Zurich, Switzerland, July 23, 2014 – ABB today reported strong order growth, stable revenues and a significant increase in cash from operations for the second quarter of 2014. The lower operational EBITDA margin mainly reflects ...
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ABB of Zurich, Switzerland, which focuses on electric power engineering and industrial automation, has granted 5m Swiss Francs to the ETH Zurich Foundation to support the development of high-performance power semiconductors, with the aim of ...
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Opposites are known to attract and yet the desire for harmony is also a completely natural instinct. The new Vero collection of bathroom furniture by Duravit is a response to exactly this dichotomy: an elementary basic model with carefully ...
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Opposites are known to attract and yet the desire for harmony is also a completely natural instinct. The new Vero collection of bathroom furniture by Duravit is a response to exactly this dichotomy: an elementary basic model with carefully ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
"Confidence in textiles" – this label can be found in the shops on many textiles which have been successfully tested for harmful substances according to OEKO-TEX® Standard 100. OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 is an independent test ...
The OEKO-TEX Standard 100 is a global, third party certification for textiles and apparel that ensures these products are tested for more than 300 substances used in textile production that are considered to be dangerous to human health. ...
The strongest scientific evidence for D-Wave's claim to have built commercial quantum computers just got weaker. A new paper finds that classical computing can explain the performance patterns of D-Wave's machines just as well as quantum ...
Tags: D-Wave, IEEE Spectrum's, quantum computer, ETH Zurich
An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic ...
ABB says that it is receiving $2.1m of the $70m grant over five years from the Advanced Manufacturing Office within the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) that is funding the new Next ...
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Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2014 – ABB said its fourth-quarter 2013 results were adversely impacted mainly by charges for storm-related project delays and some operational issues in the Power Systems (PS) division. Additional ...
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have deciphered the structure of part of the ribosome found in mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. The scientists were able to benefit from advancements in the field ...
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Back in the Middle Ages, Central Europeans were already capable of digesting milk, yoghurt and cheese just as well as us today. Researchers at the University of Zurich's Centre for Evolutionary Medicine have discovered that the population ...
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Electric carmaker Tesla Motors has expanded its Supercharger network with new locations connecting across four European countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. All these new newly-energized routes will ...
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Scientists and engineers in Europe are embarking on a quest to see if they can change the way young people at risk for becoming obese eat. Key to this will be developing unobtrusive technology that monitors how quickly or slowly a person is ...
Tags: young people health, obese eat, eating disorders, healthier pace
Virtual reality, dance and fun are not the first things that come to mind when we think of treating urinary incontinence in senior women. However, these concepts were the foundations of a promising study by Dr. Chantal Dumoulin, PhD, Canada ...