Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
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PayPal, which claims more than 128 million active accounts in 193 markets and 25 currencies around the globe, is now looking at outer space. As space tourism is expected to take off, PayPal is exploring what payment systems will be like ...
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Nearly 36 years after its launch, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is nearing the edge of the solar system and interstellar space. NASA reported today that its getting data from the spacecraft that indicates it's now more than 11 billion miles ...
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Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in LED manufacturing. The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments will be showcased at SEMICON West 2013, which ...
DuPont launched a new Science & Technology speakers bureau in conjunction with its annual Technology Conference this week in Iowa. The conference brings together scientists, engineers and marketers from around the globe for a week of ...
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Scientists have discovered a solar system with three super-Earths that could possibly hold liquid water,meaning they have the ability to support life. The three potentially habitable planets are part of a system of at least six planets ...
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The popular notion that media causes people to kill is based on flawed research,and those who support it ignore ample evidence to the contrary,according to a report issued this week by Media Coalition,Inc.and distributed today to key ...
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Oncology-focused drug development company Curis has secured US patent protecting intellectual property rights of its phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) - histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, CUDC-907. The patent covers the method of ...
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CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
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Moving hologram displays like those featured in Star Wars could soon be available to watch on a laptop. Scientists have cracked a major technological hurdle to make low-cost, high quality holographic videos a reality. Until now, the ...
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After importing Tajikistan cotton for several years, China would now help the Central Asian country in combating pests that have lately started affecting the productivity of cotton. The Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is set to evaluate the use of phytosterol esters in margarines, for cooking and baking purposes. According to the FSA, Unilever has applied to the agency to market phytosterol esters as a novel food ...
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More than 30 computer scientists 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 make technology more expensive. The amicus brief was filed by the ...
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DuPont Nutrition & Health has unveiled YO-MIX Greek - a five species yogurt culture blend from the DuPont Danisco range designed specifically for use in the development of Greek yogurts. According to the company, YO-MIX Greek comprises ...
Intellectual Ventures, a large patent-licensing firm, has filed a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility while its first patent lawsuit is still pending in a Delaware count. The patent-licensing firm filed its second ...