PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced TRENDCAST Styling Directions 2014, a comprehensive portable tool kit created to help designers of appliances, outdoor furniture, electronics, recreational equipment and other ...
Las Vegas Market announced that six leading suppliers of gift merchandise will open or expand showrooms for the upcoming Summer Market from July 27- 31, 2014, further increasing the number of major industry suppliers presented in Las Vegas ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Las Vegas Market announced that six leading suppliers of gift merchandise will open or expand showrooms for the upcoming Summer Market, July 27 -31, 2014, further increasing the number of major industry suppliers presented in Las Vegas ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
A / C-tick is by the Australian Communications Authority (Australian Communicatio ns Authority, or ACA) to the communications equipment certification mark. Manufacturers and imports must be in accordance with the following further steps to ...
Tags: C-TICK Certification, C-TICK, certification
Fully autonomous robots could transform the way we live, but so far such machines remain beyond the reach of our most advanced technologies. Existing robots are generally limited to performing simple, well-structured tasks in controlled ...
Tags: Robots, Walk, Fully autonomous robots
It looks like a worm and moves like a worm – sort of. But it is a previously unidentified microscopic species of mite that was discovered by a graduate student on The Ohio State University campus. Affectionately dubbed the "Buckeye ...
Tags: Agriculture
One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern levels. But now studies of a small sea sponge fished out of a Danish fjord shows that complex ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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 ...
Inspired by nature and by the aviation pioneers of the early 20th century, scientists in the United States said Wednesday they had built the world's first jellyfish aircraft. The tiny, ultra-light lab machine, weighing just 2.1 grammes ...
With the invention of the most basic machine in the form of the primitive wheel, man's wish to make life easier has seen a lot of changes in the world over the years. Nowadays advanced technology of the kind that was not imaginable a few ...
Recent data shows that more than 500,000 women in the U.S. report drinking during pregnancy, with about 20 percent of this population admitting to binge drinking. Even one episode of heavy drinking can lead to the collection of birth ...
Tags: drinking during pregnancy, binge drinking, fetal alcohol syndrome
Asteroids (or comets) whose orbits bring them close to the earth's orbit are called near Earth objects. Some of them are old, dating from the origins of the solar system about four and one-half billion years ago, and expected to be rich in ...
Tags: Asteroid, primitive materials, young solar system, mineral
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 ...
Tags: RNA, origin of life
This may be remembered as the year smartphones became boring. Although high-definition displays on smartphones have gotten bigger and their cameras have gotten better, the pace of gee-whiz innovation has dawdled. Smartphone and software ...
Nothing, it seems, makes the hand of Vernon Brejcha quiver. Not the heat from a furnace that burns a few thousand degrees, not the weight of a five-foot pole with a ball of fire attached to its end, and not even the frailty of a very, ...
Tags: Magic of Glass, Lawhorn's Lawrence