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(St John's College, University of Cambridge) Female fish can breed a new species if they aren't choosy about who is Mr. Right. Fish will mate with a species outside their own if the male's colouring is attractive enough ...

CUI Inc. announced the addition of six low power, open frame AC-DC power supply series to its VOF product family. The VOF-15C, VOF-30C, VOF-40C, VOF-45C, VOF-60C, and VOF-65C are 15, 30, 40, 45, 60 and 65 W additions to ...

Diodes Incorporated announced an enhanced version of its popular sounder driver for small and portable devices. The PAM8904E delivers higher performance at a lower voltage in a smaller package. Miniature piezo and cerami...

A little toy made in China called the Induction crystal ball uses a pair of coaxial rotors to rise in the air, helicopter-like. It powers the rotors enough to rise for a few seconds, then cuts the power back to gently fl...

TE Connectivity has introduced its new zSFP+ stacked belly-to-belly connectors that are designed to support data rates at both 28G NRZ and 56 Gbps PAM-4. The upright latching feature for zSFP+ stacked belly-to-belly conn...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) While a lab test might be ordered STAT to help save a life, a new study suggests that the STAT test order should rest in peace, and instead the time standard for most cl...

(University of Houston) A newly published report from a University of Houston psychology professor finds that firefighters who struggle with PTSD symptoms, and who think they cannot handle negative emotions, are likely t...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers report a new mechanism for detecting foreign material during early immune responses.

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new Tel Aviv University study finds that a starch-rich breakfast consumed early in the morning coupled with a small dinner could replace insulin injections and other diabetes m...

(CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy) A new study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases found that expansion of HIV treatment eligibility to include those under age 15 led to large and signi...

(Elsevier) According to a new report in The American Journal of Medicine, published by Elsevier, aspirin can be considered an effective and safe option to other, more expensive medications to treat acute migraines as wel...

(Harvard Medical School) DARPA-funded project called STOP PAIN aimed at the design of safer, more effective pain treatments. Research to focus on understanding the biology of pain as a way to transform clinical care, hel...

(Virginia Tech) Much remains unknown about diseases and the way our bodies respond to them, in part because the human genome is the complete DNA assembly that makes each person unique. A Virginia Tech professor and his t...

(Purdue University) While some diets load up on protein and other diets dictate protein sources, it can be hard to know what to consume while managing weight or during weight loss. A new study by Purdue University nutrit...

(University of Chicago Booth School of Business) The current hospital star-rating system used by the US government's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is plagued with numerous flaws, and University of Chicago Boot...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) When they said their wedding vows, many of them promised to stand by one another in sickness and in health. But a new study suggests that as married couples age and develop ch...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)) Scientists at the CNIC and CSIC have identified a function of a protease that could be the future target of drugs to treat inflammatory bowel dise...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study compared the proportion of women with any cognitive, physical, or independent living disability who experienced a miscarriage during the previous 5-year perio...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Morbidity and mortality from prescription and synthetic opioid use and abuse continues to be a U.S. public health issue. In an effort to help curtail this crisis, researchers from B...

(Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University) Bacterial bone infections are quite resistant to antibiotics and require new therapeutic approaches. A team of researchers from Kant Baltic Federal University discovered the abil...

(Florida Atlantic University) Evidence from 13 randomized trials of the treatment of migraine in 4,222 patients and tens of thousands of patients in prevention of recurrent attacks supports the use of high dose aspirin f...

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Researchers from Duke University and HSE University have succeeded in creating artificial tactile perception in monkeys through direct brain stimulation. This bre...