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(Frontiers) New research shows that children exposed to paternal tobacco smoking before birth are more likely to develop asthma - and that associated changes to immune genes predict the level of risk.Published in Frontie...

News The human body's mechanisms are marvelous, yet they haven't given up all their secrets. In order to truly conquer human disease, it is crucial to understand what happens at the most elementary level. Essential funct...

(Credit: lanatoma/Shutterstock) The microbes that live in and on our bodies are fundamentally involved in our well-being. How they affect our health, though, is largely unknown due to the number of different bacteria tha...

(Credit: PhotoUG/Shutterstock) Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects at least 1.7 percent of 8-year-olds in the U.S., and it can make social communication like talking and interactions with others difficult. Children wi...

News Researchers of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) are developing new materials for solid-state thin-film Li-ion batteries for micro and nanodevices. The first stage of the project was succe...

News Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a new, organic cathode material for lithium batteries. With sulfur at its core, the material is more energy-dense, co...

News According to a market research report, the BRIC diagnostic imaging equipment market is projected to reach $8.3 billion by 2024, up from $5.3 billion in 2019, for a CAGR of 9.2 percent... Contributed Author: Marketsa...

News A study by UCLA psychologists provides strong evidence that a certain region of the brain plays a critical role in memory recall. The research, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, also shows... Contr...

News Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment Alex Beehler doesn't need proof of threats to military and government installations. He is reminded every day. His office sits next to the po...

News A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System has linked long-term use of such drugs--called proton pump... Contributed Author: Was...

News In findings published online by the journal Cell Metabolism, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say their study overcomes major hurdles to unraveling the molecular mysteries of ... Contribu...

News Wearable devices that harvest energy from movement are not a new idea, but a material created at Rice University may make them more practical. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has adapted laser-induced... Contribu...

News The Federal Communications Commission's broadband report is being hammered by critics who say it paints too rosy a picture of high-speed internet availability in the U.S. Contributed Author: Anthony Izaguirre, Assoc...

Blog This is an interesting 'chicken and egg' question and it came to mind when I first heard of Keysight's new 110 GHz oscilloscope last September. Having worked in the test and measurement industry most of my... Contri...

News Using cryo electron microscopy, researchers from the Thomä group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) have identified a new mechanism whereby repair proteins detect and bind to damaged ...

Blog May brought with it a lot of interesting engineering news. For a rundown of the top five ECN stories of the month, check out the list below... Staff Author: Jennifer DeLaOsa Topics: MIL/AERO

News The FCC did not say it would require any spectrum sales from T-Mobile or Sprint, but if the DOJ requires spectrum divestitures for deal approval then Amazon would be interested in buying the airwaves too, according ...

(Loyola University Health System) Grateful for the exceptional care he received from Loyola Medicine cardiologist David Wilber, MD, FAHA, FACC, heart patient Donald Scott and his wife Susan have made a $1.5 million gift ...

News On 15 June, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will follow a different path. An "Inclination Change Maneuver' will put the spacecraft in an altered orbit, enabling it to pick up crucial status... Cont...

News Researchers from Japan have demonstrated that a long-elusive kind of laser diode based on organic semiconductors is indeed possible, paving the way for the further expansion of lasers in applications such as... Cont...

News Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are, so to say, a computer manufacturer's "Lego bricks": electronic components that can be employed in a more flexible way than other computer chips. Even large data... Contrib...

News Google's self-driving vehicle division says it's bringing autonomous trucks to the Phoenix area. Waymo announced Wednesday that its self-driving tractor-trailers will start driving on freeways this week and will... ...