The changing political situations in the Middle East are focusing attention on possibly significant increases in energy production, but countries that could produce that energy still face significant hurdles, according to a panel of Middle ...
Tags: energy production, Mineral
According to a new IBM study, 82 percent of CFOs see the value of integrating enterprise-wide data, but only 24 percent think their team is up to the task. This marks a 205 percent increase in the gap between the importance of data and ...
Tags: Computer Products
The ability to locate and count small numbers of impurity atoms could lead to advances in modern electronics and optical fiber communication networks. In research published today in Physical Review Letters, physicists from Monash ...
Tags: Spectrum Imaging, Measure Atom Concentrations, Atomic Resolution
The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, mapping out all of the genes of the human genome. When the first draft of results were published many were surprised that we had only 24,000 genes. This seemed like an unremarkable amount ...
Tags: Proteins, New Medicines, Better Wine
A study looking at pathogen transmission during the translocation of endangered western ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus occidentalis) has provided an insight into assessing the disease risk for populations. The research from Murdoch ...
An international team of scientists led by physicists from the University of York has paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices with improved performance and power efficiency. Magnetic materials are currently used to ...
Emerging markets growth is imminent. "Global trade management will mature as a critical capability in managing growth in emerging markets," according to research and recently released Predictions for 2014 by IDC Manufacturing Insight. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Japanese automaker Honda Motor is set to expand alternative-fuel vehicle technologies in its vehicle lineup in the US in a move to increase its sales in the country. As part of this strategy, the company plans to revamp its vehicle lineup ...
Tags: Honda Motor, Hybrid Vehicle
Intel is expecting its next Atom tablet chip, code-named Cherry Trail, to be in devices by the end of this year, the company said this week. A detailed update on Cherry Trail may be provided around the middle of this year, likely around ...
The OEKO-TEX Standard 100 is a global, third party certification for textiles and apparel that ensures these products are tested for more than 300 substances used in textile production that are considered to be dangerous to human health. ...
Discovery by North Carolina researchers described at biophysical society meeting may advance development of vaccines to fight global, mosquito-borne scourge Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, ...
Tags: Dengue Virus
Japanese automaker Honda Motor is set to stop the production of its hybrid vehicle, Honda Insight, due to declining sales. Earlier in November 2013, the carmaker announced that it will discontinue the production of Insight in February ...
Tags: Honda Motor, automaker, hybrid vehicle
In booths 901/903 at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Denver (3-7 March), Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for measurement and control, is to ...
Tags: scientific sensors, terahertz system, integrated platform
An international team has analysed Jurassic arthropod-plant interactions from the Australian fossil record. Fossilised plants were inspected for insect 'bite marks' to determine insect-plant relationships during the Jurassic era. "We've ...
Tags: Interaction, Fossil Record, Carboniferous, Jurassic
At its foundations, The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is an educational body with a broad mission to impart packaging expertise to the wider industry. So, early in 2013, the AIP worked with the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) ...