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Skyworks Expands Antenna Tuning Portfolio

Editorial Team Jul 6, 2016

Skyworks Solutions expanded its best-in-class antenna tuning product portfolio with the addition of several new high performance solutions. Skyworks’ latest antenna tuning offerings address the design challenges mobile device manufacturers…

A&D

GM-NASA Space Robot Partnership Brings ‘Power’ Glove to Life

Editorial Team Jul 6, 2016

Robotic glove technology developed out of a partnership between General Motors and NASA for use on the International Space Station is finding new life on Earth in health care, manufacturing and other industrial applications though a…

Passives

Industry’s Only Subminiature Vertically Actuated On-On-Momentary Slide Switch

Editorial Team Jul 6, 2016

C&K Components has introduced the industry’s first subminiature, vertically actuated on-on-momentary slide switch series. The new JS207 Series slide switches feature a double-pole, triple throw (DP3T) configuration that can be used to…

Featured

Nanomachine diagnostics at genetic level

Editorial Team Jul 5, 2016

Along with former graduate student Divita Mathur, Professor Eric Henderson, studies how to build nanomachines that may have real-world medical applications someday soon. He and Mathur recently published an article in the peer-reviewed…

Featured

Next-gen vaccines succeed in fighting disease

Editorial Team Jul 5, 2016

Working toward developing an E. coli-based transport capsule designed to help next-gen vaccines do a more efficient and effective job than today's immunizations, researchers experimenting with harmless strains of E. coli. The research,…

Medical

Engineers develop customizable vaccine

Editorial Team Jul 5, 2016

A type of easily customizable vaccine that can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks has been developed by MIT engineers. So far, they have designed vaccines against Ebola, H1N1…

Trends

Surface is created with switchable wetting

Editorial Team Jul 5, 2016

A robust surface whose adhesive and wetting properties can be switched using electricity has been discovered by TU Wien (Vienna), KU Leuven and the University of Zürich. This remarkable result is featured on the cover of Nature magazine.…

Power

Procedure significantly enhances Li-ion rechargeable batteries

Editorial Team Jul 5, 2016

A very simple and cost-effective procedure for significantly enhancing the performance of conventional Li-ion rechargeable batteries has been developed by materials researchers at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen and the…

Featured

Flight duration record set by NASA’s Balloon Program

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

A new flight duration record for a mid-latitude flight of a large scientific research balloon was set at 3:54 p.m. EDT, 2nd July, when NASA's Balloon Program Office successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon…

Consumer

Cybathlon in Zürich tests bionic strength

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

At the Cybathlon, 74 athletes from 25 countries will be showing how robotic technology helps them in their daily lives. In 100 days, the starting gun will be fired on the world’s first trial of bionic strength. The Swiss public broadcaster…