Hilmar Cheese is set to construct a milk powder processing facility in Turlock, California, to meet strong global demand for milk powders. The facility will add 40 full time jobs to the local economy when completed. It will produce a ...
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Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
A federal judge rejected a legal challenge on Wednesday to a central part of President Obama's health care law, ruling that millions of low- and moderate-income people could obtain health insurance subsidies regardless of whether they ...
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Google is working on contact lenses with special sensors to monitor diabetes blood sugar levels. The lens measures blood sugar levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniature blood-sugar sensor embedded between two layers of soft ...
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Since its first entry into the home console market in 1983, with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo has been at the forefront of console gaming. The company, with a combination of solid hardware, family-friendly ...
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The lead scientist for NASA's Mars rover exploration team (Steve Squyres) has announced that recent images beamed back by the Opportunity rover show a rock sitting in a place nearby where there wasn't one just twelve days prior. The image, ...
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NICHICON CORPORATION is aiming for net sales of 200 billion yen in fiscal 2019: 100 billion yen in capacitors and 100 billion yen in NECST (Nichicon Energy Control System Technology) circuit products. To this end, on November 21, 2013, we ...
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Campaign hopes to raise $35,000 to make 'Woody' widely and economically available to all' The makers of My Wooden Horse, a traditional wooden push along toy, have taken to Kickstarter in the hope of bringing it to shelves. The product, ...
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading provider of innovative products, solutions and services, is pleased to announce that the first ever Wärtsilä X72 mid-bore, low-speed engine has successfully passed the factory ...
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Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees released their consolidated?appropriations bill?for FY 2014 on Monday night, and the House of Representatives passed it with bipartisan support on Wednesday. It is also expected to ...
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An experimental drug could eventually offer a new treatment option for genital herpes, a common and incurable sexually transmitted infection, researchers report. In a small study, researchers found that the drug -- called pritelivir -- ...
A University of Illinois study has identified the three most significant risk factors for child obesity among preschoolers: (1) inadequate sleep, (2) a parental BMI that classifies the mom or dad as overweight or obese, and (3) parental ...
The Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), which uses a fine-tipped probe to scan surfaces at the atomic scale, will soon be augmented with a chemical sensor. This involves the use of a hollow AFM cantilever, through which a liquid - in this case ...
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A breakthrough for the field of Spintronics, a new type of technology which it is widely believed could be the basis of a future revolution in computing, has been announced by scientists in Cambridge. The research, reported in Nature ...
One of the benefits of being an astrophysicist is your weekly email from someone who claims to have "proven Einstein wrong". These either contain no mathematical equations and use phrases such as "it is obvious that..", or they are page ...
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