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The hot wire anemometer for measuring fluid speed offers unique advantages but also has some challenging use issues. Part 1 looked at the basic principles of the hot wire anemometer. This part contains the discussion wit...

(University of Tsukuba) Quiescence, or breaks during cell cycling, are common during germ cell development in many animals but the mechanisms regulating these periods are unclear. In a recent study from the University of...

The FDA recently authorized use of a fast test for the Covid-19 virus that reportedly can finish up in about 45 minutes. The test was developed by Cepheid, a molecular diagnostics company that is part of Danaher Corp. Th...

IAR Systems extends its tools offering for safety-related software development with the new version of the functional safety edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas' low-power RL78 Family of microcontrollers (MCUs)...

SEGGER’s J-Link Remote Server has been used for years to debug target systems, thousands of miles away, even behind firewalls. Of its many uses in the past, a particularly important one was for system bring-up when har...

New developments in robotics, automation and many other rotative applications are aiming for ever more compact designs and often cannot be implemented using the standard components available on the market. To prevent res...

Imagine being a university student studying EE/ECE, physics, chemistry, biology, or other sciences and not having access to your lab equipment. What will you do, sitting there bored at home because your university is clo...

(Tohoku University) A cheap, biocompatible white powder that luminesces when heated could be used for non-invasively monitoring the temperature of specific organs within the body. Tohoku University scientists conducted p...

(American Museum of Natural History) New research shows that fishes on either side of Niagara Falls--one of the most powerful waterfalls in the world -- are unlikely to breed with one another. Knowing how well the falls ...

(Rice University) New research from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine shows analyzing the brains of stroke victims just days after the stroke allows researchers to link various speech functions to different ...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Prolonged fear and anxiety brought on by major stressors, like the coronavirus pandemic, can not only take a toll on a person's mental health, but may also have a lasting impac...

(Nagoya City University) The present study revealed impairment of lipid metabolism in papillae with calcified plaque tissue and down-regulation of fatty acid-binding protein 4 (FABP4) associated with plaque formation. Im...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Vanderbilt researchers have identified haplotypes, ancestral fragments of DNA, that are associated with hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) in a first-of-its-kind genomic study made po...

(American Chemical Society) Constantly being told to wash your hands? Us too. So we're diving into the chemistry behind why soap is so effective against viruses like the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

(The Obesity Society ) All print, broadcast and online journalists who receive the Obesity embargo alert agree to abide by the embargo and may not publish, post, broadcast or distribute embargoed news releases or details...

(MediaSource) A multistate study of Medicaid enrollees led by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found that suicide risk was highest among youth with epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, subst...

(Wiley) New research reveals rising rates of liver cancer around the world, despite advances aimed at preventing the disease. The findings are published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Can...

(University of Tsukuba) University of Tsukuba researchers identified neurons that promote non-REM sleep in the brainstem in mice. These neurons commonly expressed the gene that encodes the neuropeptide neurotensin. Activ...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) Nested in the long-running Singapore Chinese Health Study, a new study by researchers in Singapore, based on data from over 60,000 middle-aged to older adults, has found that people who suffer f...

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) New research, led by Prof. LIU Bing and Prof. JIANG Tianzi from the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have recently developed a ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new systematic review and meta-analysis showed a small but significant reduction in subjective pain scores for cannabinoid treatment compared to placebo in patients exp...

(Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) After a stroke, there is an increased risk of suffering a second one. If areas in the left hemisphere were affected during the first attack, language is often...