According to a report from Energy Research Associates Wood Mackenzie, China's coal consumption is expected to double in 2030, reaching 7 billion tons per year, though China has taken measures to control coal consumption. The report says ...
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It was a day of revelation as 2 million people in 436 cities rallied against Monsanto and declared genetically modified crops the beast of the age. Inflated numbers, but regardless, there were a legion of protestors that gathered worldwide ...
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WASHINGTON -- One of the computer scientists who turned on the Internet in 1983, Vinton Cerf, is concerned that much of the data created since then, and for years still to come, will be lost to time. Cerf warned that digital things ...
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When Larry Goodwin was stung to death by thousands of Africanized honey bees on June 1, the story had a near-fiction quality for many Americans. Goodwin, 62 years old, who farmed near Waco, Texas, was killed when he disturbed a hive while ...
Pfizer has collaborated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to expand its centers for therapeutic innovation (CTI) into the development of small-molecule drug candidates and enhance its drug discovery capabilities. ...
In partnership with the non-profit organization FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology, Teradata has granted college scholarships to 10 students on Teradata-sponsored FIRST Robotics teams. FIRST is the foundation ...
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Radiation leaked after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 is unlikely to make the general public and the majority of workers sick says a United Nations scientific committee. "Radiation exposure following the nuclear accident at ...
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Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
Reusable plastic water bottles may be good for the environment, but a new study shows they might be bad for your health. There's a possibility that the chemical found in plastic water bottles, baby bottles and the lining of many food, ...
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Are formula cans and plastic baby bottles safe? The linings of formula cans and polycarbonate (a type of plastic) baby bottles contain the chemical bisphenol A (or BPA). While there's little scientific data on the effects of BPA on ...
NASA scientists plan to take 3D printers into space to enable astronauts to create tools, and even food, onboard the International Space Station and later on the moon or even Mars. NASA's chief administrator Charles Bolden talked about 3D ...
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LEDs are extremely efficient, and when it comes to single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or toys, they can’t be beat. But those aren’t the colors we want to light up our homes and offices. Our eyes ...
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US-based mass spectrometry products provider AB SCIEX has developed a new method to detect horse DNA in meat samples. AB SCIEX noted that this development is in response to recent reports that horse and pig DNA had been identified in beef ...
Dotmatics, a UK-based provider of scientific data management solutions, has released a version of its Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), which is specifically tailored to the food and beverages industry. The enhanced Studies Notebook ...
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Light-emitting diodes, better known as LEDs, offer substantial energy savings over incandescent and fluorescent lights and are easily produced in single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or children's toys. ...
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