verify that the sensor is capable of distinguishing between differe...

News Researchers are exploring how robots persuade and build trust with humans. The research could guide the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the next generation of socially assistive robots to aid in healt...

News Canadian researchers, working in partnership with Brazilian colleagues, have developed 13 bioluminescence sensors for use in testing the effectiveness of new medical drugs in the laboratory... Contributed Author: FA...

News A new, versatile plastic-composite sensor can detect tiny amounts of water. The 3d printable material, developed by a Spanish-Israeli team of scientists, is cheap, flexible and non-toxic and changes its colour from ...

News The advent of data science, wireless connectivity and sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) has raised the prospects for digital automation, smart hospital design and the home healt...

Blog Power is central to virtually every application across a variety of industries. More importantly, powering devices to make the run more efficiently is the goal for companies in the power market. For more than 30 yea...

Product Announcement DELO, one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial adhesives for automotive, consumer and industrial electronics applications, has developed an encapsulant with very high resistance to medi...

News Cities could ease congestion and improve safety during snowstorms by tweaking the timing of traffic lights to take road conditions into account. Researchers at the University of Waterloo collected data and ran compu...

News To enable the study of renal reabsorption outside the human body, researchers created a 3D vascularized proximal tubule model in which independently perfusable tubules and blood vessels are printed adjacent to one a...

Blog Power management ICs or PMICs are the unsung heroes behind sleek smartphones, cars with advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and the highly-diverse Internet of Things (IoT) designs. And these power companions....

News A computerized order set may help reduce the persistent problem of overmonitoring hospitalized patients, according to a study published in American Journal of Critical Care... Contributed Author: American Associatio...

News The successful Engineering Newcomer design competition starts its sixth round. The competition is once again in search of the best projects in engineering and design among pupils and students... Contributed Author: ...

News Designed with children in mind, the Audio Bracelet for Blind Interactions (ABBI) is a device that can be worn on a child's wrist that provides extra feedback for the visually impaired... Staff Author: Tierney King T...

News OrganOx, a company focused on organ preservation, has recently signed a five-year manufacturing contract with ITL Group for their portable, medical device metra®, a Normothermic Perfusion System... Staff Author: Ti...

Videos DRR USA has already designed gas-powered all-terrain vehicles, but now they're moving on to much stealthier vehicles with the Stealth Electric ATV... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Product Design and Developme...

News The biotechnology market is one of the biggest industries in the world. However, despite being the largest sector globally, there are still various segments that haven't been tapped into, presenting opportunities fo...

(University of Montreal) Montreal research team unravels an adaptive mechanism involved in controlling insulin action, showing that glucagon plays a crucial part in it and can thus be a protective asset.