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The world within a cell is a chaotic space, where the quantity and movement of molecules and proteins are in constant flux. Trying to predict how widely a protein or process may fluctuate is essential to knowing how well a cell is performing. But such predictions are hard to pin down in a cell's open system, where everything can look hopelessly random. Now physicists at MIT have proved that at least one factor can set a limit, or bound, on a give...

Microchip Technology Incorporated has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Atmel Corporation. Microchip also announced that it expects it net sales for fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31st, 2016 to be an all-time record and between the mid-point and high end of the guidance of $552.0m to $568.5m it provided during its earning conference call on February 3rd, 2016.

The fuseholder standard IEC/EN 60127-6 has been revised to improve fire safety. Effective in October 2017, manufacturers of fuseholders will only be permitted to market products that have been tested and authorised in accordance with the updated standard. SCHURTER will offer its customers upgraded solutions by the deadline.

Those of us who thought slavery was an unsavoury historical remnant would do well to think again following the enactment of the government’s new Modern Slavery Act 2015, which has significant implications for the UK electronic components supply network. ecsn Chairman Adam Fletcher explains.

In recent months NSK Japan has been working in close conjunction with the Kanagawa Rehabilitation Centre, performing trials of the company´s innovative LIGHBOT autonomous guide robot which features indoor navigation and obstacle avoidance. The product already offers a number of advanced guidance, safety and usability functions, and NSK Japan will now continue its development efforts in readiness for LIGHBOT´s European launch in the au...

Norwegian oil group Statoil said it would store energy from a Scottish floating wind farm on a powerful battery storage system, in a pioneering pilot project. The system's one megawatt-hour Lithium battery capacity corresponds to that of "more than two million iPhones," Statoil said in a statement, making it one of the world's most ambitious projects in the field.

January and February 2016 smashed temperature records, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) observed as it warned climate change was advancing at an "unprecedented" rate. Temperatures in the first two months of 2016 followed a year that broke "all previous records by a wide margin," the UN's weather agency said. The WMO pointed to record 2015 sea surface temperatures, unabated sea-level rise, shrinking sea ice and extreme weather events ar...

The EU and Brazil signed an agreement to develop 5G, the next-gen of communication networks. The Commission also started work on an action plan to deploy the technology in the EU by 2020. In the future, everybody and everything will use 5G. By 2020, there will be 26 billion connected devices and 70% of people will own a smartphone. 5G will be the backbone of the EU Digital Single Market, industries of the future, modern public services and innova...

Oulu, Finland, is looking for the world’s greatest 5G ideas, 5GFWD – Oulu 5G Innovation Challenge – is now officially open. This competition challenges the world’s sharpest innovators, designers, companies and teams to develop 5G innovations that could make our life better, easier and happier.

techUK has expressed concerns about the impact of export controls on the electronics industry. The warning follows the completion of a 12 month joint programme with the Export Control Organisation (ECO).Although progress has been made to date, exports of technology components are unfairly restricted compared to similar exports by other countries, especially the US following its introduction of new rules exempting many components from licensing.