Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announced that together with DONG Energy (Denmark) it has demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on an industrial scale. The combined ...
One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a ...
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Wearable gadgets, curved smartphones and new game consoles defined technology in 2013. That's why it's no surprise they make up the bulk of our top 10 devices of the year. Some of these devices are essentially much better versions of ...
DNA nanotechnology has become one of the great hopes of molecular manufacturing in which large-scale objects could potentially be assembled from the most basic building blocks, atom-by-atom. Research is slowly revealing that many of the ...
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A loudspeaker playing a clip of President Barack Obama talking about 3-D printing in his State of the Union speech might not seem so remarkable—except that the loudspeaker represents one of the first 3-D printed consumer electronic ...
Qatar Petroleum(QP)and Qatar Petrochemical Company(QAPCO)have revealed the logo of the Al Sejeel Petrochemical Complex,bearing the colors of the Qatari flag,and also announced the award of the project's Front-End Engineering and ...
BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and American technology provider Renmatix Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will jointly scale up the Renmatix Plantrose process for the production of industrial sugars based on lignocellulosic biomass. The ...
The dynamic glass market sits on the precipice of major growth, with a ready market and proven technology. However, demand for the advanced glass product remains low, View Inc. CEO Rao Mulpuri explained during a Dec. 11 Forbes profile. The ...
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Dyslexia -- difficulty with language/verbal comprehension -- is a connectivity problem with the relay signals in the brain's white matter, U.S. researchers say. Bart Boets, a clinical psychologist at Catholic University in Leuven, ...
US-based bio-fuel manufacturer Virent has collaborated with petroleum alternatives licensor Renmatix to convert affordable cellulosic sugars to renewable chemicals and bio-based packaging materials. Under the partnership, Renmatix will ...
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At the 9th annual ICIS Base Oils and Lubricants conference, Dec. 4-6, 2013, in New Jersey, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. announced recent developments in renewable synthetic lubricant basestocks designed to provide differentiated ...
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At the Supercomputing 2013 (SC13) event in Denver, Colorado (18-21 November), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar, of Sunnyvale, CA, USA introduced a broadened portfolio of products for supercomputing ...
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Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. recently introduced Renewicals, a breakthrough category of novel products, building blocks and ingredients. Elevance announced the new product category during Ecochem 2013, held Nov. 19-21 in Basel, ...
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CGS, a leading global provider of technology solutions, announced that Little Giraffe has chosen the BlueCherry Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Microsoft Dynamics SL to help manage future growth, optimize their global supply chain, ...
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Kontron announces the launch of a new, versatile control cabinet computer in its 3U CompactPCI Value Line series with Intel Celeron 807UE processor. This intelligent system offers customers a compact sized industrial computer with all the ...
Tags: Cabinet Computer, Packaging, Printing