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Energy Secretary Steven Chu observed Wednesday the DuPont Co.'s work on biofuels during a visit to the company's experimental station in Wilmington.Chu joined DuPont executives for a tour of a biofuels lab after giving a speech at TechCon, an annual weeklong meeting of DuPont scientists and...
4 hours ago
Scotland Yard says it's equipping its officers with hand-held fingerprint devices, something the force says will help identify suspects in a matter of seconds.Britain's largest force says that it has distributed 350 of the cell phone-sized devices to officers across various parts of London,...
The federal government has approved two programs to further test the impact of flooding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and to help boost the native fish population.Since the 1960s, Glen Canyon Dam near the Arizona-Utah border has blocked 90 percent of sediment from the river from...
A Chinese employee of a Massachusetts company has been charged in federal court with smuggling into China $6.5 million worth of equipment that can be used to enrich and produce weapons-grade uranium.Qiang "Johnson" Hu, a representative from Andover-based MKS Instruments Inc.'s sales office in...
Tax prep company H&R Block Inc. said Wednesday that it named Gregory J. Macfarlane, a former executive at Ceridian Corp. and General Electric Co., as its chief financial officer as its current CFO takes a new job at the company.The appointment is effective June 4. CFO Jeff Brown is...
5 hours ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and military leaders implored conservative Republicans on Wednesday to approve a long-spurned high seas treaty, saying it would create jobs, open a new path to oil, gas and other resources and bolster national security.Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon...
U.S. safety officials have added the 2012 model year to an investigation of engine fires in the Chevrolet Cruze.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said last month it was investigating the 2011 Cruze because of two complaints of fires that engulfed the compact cars.In documents...
6 hours ago
An appeal filed in the California Supreme Court says two state appellate court justices owned stock in Boeing Co. while involved in deciding whether to reverse a multimillion-dollar award against the firm.The legal challenge Tuesday by ICO Global Communications says the justices removed...
Southwest Airlines Co. promises to pay for $100 million in airport improvements so that it can launch international flights from Houston's Hobby Airport.With the Southwest pledge, Houston Mayor Annise Parker endorsed the expansion of Hobby, which is smaller but closer to downtown than Bush...
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Apr 16
As R&D Magazine prepares for the 50th annual R&D 100 Awards, the editors take a stroll through the awards history, and invite former winners to join them.
Apr 3
The editors of R&D Magazine have extended the submission deadline for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards to April 30, 2012, at 11:59 pm, eastern U.S. time. This is the FINAL DEADLINE. We cannot accept entries after that time.
NIH bikes to work. For transcripts of this and other NIH Clinical Center podcasts, visit http://www.cc.nih.gov/podcast/
May 21
In a follow-up to our previous interviews with co-creator of "The Big Bang Theory," Bill Prady, we interviewed Dr. David Saltzberg, the show's resident astrophysicist and science consultant. Find out more about his research, adventures in astrophysics, and how he keeps the science of the...
Apr 12
According to JEOL Resonance, a new benchmark for resolution and benchmark will be set with its introduction next week of a new 0.75-mm solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe. The probe is capable of high resolution sample analysis by spinning the sample at 110 kHz, the world's fastest spinning speed for NMR.
12/1/2011
Nextreme Thermal Solutions has developed two new energy harvesting subsystems for the plumbing and HVAC industries. The subsystems are the latest additions to Nextreme's Thermobility energy harvesting platform that uses thin-film thermoelectric technology to convert available thermal energy into electric power for a variety of autonomous self-powered applications.
12 hours ago
Torrey Pines Scientific Inc. has announced a new line of multi-position analog stirring hot plates and stirrers featuring five or nine stirring positions.
Phenomenex Inc. has introduced Phree phospholipid removal plates for fast cleanup of plasma samples in pharmaceutical and clinical research laboratories. In one step, Phree removes both proteins and phospholipids and delivers the prepared plasma to a collection plate.
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