The German IT and communications sector is set to return to growth in 2014 driven by smartphones and tablet computers but still trail a booming global market, an industry lobby said Sunday. On the eve of the world's biggest hi-tech fair, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, smartphones, tablet computers
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows that more than 20 percent of the ...
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Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the third quarter of 2013 construction activity in the EU declined by 1.1 percent year on year, following the sharp decline which was recorded in the first ...
Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago, before humans transitioned to agricultural societies, according to an analysis of modern dog and wolf genomes from areas of the world thought to be centers ...
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European nations stand sharply divided over setting new 2030 targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, EU sources said Friday. European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso called in commissioners to try to ...
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The Canadian Shipowners Association (CSA) has formally sought a legal review in the United States of the implementation dates found in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Vessel General Permit (VGP). The VGP imposes requirements ...
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Cotton plantings for 2014/15 will start in a few months in the northern hemisphere, which accounts for about 90% of world production. World area is expected to decline due mostly to the expected decline in China. In 2013/14, the ...
Tags: Cotton Market, Soybeans, Textile
An international team of scientists led by National Institutes of Health researchers has traced the likely origin of the enzyme needed to manufacture the hormone melatonin to roughly 500 million years ago. Their work indicates that this ...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, origin of the enzyme, hormone melatonin
Semiconductor laser manufacturer II-VI Laser Enterprise GmbH has shipped from its Zurich, Switzerland headquarters its 200 millionth vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) since 2008, consolidating its position as the leading volume ...
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China's manufacturing sector is gradually gaining strength and paving the way for a steady economy, two surveys showed Friday, though mixed signals remain in areas including new orders. China's official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) ...
Total European Union steel tube production is expected to decline by almost four percent this year, according to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q4 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association ...
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“It’s been a very productive week”, said EU Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero coming out of the talks. “We have been striving already for many months to prepare the ground for an ambitious trade and investment ...
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The global economy is moving forward, but divergence between countries and regions reflects the uneven progress made toward recovery from the economic crisis, according to the OECD's latest Economic Outlook. The OECD indicated that ...
The market has been in a state of confusion ever since the latest USDA supply/demand estimate was released last Friday, as traders seem to have difficulty making sense of the data. The main message we take from the USDA report, which ...
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ProPhotonix Ltd of Salem, NH, USA, a designer and manufacturer of LED illumination systems and laser diode modules as well as a distributor of laser diodes, has been appointed distributor for Osram Opto Semiconductors range of green and ...
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