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Safety ----- The Rising Concern in Sourcing Building Materials
Apr 2, 2019As a consumer, what’s the first word that comes to your mind in buying building materials? For me, it’s safety. Sounds a little puzzling? Compared with price, quality, design, I care more if the building material has bad impact ...
Tags: Building Materials
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AMD Ryzen Is Here with Intel-Busting Performance
Dec 15, 2016AMD releases more detail on its brand-new Ryzen CPU, and we're excited. AMD hasn't had us this excited about a new processor in a long time. For years, AMD seemed to have ceded the high-end processor crown to Intel, but the company is ...
Tags: AMD Ryzen.PC market
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NASA Finds Strong Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars
Dec 29, 2015U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
Tags: NASA, Liquid Water, Mars
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Improving Performance of Magnesium Doping for P-Type Gallium Nitride
Sep 16, 2015Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has been studying ways to improve the performance of p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) in terms of hole density and contact resistance with nickel/gold [Bo-Sheng Zheng et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol118, ...
Tags: nickel caps, Diodes, Electronics
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The Inventor Has Launched a Kickstarter Project
Jul 8, 2015The inventor has launched a Kickstarter project to funds his range of Puzzi Puzzles, featuring quirky connectors, such as animal or number shapes. A toy inventor is looking to rejuvenate the hobby sector with a new collection of titles ...
Tags: ToyNews, kickstarter, Puzzi Puzzles
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The New York Cotton Futures Prices Rebound This Week
Oct 13, 2014New York futures moved higher this week, with December advancing 209 points to close at 63.94 cents/lb, while March gained 174 points to close at 62.27 cents/lb. “After posting a low of 60.83 cents two weeks ago, nearby supply ...
Tags: Cotton, cash market
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Exclusive New Product Can Be Used for Both Its Original Purpose
Apr 17, 2014Exclusive new product can be used for both its original purpose, and as a freestanding lamp, lighting a room for two hours with a single charge. Online retailer, Firebox is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the humble Rubik’s ...
Tags: Firebox, Puzzling, Cube Light
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Ray Kurzweil Is One of The Most Accomplished Men of Our Time
Feb 12, 2014Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil is, undoubtedly, one of the most accomplished men of our time. Since getting his start at MIT in the late 1960s, his inventions have included the flatbed scanner, optical character resolution and ...
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Jumbo Games Is Marking National Puzzl Day by Offering a Month Long Promotion
Feb 8, 2014The firm is marking this special day by offering a month long promotion of 25 per cent discount on its Wasgij and Falcon puzzle brands. For those of you who haven't pieced it together, today is National Puzzle Day. And Jumbo Games is ...
Tags: Jumbo Games, Wasgij, Falcon, John Spilsbury
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Hay Trade in Oklahoma Remains Extremely Sluggish
Jan 23, 2014Even with a heavy dose of snow, ice and freezing temperatures early in the new year, the hay trade in Oklahoma remains extremely sluggish. That’s the observation of Jack Carson, market reporter for the Oklahoma Department of ...
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Not All Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) Play Nicely with The Nice Model
Jan 18, 2014The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System formation, ...
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Marine Cyanobacteria Forms The Base of The Ocean Food Chain
Jan 10, 2014Marine cyanobacteria—tiny ocean plants that produce oxygen and make organic carbon using sunlight and CO2—are primary engines of Earth's biogeochemical and nutrient cycles. They nourish other organisms through the provision of ...
Tags: marine cyanobacteria, ocean food chain, vesicles, gene transfer
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Another Modest Rise for Health Costs
Jan 8, 2014Americans' spending on health care rose a relatively modest 3.7 percent in 2012 -- slower than the growth of the overall economy -- dropping from 17.3 percent of U.S. spending to 17.2 percent, according to an annual report from the Centers ...
Tags: Health Care, Health Care Spending, Modest Rise For Health Costs
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Plywood Is a Manufactured Board of Odd Number of Thin Sheets of Wood
Oct 24, 2013Plywood is a manufactured board of odd number of thin sheets of wood. These sheets are known as piles or veneers. They are glued together under heat and pressure. The number of sheets used is odd, because the bottom and top sheet should ...
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UK Production Output Fell Sharply in August
Oct 11, 2013UK production output fell sharply in August, puzzling analysts who had expected only a slight dip. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) production output fell 1.5% in August, compared with the same month last year. ...
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