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Smartphone Shipments Declined 8.7% in 2022 : IDC
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 8.7% year over year in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22).
Brain imaging reveals how mindfulness program boosts pain regulation
Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds has isolated the changes in pain-related brain activity…
Dancing with Chains: How Does Assessment-as-learning Fit in China
A book chapter entitled ‘Dancing with Chains: How Does Assessment-as-learning Fit in China?’ featured by co-authored with Dr.…
Study: Lead poisoning can be reversed in animal models
A recent study estimates that at least 500,000 children in the U.S. with blood lead levels at or…
New model predicts landslides along wildfire burn scars: an early warning system for high-risk areas
A wildfire followed by an intense rainstorm is often a recipe for disaster. Without vegetation to cushion rainfall,…
UK targets satellite launches from British soil
Virgin Orbit will send these payloads into space from Spaceport Cornwall, which is one of several new facilities…
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MED-EL Founders Ingeborg Hochmair, PhD, and Professor Erwin Hochmair Awarded 2015 Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering announced today that bioengineering pioneers and MED-EL Medical Electronics GmbH co-founders Ingeborg Hochmair, PhD, and Professor Erwin Hochmair have been awarded the 2015 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, for engineering cochlear implants that enable the deaf to hear. The prize is shared with Duke University Professor Blake Wilson, […]
Last of Nepal’s car porters recalls life without roads
By Ammu Kannampilly | AFP Chitlang (Nepal) (AFP) – At 92, Dhan Bahadur Gole is the last known survivor of a generation of porters who carried luxury cars on foot across…
University of Malaya young researcher won the Outstanding Journal Article Award at the AECT 2014 convention in USA
Dr. Farrah Dina Yusop, the Deputy Director of the Curriculum Development Center and senior lecturer of the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Malaysia has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding…
Materials Research Society Announces New Board Appointment for 2015
WARRENDALE, PA – The Materials Research Society (MRS) announces a new appointment to its Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2015. David J. Parrillo, Global Research and Development Director, Packaging and Specialty Plastics…