GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced a funding injection of up to £5m from the Wellcome Trust to support its open approach to discover and develop the treatments for certain diseases. The funding will move the early-stage research to ...
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NASA engineers have brought a long-running Mars rover out of stand-by mode after the robot ran into trouble last month. The Mars rover Opportunity is back up and running, according to Guy Webster, a spokesman for NASA. "Confirmation has ...
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The 59th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has issued a Call for Papers seeking original work in microelectronics research and development. The paper submission deadline is Monday, June 24, 2013 at 23:59 p.m. Pacific ...
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The student Ming Ma from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method to manufacture LEDs that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His patent-pending ...
Does an uptick in the economy give people more reason to care about Mother Earth? That is what a March 2013 Harris Poll of 2,276 U.S. adults (ages 18+) interviewed online set out to find. Turns out that concern for the current stateand ...
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NASA has launched three smartphones into space in what scientists hope will be the lowest-cost satellites ever tested. The smartphones, Google-HTC Nexus Ones running the Android operating system, launched aboard the maiden flight of ...
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Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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On April 19, 2012 Shanghai Science and Technology Awards Conference is held in friendship hall, Shanghai Exhibition Center. The conference sets up "Youth Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award" for the first time and Baosteel ...
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say they are getting some clues about where all the anti-matter went. That is a big deal because scientists have long been trying to figure out why anti-matter seemed to disappear. The answer may ...
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As a responsible company committed to the principles of sustainability, Saint-Gobain Oberland AG is committed to making every endeavour to further reduce its CO2 emissions. The company is therefore planning to use biogas for glass container ...
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Researchers have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic (PV) system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide ...
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Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the école Polytechnique in Paris, France, say that they have identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes nitride light-emitting diodes ...
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A team of scientists at the Department of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) in the Philippines has developed a biodegradable food packaging material that protects food and extends its shelf. ...
Genalice, a US-based software solutions developer for DNA analysis, will soon release the beta version of Genalice Map. The solution Genalice Map can process raw DNA data, which is produced by the sequencers, and stores the data in a ...
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• New LED reveal® bulb uses GE technology to avoid dull yellow rays while saving energy • GE Lighting’s Chief Innovation Manager answers five questions about consumer LED lighting New reveal® LED light ...
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