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12/16/11
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Global R&D spending will increase in 2012 with continued strong
growth in emerging
economies and stable growth in established economies.
Apr 23 | News
As
cyber attacks worsen and the tactics employed by hackers grow more
nefarious, Congress is being asked to consider legislation to improve
defenses for government, municipal, and corporate networks. However, the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are applying
pressure from the other side, saying the rules would cost money without
improving risk.
Apr 4 | News
Why don't more women enter the male-dominated profession of engineering? Some observers have speculated it may be due to the difficulties of balancing a demanding career with family life. Others have suggested that women may not rate their own technical skills highly enough. However, a recent paper, based on a four-year study of female engineering students, offers a different story.
17 hours ago | News
NLT Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, Renesas Electronics America Inc. and Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH, announced the successful development of three mid-size color LCD modules based on projected capacitive touch panel technology.
18 hours ago | News
According
to recent data released by Google, the search engine giant has logged
more than 2.5 million requests in the last 11 months to remove links
believed to be violating Microsoft’s copyrights. This exceeded the
number of complaints about material produced by entertainment companies
pushing for tougher online piracy laws.
May 24 | News
NASA
has hired Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to deliver cargo to the
International Space Station, but will eventually add astronauts. And the
space agency is hiring other companies, too. Several
firms—at least eight—think they can make money in space and are close
enough to Musk's company to practically surf in his spaceship's
rocket-fueled wake.
May 24 | News
The unilateral efforts of a single country or region to
reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases could reduce exports, increase
imports
and lead to higher emissions elsewhere—what economists call "leakage."
Unilateral efforts could, however, work better if other sources of
energy were
used as substitutes, thereby creating "negative leakage," according to
research
by University of Illinois energy policy experts.
May 24 | News
U.S. factories produce
about 75% of what the country consumes, but the right decisions by both
business and political leaders could push that to 95%, say University of
Michigan researchers.
May 24 | News
The Morgan Crucible Company plc announced the signing of a joint development agreement between its wholly owned subsidiary, MorganAM&T Inc., and Boston-Power Inc. to accelerate development and commercialization of MorganAM&T's advanced anode technologies based on metal-loaded carbon nanoparticles.
May 23 | News
Gasoline prices this summer could stay relatively steady provided that
an
already-tense Middle East doesn't flare up and nothing else happens to
disrupt
supplies, a Purdue
University economist
says.
May 23 | News
A new study by civil engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that using stiffer pavements on the nation's roads could reduce vehicle fuel consumption by as much as 3%—a savings that could add up to 273 million barrels of crude oil per year, or $15.6 billion at today's oil prices. This would result in an accompanying annual decrease in carbon dioxide emissions of 46.5 million metric tons.
May 18 | News
The
U.S. government has been pushing doctors to e-prescribe, in part
because it can be safer for patients. Now, more than a third of the
nation's prescriptions now are electronic, and starting this year,
holdouts will start to see cuts in their Medicare payments.
May 18 | News
Naval Research Laboratory scientists have obtained a first-ever measured altitude profile of a dim extreme-ultraviolet terrestrial airglow emission that provides vital information needed to test and improve the accuracy of advanced techniques for remote sensing of the daytime ionosphere. They have obtained this altitude profile using scans from the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS) experiment.
