Why this little-known birth control option deserves more attention

Self-administered injectable contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than two decades, yet a new ...

China’s ‘condom tax’ sparks backlash as Beijing struggles to reverse population collapse

China introduced a 13% tax on contraceptives while exempting childcare services as the global superpower battles sustained ...
The Indian Express

The Hardy–Ramanujan number: What 1729 reveals about Srinivasa Ramanujan, even to non-mathematicians

National Mathematics Day: December 22 is observed as National Mathematics Day in India to honour Srinivasa Ramanujan, the man who seemingly knew infinity. While Ramanujan is celebrated as a genius and ...
blog.lib.umn.edu

Creating a non-hormonal male birth control pill

Gunda Georg and Narshimulu Cheryala, who directed much of the lab work to develop YCT-529 Around the world, roughly 121 million unintended pregnancies occurred each year between 2015 and 2019. Of ...
businesstech.co.za

New law in South Africa bringing big changes for families and employers

The Constitutional Court has ruled that parents can now split four months of maternity leave between them, which brings significant changes to how employees take time off. According to the ...
IEEE

Non-Singular Practical Fixed-time Prescribed Performance Adaptive Fuzzy Consensus Control for Multi-Agent Systems Based on an Observer

Abstract: In this paper, the problem of non-singular fixed-time control with prescribed performance is studied for multi-agent systems characterized by uncertain states, nonlinearities, and nonstrict ...
IEEE

Non-Cascaded Sensorless Control of SPMSM Based on Cascaded Extended State Observer

Abstract: Attaining precise and dynamic speed control is pivotal for the efficient sensorless operation of permanent magnet synchronous motors. Addressing the challenge of parameter mismatch within ...