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(Flinders University) The world's most common vision problem myopia or short/near sightedness, which causes damage to the eye and even blindness, just got easier to assess. Progressive research at Flinders University in ...

By Alex Koepsel, IoT Marketing Manager, Silicon Labs If you consider how much digital security has evolved in recent years, it is quite astonishing. Our mindset and social acceptance of what is "secure" has changed drama...

Sianna Semiconductor, an ISO 9001 certified company, today announced that its SZ1101 and SZ1105 fully integrated active clamp flyback (ACF) controllers for designing high-power-density AC/DC power adapters are now fully ...

VFD-SC series VFD/servo cable offers four conductors, available in 16 to 10 AWG gauges, plus a foil-shielded signal pair. The VFD-SC series is the same high-quality cable as the standard VFD-C series; the addition of the...

The Optoelectronics Group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced two new fully integrated proximity sensors designed to increase efficiency and performance in consumer and industrial applications. Featuring an IR emi...

Researchers in Sweden have come up with a way of putting gallium-nitride transistor structures on a silicon-carbide substrate that potentially lowers the ON resistance of power FETs by an order of magnitude below that of...

The DL Series of Digital, Programmable dc Loads, are designed to support the testing requirements for the latest generation of off-line power supplies, dc-dc converters and LED drivers. The DL Series is also equipped to ...

Synopsys announced the availability of the Bluetooth LE Audio LC3 Codec optimized for Synopsys’ DesignWare ARC EM DSP and HS DSP processor IP. The LC3 codec is an important feature of Bluetooth LE Audio, the soon-to-be...

Like it or not, our fat cells are with us for life -- even if we lose weight.

The high-speed all-electric railroad locomotive uses a catenary-wire system and pantograph power-transfer arrangement, which appears to violate good engineering practice and should not work. Still, it does, transferring ...

FODMAPs are a diverse group of hard-to-digest carbs. Here's how to find out which ones upset your stomach.

(Brigham Young University) A new study shows drinking low-fat milk -- both nonfat and 1% milk -- is significantly associated with less aging in adults.Research on 5,834 US adults by Brigham Young University exercise scie...

(Pediatric Academic Societies) The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce Sallie Permar, MD, PhD, as the recipient of the 2020 SPR Award in honor of E. Mead Johnson, the most prestigious honor bestow...

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) In findings published in the Journal of the Royal Society Open Science, researchers have detailed the discovery of a tactile-sensory system stowed within the suction disc of remora, b...

(Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory) The MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has received a $75,000 grant to add the African turquoise killifish to its roster of animal models, thus strengthening its t...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Medical University of South Carolina researchers have discovered gender-based differences in response to therapeutic oxytocin treatment in cocaine-addicted individuals with a histor...

(INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale)) How can we improve and better personalize the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas, these particularly resistant and aggressive forms of cancer? An inte...

(Florida Atlantic University) Telling youth not to 'sext' doesn't seem to be reducing the prevalence of them sharing nude photos or videos. A national sample of about 5,000 youth ages 12 to 17 showed 14 percent had sent ...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) First-of-its-kind study led by Duke-NUS Medical School and National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) applies experimental methodology using human neural cells and brain organoids to investigate mech...

(Mayo Clinic) Fewer physicians are pursuing careers in obstetrics, in part because of the intense, round-the-clock demands of the job and a high burnout rate. An unusually large number of practicing obstetricians are exp...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) As more states legalize medicinal and recreational cannabis use and increasingly decriminalize cannabis, the risk to the growth and development of breastfeeding infants w...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Researchers at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed an integrated genomic...