Analyst firm TechInsights published the first independent technical analysis of Apple's A20 Pro processor on September 22, 2026 — and for the semiconductor industry, the significance goes well beyond ...

Postpartum psychosis has been a topic of discussion in the national media lately. A consensus panel of 21 international experts recently published a review article in the journal Biological Psychiatry ...

MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing calculations and directing chemical signals. One day, these biological ...

Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing ...

In July 2026, social media posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump confused the words "transistor" and "transgender" during a speech criticizing the CHIPS and Science Act, a 2022 bipartisan effort ...

IBM on Thursday unveiled the first chip created using its latest semiconductor technologies, one that holds nearly 100 billion transistors in a fleck of hardware no bigger than your fingernail.

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up. IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the ...

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors ...

Cognitive dysfunction is a core trait of bipolar disorder. That's a short assertion bursting at the seams with nuance and caveat. For starters, what causes this core trait? The consensus had been that ...

Although the mood-stabilizing drugs lithium and valproate are considered gold standards when it comes to managing bipolar disorder, relying on just one of those may not be ideal. That's why adjunctive ...

As the name implies, on one end of bipolar disorder, you’ve got depression. And on the other hand, you’ve got mania, with patients yanked back and forth in ways that medicine has struggled with ...