The first comprehensive, large-scale cohort study of the long-term survival of children treated for low-grade gliomas, the most common pediatric brain tumor, finds that almost 90 percent are alive 20 years later and that few die from the ...
Tags: Health&Medicine
The goal of making cheap organic solar cells may have gotten a little more approachable with a new understanding of the basic science of charge separation presented in a paper published online today, February 3, in Nature Communications. ...
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At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
Tags: Chicken, Apples, Oranges, gut bacteria, Salmonella, Food Safety
The time has once again come for appliance and electronics brands to start putting their stand-out products forward for national and international recognition, with Good Design Australia opening submissions for the Australian International ...
Tags: appliance, electronics, medical equipment, automobiles, sporting equipment
Asia's rising stars challenging soft drinks leaders The three largest global soft drinks brands continue to be Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and Sprite, but Chinese brand Kangshifu (Tingyi Holding Corp) is not far behind, according to the latest ...
Tags: soft drinks, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Sprite
Technological advancement has taken leap and bounds in the last few years. There are many ways in which the world of technology has transformed human lives. Starting right from the advent of the internet to the upcoming of diverse ...
Tags: Textile Machines, emerging markets
Government incentives for a pair of proposed nuclear reactors could cost U.K. taxpayers as much as £17.62 billion, thus exceeding the reactors' projected cost. The EC figure is a preliminary estimate included in an initial report to ...
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This past fall 2013, many growers found it difficult to plant wheat as early as they would like. In most cases, it was due to a prolonged dry-down period for the preceding crop. It resurrects the question of adjusting cropping strategies ...
Washington: Your small electric car may soon become faster and more efficient thanks to ‘super capacitors’ that are capable of storing far greater chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the ...
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Yole Developpement has forecasted that the grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. materials market will ...
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Serta is following up the success of its iComfort gel memory foam line and its iSeries gel memory foam and innerspring line with a move to unify the brands with common features, benefits, step-up stories and aesthetics. It is introducing ...
(Phys.org)—In 2012,a team of physicists from Germany proposed a scheme for realizing a nanoscale heat engine composed of a single ion.Like a macroscale heat engine,the theoretical nanoscale version can convert heat into mechanical ...
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If an accounting firm wants to maintain a strong ethical environment from top to bottom,a new study by a Kansas State University accounting professor and her colleagues finds it's important that the firm's environment is viewed the same ...
TOKYO, Jan 29, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) --- JSR Corporation is pleased to announce that JM Energy Corporation, a 100% JSR subsidiary focusing on lithium ion capacitors technology (LICLithium Ion Capacitor.), has decided to expand its existing ...
Tags: Lithium Ion, JM Energy
China has huge potential for liquefied natural gas (LNG) development, according to the organizer of an international industry event underway. Pat LaStrapes, vice-chairman of the World LNG Fuels 2014 event committee, told Xinhua he saw the ...