Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has partnered with chemical company Toray Industries to develop Hitoe, a nanofibre-laced clothing line that uses conductive fibres to measure heart rate. Hitoe, which means ‘one layer’ in the ...
Tags: Smart Clothing, Apparel
Argentine polymer and synthetic rubber output fell 4.6% in December compared with the year-ago period, state statistics office Indec said Friday. Production of the petrochemicals rose 0.6% in December compared with November, and was down ...
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The Chinese government has issued a gasoil export quota of 1.9 million mt to state-owned traders Chinaoil and Unipec, sources said Friday. Unipec, the trading arm of state-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, is ...
China would see a greater shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, says a latest report prepared by the economics and technological research institute under the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), according to an article ...
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Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors. Their work, published in Physical ...
In normal development, all cells turn off genes they don’t need, often by attaching a chemical methyl group to the DNA, a process called methylation. Historically, scientists believed methyl groups could only stick to a particular DNA ...
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(Phys.org) —Copepods are tiny crustaceans, only millimeters long. Distributed sparsely in sea and fresh water, hundreds of body lengths may separate them. Oceanographer Laurent Seuront and biological physicist H. Eugene Stanley wanted ...
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LAS VEGAS - Eco Bedroom Solutions, a new entrant on the bedding scene, is making its debut at the Las Vegas Market. As the name suggests, the company was created to meet the needs of ecologically oriented consumers looking for organic, ...
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The Dura 5 & Dura 7 deliver stable sub-litre per hour flows at either 5 or 8 Bar in a rugged hose pump format. Care Free Pumping of Off Gassing Liquids: Municipalities regularly use Sodium ...
Elsevier, world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of open access journal, Pathogenesis. Pathogenesis will be published on behalf of The Royal College of ...
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A so-called implantable insulin delivery device could one day free people with type 1 diabetes from the need for multiple daily injections, scientists say. "Diabetes is a difficult-to-treat condition, and yet keeping in very good balance ...
BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- China will see a wider shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, a research report warned on Thursday. The supply gap will be up to 9.5 million tonnes in 2014, said a report by the economics and technology ...
Tags: PX, Sinopec, Chemical, environment
Battelle's unique software modeling program, PRIA, will soon be put to use in Australia to help manage the risk of salmonella and campylobacter outbreaks in poultry. Baiada Poultry is one of Australia's largest poultry companies, ...
In its study "A little story about the monsters in your closet" published in mid January, the environmental organization Greenpeace criticized numerous discoveries of harmful substances in children's clothing from renowned brand ...
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British luxury brand Burberry made a commitment to eliminate the use of hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 1 January 2020. Burberry’s move comes after two weeks of people powered campaigning on the brand’s social ...
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