Long before the dawn of the pacifier, parents of newborns and toddlers found ways to use surrounding resources to help soothe and distract tots into precious moments of peace. In today's smartphone era, a proliferation of applications, ...
Plexineon makes a vital common space more modern and welcoming International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the largest global development institution in the world. A member of the World Bank Group, IFC's stated mission is to create jobs, ...
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Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward visualizing small biomolecules inside living biological systems with minimum disturbance, a longstanding goal in the scientific community. In a study published March 2nd ...
It may seem like mosquitoes will bite anything with a pulse, but they're actually quite strategic in picking their victims. A new study from The Rockefeller University looked at the interaction of different sensory cues—carbon ...
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TUESDAY Feb. 11, 2014, 2014 -- Experimental glasses that seem to improve a doctor's ability to see cancer cells during surgery may help reduce cancer patients' need for follow-up operations, according to a new study. The researchers said ...
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The faint background glow that exists throughout the Universe, called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), is made of photons that have been scattering since the universe was just 400,000 years old. Now in a new paper, physicist Liang Dai ...
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Pet toys are gifts of love, bought on impulse. And what triggers that impulse is the packaging they see when they walk into a pet store or grooming studio. That packaging has to make pet owners stop, look and love – instantly - or ...
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Spreading salt on roadways is still the most cost-effective tool for preventing death, injury, and property damage from winter traffic accidents around the world. In 2011, highway departments in the U.S. alone spread 19.6 million tons ...
Vivid's My Friend Cayla comes out on top in consumer tech event's top five picks from the show. The Gadget Show Live has chosen its top five products from this week's Toy Fair,with Vivid Imagination's new signing-My Friend Cayla-coming ...
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For PUMA, 2013 was the Year of Performance Innovation – with the launch of the path-breaking running footwear - Mobium Elite. In 2014, the brand extends and refines its performance offering for the sports enthusiast – presenting ...
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Today, the LED lighting experts at LEDtronics®, Inc., www.LEDtronics.com, announced that their LED Cobraheads Streetlight Fixtures helped NRG reduce energy consumption by over 72% and decrease light pollution in the local area. LED ...
Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Researchers at the University of California, ...
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Scientists from SLAC, Stanford and Berkeley Lab grew sheets of an exotic material in a single atomic layer and measured its electronic structure for the first time. They discovered it's a natural fit for making thin, flexible light-based ...
Two new views from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, showcase the telescope's talent for spying objects near and far. One image shows the energized remains of a dead star, a structure nicknamed the "Hand of God" after ...
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Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, launches Opti P Lucence, a range of zips which provide a special ‘glow in the dark’ effect. The zips charge in sunlight (UV) and can ...