A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists are using mini-satellites that work as "space cops" to help control traffic in space. The scientists used a series of six images over a 60-hour period taken from a ground-based ...
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Flies living with their brothers cause less harm to females during courting than those living with unrelated flies, say Oxford University scientists. The study, published this week in Nature, found that unrelated male flies compete more ...
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US-based Lakefront Brewery has increased its production to 40,496 barrels of beer in 2013, up 21.4%, from 33,368 barrels in 2012. President Russ Klisch said the increase is due to the double-digit growth of the brewery's core brands as ...
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The New York Times: Health Care Reform Survives A Lawsuit A long-shot lawsuit that could have damaged the effectiveness of health care reform got a well-deserved brushoff from a federal district judge on Wednesday. The suit was brought ...
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The Beat the Q app allows consumers to order takeaway coffee ahead of time A new Australian phone app that allows users to order and pay for coffee en-route to their regular cafe — to ‘Beat the Q’ — has been ...
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Last week was an unusually quiet week in the land of IT-related snafus. Most of the snarls reported concerned existing tech issues that continue to fester without resolution. For example, late last week, Florida decided to pay unemployment ...
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What is ETMR/ETANTR and who does it affect? Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) are rare, deadly brain tumours that affect mainly children below the age of 4 years. There are 300 cases reported but probably there are many ...
A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings ...
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The January 2014 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Survey of Investor Confidence reveals that despite some positive trends, such as sales and profitability continuing to rise off of a low base through the December quarter, ...
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There is nothing like jamming out to your favorite tunes when working. ?If you are like Dan he loves listening to Michael Bolton, well lucky for me I am not like him. ?Personally, I like rock and country. ?But whatever your flavor of music ...
Specialist RFID solution provider and GS1 Business Alliance Partner RAMP RFID has announced the launch of the Xterprise Clarity Solution for item-level RFID to the Australian retail sector. GS1 Australia, Motorola, NRA and RAMP RFID are ...
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Case goods and upholstery resource Sunpan Modern Home is more than doubling its space for the Las Vegas Market, enabling it to increase its assortment of new and inline goods shown here. At the Jan. 26-30 show, the Canadian company will ...
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Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
Know about the features of hydraulic cylinders Small firms and modern industries today have access to hydraulic cylinders, which is considered to be a wonder in the field of technology. There are several industries in which these ...
Biologists have studied the functionality of a poorly understood category of genes, which produce long non-coding RNA molecules rather than proteins. Some of these genes have been conserved throughout evolution, and are present in 11 ...
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