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News Like fishermen, Rice University bioengineers are angling for their daily catch. But their bait, biomolecules in a hydrogel scaffold, lures microscopic stem cells instead of fish... Contributed Author: Rice Universit...

News Every parent knows the frustration of responding to a baby's cries, wondering if it is hungry, wet, tired, in need of a hug, or perhaps even in pain. A group of researchers in USA has devised a new artificial intell...

News A team led by Columbia Engineering has been developing a novel technique that could open up new ways to facilitate targeted drug delivery into the brain and enable drugs to... Contributed Author: Columbia University...

News Scientists from the University of Bonn and the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have shown that artificial intelligence can be used to diagnose rare diseases more efficiently and reliably. A neural network aut...

News Materials scientists in China have an insulator that reproduces the structure of individual polar bear hairs while scaling toward a material composed of many hairs for real-world applications in the... Contributed A...

News A broad class of materials called perovskites is considered one of the most promising avenues for developing new, more efficient solar cells. But the virtually limitless number of possible combinations of these mate...

(Credit: science photo/Shutterstock) When researchers edit genes with CRISPR today, their systems chop a strand of DNA in half before inserting a new gene and allowing a cell's natural healing mechanisms to patch the str...

News Poisonous heavy metals contaminating thousands of sites nationwide threaten to enter the food chain, and there's been no easy way to remove them. An experimental chemical bath and electrochemical filter could now ex...

News Qualcomm's Dean Brenner says 6 GHz, coupled with new synchronized spectrum sharing techniques, can solve connectivity and mobility issues in industrial settings that require faster and more reliable and robust conne...

News A senior executive for Chinese technology giant Huawei said Thursday that he hopes the company's animosity with the United States will be resolved and warned that the U.S. would be shooting itself in the foot if it ...

News The FCC on Thursday voted to allow phone service providers to block unwanted robocalls by default, hoping to diminish the influx of nuisance phone calls American consumers are plagued by on a daily basis. Staff Auth...

News Active duty Army personnel have worse cardiovascular health compared to people of similar ages in the civilian population, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the... Contributed A...

News Researchers at Imperial College in London have developed paper-based electrical gas sensors, called PEGS, which can detect spoilage gases like ammonia and trimethylamine in meat and fish products... Staff Author: Sp...

News A computer's cache is a part of the memory where frequently used items are stored to speed up processing. If you visit the same websites on your phone frequently, for example, your phone might save information... Co...

News Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) cyber security researchers have developed a new attack called "Malboard." Malboard evades several detection products that are intended to continuously verify the user's... Co...

News Are robot baristas the future of South Korea's vibrant coffee culture? Dal.komm Coffee thinks so. The company now has 45 robot-equipped outlets in shopping malls, company cafeterias, schools and an airport... Contri...

News Amazon said Wednesday that it plans to use self-driving drones to deliver packages to shoppers' home in the coming months. The online shopping giant did not give exact timing or say where the drones will be... Contr...

News In a Journal of Internal Medicine study that followed older adults with prediabetes for 12 years, most remained stable or reverted to normal blood sugar levels, and only one-third developed diabetes or died... Contr...

News Scientists from RIKEN and the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with international partners have found a way to significantly reduce the amount of energy required by organic light emitting diodes....

Videos Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight's heat probe, also known as the "mole," digging again on Mars. Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3)...

Videos Welcome to First Look, brought to you by DigiKey and Maxim Integrated. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has put a lot of pressure on embedded electronics designers. These advanced industrial systems... Con...

News Simply driving down the road gives you a sense for the current state of our infrastructure: crumbling and in need of repair. Aside from retrofitting or replacing current infrastructure with new construction and mate...