IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
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Scientists at IBM have showcased computer chips featuring carbon nanotube technology,and apparently built with standard manufacturing techniques. This new approach,hopes IBM,will open up the way for commercial mass-production of carbon ...
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — October 9, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE ...
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In addition to modern sportswear, the market is increasingly demanding functional undergarments for the fashion and business sectors. However, for this application textiles with special properties are required which clearly differentiate ...
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The Valspar Corporation has announced plans to expand its research and development campus and renovate its former headquarters building, located in downtown Minneapolis. This world-class environment for developing industry-leading coatings ...
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Vietnamese scientists are trying to create led lamp products which have the light spectrum suitable with every kind of plant, which can help save electricity, churn out clean and off-season products. According to Dr Phan Hong ...
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Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) and aluminum nitride (AlN) materials and related products and services, says that it has helped Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists ...
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Carbide is a derivative of hard metals. If we trace back in History, hard metal was extensively used in industrial operations and ventures till the onset of the industrial revolution. With changing needs and aspirations of the people, ...
Scientific testing by an independent laboratory has proven that a specialized laundering process, offered by UniFirst Corporation and used to disinfect and protect food industry garments, destroys pathogens known to cause nearly 90 million ...
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18 October 2012 Lithium aluminate substrate for low-cost nonpolar gallium nitride Researchers based in Germany and the Netherlands have been studying the potential for growing nonpolar gallium nitride(GaN)on lithium ...
Danone Research,Centre for Specialised Nutrition has deployed IDBS'data and process management platform E-WorkBook. This move is a part of Danone's plan to bring together its five international R&D communities. The deployment,which ...
Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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The European Organisation for Nuclear Research–better known as CERN and home of the Large Hadron Collider–has implemented clustered NAS in its 2PB estate of NetApp filers. The organisation switched on clustered NAS ...
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Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike ...
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Neglecting maths education in UK schools will lead to a substantial decline in skills in the IT sector,according to Scott Fletcher,founder and chairman of ANS Group. Scott Fletcher responded to a study from The Sutton Trust,which found ...
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