DNV GL has released a position paper on the future alternative fuel mix for global shipping. While LNG is expected to be an early success, the picture becomes more diversified with time, as more than 20 per cent of shipping could adopt ...
Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans are associated with genes affecting type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease, lupus, biliary cirrhosis and smoking behavior. They also concentrate in genes that influence skin and hair characteristics. ...
Tags: DNA, genetic legacy, Papua New Guinea, Denisovans
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows that more than 20 percent of the ...
Tags: DNA, Max Planck Institute, Vernot, Human Genome
Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo Group is set to invest $11bn to establish new plants and develop new products with a focus on new line-up of advanced powertrains. The total investment is being funded by the Chinese automaker Geely ...
Tags: new plants, Volvo, new powertrains
Tiny "bio-bots" inspired by sperm could swim inside the human body to deliver drugs or target cancer someday. The swimming bio-hybrid machines move by combining live heart cells with the flexible body of a synthetic polymer. Past research ...
Tags: Bio-Bots, DNA, molecule, Nature Communication
Electronics For Imaging (EFI) and Landa have collaborated to develop a new digital front end (DFE) technology as part of Landa's end-to-end nanographic printing solution. To be equipped with EFI's Fiery technology, the DFE will provide ...
Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it was teaming up with researchers at two US universities to work on obstacles, technical and otherwise, to automated driving. "To deliver on our vision for the future of mobility, we need to work with many ...
Tags: Autonomous Cars, Cars, Transportation, Ford
Hybrid Coating Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce that it has expanded its technology with a new UV curing formulation. The Company's new formulation is the only non isocyanate UV curing polyurethane formulation in the world. This new ...
Tags: Hybrid Coating, UV Curing
As you all know we love tractors, riders, mowers and pretty much anything that you can put gas in and goes vroom. ?While researching for some upcoming lawn and garden reviews I came across the Raven mower on Youtube. ?From the video it ...
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK is to play a key part in a US public-private consortium of more than 25 companies, universities and state and federal organizations selected to lead the Next Generation ...
Tags: IQE, Power electronics, GaN-on-Si, CMOS
A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles (EDVs) by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
adidas Outdoor, the athletic brand in the outdoors, announces it will feature the new PrimaLoft Performance Down Blends in three new jackets for men and women for 2014. The hybrid design combines water-repellent, fluorocarbon-free down ...
Tags: adidas Outdoor, Jackets
The European outdoor industry's annual sales at retail exceeded €10 billion in 2012, according to the latest edition of The State of the Trade report released by the European Outdoor Group (EOG). At a wholesale level, sell-in figures ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Apparel
The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that ...
Tags: bio-hybrid machines, Electrical, Electronics