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Temperature is certainly the most obvious answer but there are other sensors that are increasingly being employed in the smartest homes and buildings. With the right sensor inputs, several actions can be taken by actuato...

STMicroelectronics has revealed new battery-management technology that increases reliability, safety, driving range, and cost-effectiveness of electric vehicles (EVs). EVs are predicted to reach cost parity with conventi...

As the speedy development of artificial intelligence, the applications have largely expended to all industries. With the results, AI processors have significantly announced to the market. However, to live up the requests...

In today's world, industrial, consumer and even medical sectors are adopting digitalization to collect sensor data. While certain devices are fitted with analog-to-digital converters, the market demands increased accurac...

Essential oils smell great. But are they really safe remedies for anxiety, stress, pain and other health problems?

by Iris Su, Project Engineer II, Inventus Power A recent change in Li-ion battery pack safety is the shift from a focus on just prevention to one that emphasizes prevention and mitigation. Battery pack designers who were...

Texas Instruments expanded its temperature sensing portfolio to include linear thermistors that deliver up to 50% higher accuracy than negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistors. The higher accuracy of TI’s the...

Flex Power Modules introduces new families of miniature DC-DC converters for industrial applications: the PUA-A, PUC-B and PUB-M. The new devices are all isolating converters providing output power of up to 1W, with no m...

An instrument platform runs new Bluetooth LE test modes for Bluetooth LE 5.0. Similar to that for Bluetooth Classic, it allows manufacturers to perform all RF and pre-conformance tests on their Bluetooth LE components vi...

I-PEX Connectors has developed the world's first fully-shielded auto-lock FFC connector for high-speed transmission. The new EVAFLEX 5-HD Auto-Lock FFC Connector has 360° shielding, which prevents EMI leakage from the c...

The OneAdvisor instrument platform addresses the evolving requirements of communication service providers, their field technicians and their contractors. The first OneAdvisor solution, ONA-800, provides the essential com...

Lebanese-born medical researcher Huda Zoghbi surmounted civil war and daunting scientific challenges to unravel mysteries of crippling neurological disorders.

(Tokyo University of Science) While fear memory -- or the ability to remember contexts in which to be afraid -- is important for survival, too much of it, and an inability to forget contexts that no longer apply, hinders...

(Oxford University Press USA) A new study in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, published by Oxford University Press, finds significant benefits to lengthening the amount of time between prostate cancer scre...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found evidence that specific immune cells may play a key role in the devastating effects of cerebral malaria,...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) found in breastmilk may influence a child's growth from infancy through early childhood, according ...

(St. Michael's Hospital) Researchers analyzed incidences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among adults 35 years and older who were living with and without HIV between 1996 and 2015 in Ontario - where over ...

(Weizmann Institute of Science) Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have now identified new markers that can help predict which patients have a better chance for a positive response to immunotherapy treatments.

(American College of Surgeons) Researchers have examined new geriatric-specific characteristics that appear to raise the risk of elderly surgical patients having an unplanned hospital readmission within a month of initia...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA researchers have found that it is possible to assess a person's ability to feel empathy by studying their brain activity while they are resting rather than wh...

(University of California - Irvine) Low oxygen levels in the heart have long been known to produce life-threatening arrhythmias, even sudden death. Until now, it was not clear how. New findings, in a study led by Steve A...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A study published online as an accepted paper in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that later school start times were associated with a significant drop in vehicle accident...