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News Researchers at Penn Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago developed a process that partially recreates the bone growth process that occurs before birth... Contributed Author: University of Pennsylvania ...

(Credit: DEREVYA/Shutterstock) Plastics are everywhere, from our phones to our cars to our utensils. Now researchers find they're inside our bodies as well. Americans consume more than 70,000 microplastic particles every...

News A new study has uncovered an increased risk of behavioral problems in children of mothers with epilepsy who took common antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy... Contributed Author: Wiley Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News It was once the stuff of science fiction security, open your eye wide and look into the camera to gain entry to the spaceship flight deck or press a finger tip or palm of your against the pad to access the secret......

News Blind and low-vision visitors have a new way to enjoy the restaurants, breweries, shops and other destinations in Chula Vista's Third Avenue Village. The City of Chula Vista has partnered with the Third Avenue... Co...

News MIT researchers have developed a novel "photonic" chip that uses light instead of electricity -- and consumes relatively little power in the process. The chip could be used to process massive neural networks... Cont...

News Weather can be an unrelenting force and infamously fickle. Severe weather can adversely affect the safety of aircrew and Airmen working in the elements. Fortunately, advanced radars with weather forecasting... Contr...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) New research from Tel Aviv University may lead to the early detection of Parkinson's disease, which can lead to treatment that has the potential to significantly delay the progre...

News Over the last several decades, extreme heat events around the world--particularly in the American Southwest--have gotten hotter, occurred more frequently, and lasted longer. These trends... Contributed Author: Deser...

News Proof that a new ability to grow thin films of an important class of materials called complex oxides will, for the first time, make these materials commercially feasible, according to Penn State materials scientists...

News The 35-m deep space antenna in New Norcia, Western Australia, is being looked after by a new team, led for the first time by a female site manager, Suzy Jackson. The New Norcia station is key to communicating... Con...

News The city of Amsterdam envisions a future where fleets of autonomous boats cruise its many canals to transport goods and people, collect trash, or self-assemble into floating stages and bridges. To further that visio...

News By adding one more layer of atoms to already infinitesimally small semiconductors, a next-level generation of electrical devices becomes possible. This work to build better and faster electronics is well underway......

Blog Rapid advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) are accelerating its adoption across the industrial realm. While the number of active IoT devices as of 2018 was about 7 billion, it's estimated to reach 22 billion...

News In Back to the Future II (1989), fingerprints are used to lock and unlock doors. It's a benign technology, apart from the rise of "thumb bandits" who amputate thumbs. Gattaca (1997) envisages a bleaker future... Con...

Blog TinkerENG is an online, reality-based video series that follows product ideas from original concept to completion. Season 1 saw some interesting ideas, and even led to a licensing deal with Edison Nation for... Staf...

News Getting to your destination has never been easier, thanks to a number of popular global positioning systems (GPS) -based navigation apps available for download on smart devices. In fact, using these apps has... Cont...

News In a landmark study, scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute discovered what makes white blood cell counts spike in individuals who have high cholesterol, possibly leading to new... Contributed Author: Ho...

News Researchers funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) have shown that heart 'patches' grown in the lab are safe to move on to trials in people with hearts damaged after a heart attack, in research presented at th...

News Imagine a refrigerator so cold it could turn atoms into their quantum states, giving them unique properties that defy the rules of classical physics. In a paper published in Physical Review Applied... Contributed Au...

(Wiley) Increasing sleep duration may help reduce cardiometabolic risk -- or the risk of heart disease and metabolic disorders -- in individuals who do not get enough sleep, according to an analysis of all published stud...

(Wiley) A new Epilepsia study has uncovered an increased risk of behavioral problems in children of mothers with epilepsy who took common antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy.