According to research firm Gartner, Big Data is currently still a solution looking for a problem, despite it being forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 and create 4.4 million IT jobs by 2015. While businesses are keen to ...
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The mathematician who found the largest known prime number said the discovery last month was like climbing Mount Everest or landing on the moon. Curtis Cooper, a mathematician and professor at the University of Central Missouri, stands ...
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Opening your freezer at home gives you an idea of how extremely cold it must be in a frozen warehouse. To be more precise: Arctically cold. The ambient temperature in a chilled warehouse can be as low as -39 °C, in a frozen warehouse ...
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Just in time for Valentine's Day comes this, ahem, uplifting tidbit from our director of health research, who stumbled upon it while looking into the erectile-dysfunction drug sildenafil (Viagra) for entirely work-related purposes. It seems ...
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Motorcyclists do it. Construction workers do it. And the rule for more and more skiers and snowboarders is: Not without my helmet! While it used to be mainly small children and safety fanatics who used ski helmets, many winter sports ...
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Like all organic materials, textiles will decompose under the influence of water and microorganisms in the ground. Under comparable environmental conditions, it depends mainly on the raw materials used whether the decomposition process ...
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The British Science Association are delighted to be working with The UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) to award the Textile Edge Prize, the first ever fashion and textile prize to feature in their National Science + Engineering ...
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US-based mass spectrometry products provider AB SCIEX has launched a new testing method for laboratories to test for and quantify dicyandiamide (DCD) in dairy products and other protein-rich foods. The company stated that the new method ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed a new prototype plasma technology that can generate ozone to kill pathogens in packaged food, while extending the shelf life of products. The researchers, Declan Diver and Hugh Potts, ...
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The SIA and SRC are trying to persuade the US Congress not to cut funds for basic semiconductor R&D. SIA president Rich Templeton argues that funding for bodies like the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of ...
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Engineering students who get three grade ‘A’s at A Level (or equivalent) can now apply for a scholarship of £1,000 per year. The Diamond Jubilee Scholarships will be awarded by the Institution of Engineering and ...
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Dignitaries at the official opening of stage one of Kraft Foods Asia Pacific Confectionery Centre of Excellence at Kraft’s manufacturing site in Ringwood. Multinational food company Kraft Foods has opened stage one of its Asia ...
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Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid’s (UC3M) Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA) and the Systems Intelligence Laboratory (LSI) have jointly developed a new technology, which is aimed at enhancing car GPS accuracy ...
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The processed food exports are currently valued at $43bn and are expected to grow significantly. The food processing sector employs about 13 million people directly, and has about 35 million people who are indirectly involved. This ...
US-based AB SCIEX has released a new testing method for laboratories to screen for and quantify dicyandiamide (DCD) in dairy and other protein-rich foods products. This new method increases the accuracy and reduces the amount of time to ...
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