Scientists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have developed a new prototype system, which uses plasma to convert oxygen inside sealed packaging into ozone in order to kill germs in packaged food. According to the scientists, the ...
Inventor Sir James Dyson has criticised the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, for failing to put academic rigour at the heart of plans for a new design and technology curriculum Speaking to the Times, Dyson says the curriculum will ...
Research undertaken by the Lighting Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Pennsylvania (Penn) State University has shown that drivers are safer when travelling on roads with LED lights, than not. Quality lighting, such as the ...
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An EU-funded research project has created a system for higher broadband speeds that could be able to connect to many different devices in the home. Researchers on the HOME Gigabit Access (OMEGA) project have managed to develop a network ...
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Warren S. Perkins, former president of AATCC and respected textile industry chemist and professor, has been elected by the Association’s Board of Directors to serve as AATCC Treasurer. John Y. “Jack” Daniels, executive ...
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Eppendorf has introduced the new Eppendorf µCuvette G1.0, designed for the accurate and reliable measurement of small volumes of highly concentrated biomolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. Users can work easily with samples ...
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SPRIselect from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences utilises SPRI (Solid Phase Reversible Immobilisation)-based chemistry to speed and simplify genomic DNA size selection for next generation sequencing fragment library preparation. Following ...
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Scientists from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland (United Kingdom) have begun to develop a new Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) technology that will use special micron-sized LED lights, such as those that could be used as part of home ...
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Watson, IBM's supercomputer that came to fame besting a Jeopardy champion, is going to college to hone its skills. IBM said Wednesday that it will provide a modified version of an IBM Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc have expanded its suite of cryopreservation reagents with the introduction of the Thermo Scientific HyClone HyCryo and HyCryo-STEM cryopreservation media, enabling researchers to maximise the preservation, ...
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There is a shortage of big data modellers as well as data scientists, according to the senior vice president of IT research firm Infosys Labs, Subu Goparaju. Infosys Labs is the research arm of IT business consulting firm Infosys, ...
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US scientists have created a bright efficient area light source to compete with fluorescent tubes and OLEDs, it is claimed. Developed at Wake Forest University of North Carolina, the field-induced polymer electroluminescent (FIPEL) is a ...
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US scientists have created a bright efficient area light source to compete with fluorescent tubes and OLEDs, it is claimed. Developed at Wake Forest University of North Carolina, the field-induced polymer electroluminescent (FIPEL) is a ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using Twitter to track what has been a particularly severe flu season across the U.S. As people take to Twitter to complain about being sick with the flu and its dreaded symptoms, researchers ...
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TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications today announced that with its latest installation of CompacT SelecT™, the technology remains the most widely adopted ...
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