DoSomething.org, one of the largest organizations for young people and social change and H&M, one of the world's largest fashion retailers, are teaming up with Olivia Wilde to get young people across the country excited about clothing ...
Brazil's Petrobras has signed a short-term contract with Bolivian counterpart YPFB to increase natural gas imports from the Andean nation, Petrobras said. Under terms of the contract, Petrobras will import an additional 2.24 million cubic ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Brazil's Petrobras, gas-fired power plant
On Monday, TODAY's Natalie Morales will cross the Boston Marathon finish line in custom Adidas Energy Boost 2 thanks to a generous donation from Adidas Running to One Fund Boston. Thanks to the passion and support of thousands, Adidas ...
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An environmentally friendly, metallized polypropylene film capacitor for DC-link applications has bveen launched by Vishay Intertechnology. The MKP1848C DC-link capacitor offers a broad capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and ...
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Many people consider quinoa to be a vital tool for food security in the era of climate change. But in order to be grown outside its native climate, this crop must be adapted by plant breeders. The challenge is that quinoa's seed is tightly ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
In a development that sounds as if it was lifted from the storyline of a vampire melodrama, a British research consortium has announced that it is well on its way to producing human blood on a scale that makes transfusions into real people ...
Natural gas demand in Italy in March fell by almost 24% year on year to 6.026 billion cubic meters, gas and power exchange manager GME said Tuesday. GME said power plant demand fell by 33% to 1.276 Bcm, one of the "strongest decreases ...
Tags: Natural gas, Gas Demand, Heating demand
Corn planting is underway in the U.S. That's the good news. The bad news is as of mid-April, the pace remains painfully slow in most of the country, a veritable rerun of the start to planting season in 2013. While planting is actually ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture, Food
In booth#15-10 at Photonix 2014 in Tokyo, Japan (16-18 April), QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa, Japan has launched a picosecond pulsed driver board integrated with its QLD1x6x series 1μm-wavelength-range (1020-1180nm) 14-pin butterfly ...
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In booth#15-10 at Photonix 2014 in Tokyo, Japan (16-18 April), QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa, Japan has launched a picosecond pulsed driver board integrated with its QLD1x6x series 1μm-wavelength-range (1020-1180nm) 14-pin butterfly ...
Tags: QD Laser, Electrical, Electronics
IBM Research's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Northwestern University have developed a technique to grow hexagonal- and cubic-phase gallium nitride (h-/c-GaN) on standard (100) silicon (Si) [Can Bayram et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., ...
Transport Certification Australia (TCA) and Trafikverket (Swedish Transport Administration) have announced, at this week's inaugural meeting of the new OECD Workshop for High Capacity Vehicles in Paris, that the operational pilot of the ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection announced that Delaware has become the first state in the Mid-Atlantic Region authorized by the EPA to administer and enforce the lead-based paint Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Program, ...
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Google reported a 19 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter, but results from its advertising business were mixed. Revenue for the quarter ended March 31 was US$15.42 billion, Google?reported?Wednesday. That was a healthy jump ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google
From a zipper-like wound closure device that can be peeled off at home to a telemedicine robot, there are plenty of ingenious devices included as finalists in this year's Medical Design Excellence Awards. It is worth noting, however, that ...
Tags: Reshaping Medtech, Health, Medicine