Monorails used to be the vision of futuristic travel. Now, that mode of transit has been mostly reduced to inter-terminal airport travel and family theme parks. Take a step back in time and gander at these bullet-shaped babies in action. More »
You could go to Barcelona and Paris, make out with foreign strangers, and post lots of Facebook photo albums about it. Or, you could check out this enormous, 157 square foot Lego map of the continent. It's at least cheaper. More »
The PhD thesis by Carlos Echeverria Arrondo, Doctor in Physics from the Public University of Navarre and entitled 'On doped semiconductor quantum dots and magnetic nanowires', studies the behaviour and properties of nanometric-scale semiconductor crystals.
Physiker der TU Graz publizierten ihre neuesten Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Halbleitertechnologie: Sie beantworteten auf Basis einer quantenmechanischen Simulation grundlegende Fragen zur Aenderung von Grenzflaecheneigenschaften von Elektrodenmaterialien mit organischen Molekuelen.
Dubbed 'Innovation and Nanotechnology,, the project will see the creation of a dedicated newswire and section of highly popular RIA Novosti website.
PhDGermany - the platform for doctoral positions and research opportunities in Germany is the latest service offered by the DAAD and is aimed at attracting international doctoral candidates.
Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary drug-delivery platforms to develop treatments in areas of oncology, cancer supportive care and diabetes, announced it has entered into a pre-licensing feasibility agreement with a leading biopharmaceutical company to develop an oral formulation of an undisclosed prostate cancer compound utilizing its proprietary vitamin B-12-based CobOral Drug Delivery Technology.
Michigan Technological University's Physics Department sees itself poised on the brink of greatness. Richard and Elizabeth Henes agree. Longtime and generous supporters of Michigan Tech, the couple has donated another $700,000 to the University to upgrade research facilities in Fisher Hall, including infrastructure improvements.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is using the NanoSight LM10-HS system to study self-assembled polymer/DNA particles for drug delivery.
Carl Zeiss SMS GmbH, a leading supplier for photomask metrology and repair tools and Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced a collaboration to support the ZEISS tool family for in-die metrology solutions for the 32-nanometer technology node and below.
Shocking Technologies, Inc. has received notification from Underwriters Laboratories that it has been awarded 94V-0 certification for its XStaticTM100 product, a voltage switchable dielectric (VSD) material.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research today announced it will award approximately $16.5 million in grants to 43 scientists and engineers who submitted winning research proposals through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program.
Recognizing the innovative ideas of today's college and university students, the Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of Invent Now, announced that a way to implant human liver cells in mice to facilitate drug testing and a way to manufacture composite structural poles have won top honors in this year's competition.
A team of professors at Arizona State University, including three faculty members of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, has received a quarter-million-dollar federal grant to pursue their research of nanotechnology regulation.
Lumerical Solutions Inc., a global provider of nanophotonic design software, today unveiled innovative improvements to its flagship product FDTD Solutions 7.0. Improvements to FDTD Solutions 7.0 include an integrated parameter sweep and optimization environment, industry's first conformal mesh for nanophotonic design, an extended set of simulation primitives to facilitate the design of complex devices and support for Mac OS X.
Aculon is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed a patent covering its method for applying organometallic film to substrates, which has been perfected by the company over the past 6 years.
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For Congress, I think that the breakdown will be:
Senate – 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats
House – 240 Republicans, 195 Democrats
My reasoning? I just took FiveThirtyEight’s numbers and shaded them a bit to the Republican side. There’s no point in making predictions unless you predict something novel and a bit off expectations. Additionally, since the readership here leans a little Left I am inclined to tweak you guys a bit and make the political Götterdämmerung even more terrifying, though I didn’t want to push my luck and give you an implausible value which you’d reject on the face of it.
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The last 24 hours of the initial sample collection phase of the Dodecad Ancestry Project are upon us. So if you have raw 23andMe data, you got a day to send it in, if you’re of the following groups:
-Greeks (not necessarily from Greece: Cypriots, Pontic Greeks from the former USSR, North Epirotes, Griko speakers from Italy, -Muslim rumca speakers from Turkey, etc. are all accepted)
-People from the Balkans
-People from Anatolia
-People from the Caucasus
-Italians
-Non-Indo-European speakers from Europe (e.g., Finns, Hungarians, Basques)
-Scandinavians and Icelanders
-Iranians
-Armenians
-Jews from Italy, the Balkans, or Anatolia
-Assyrians
-Arabs
The point of the project is to get a better picture of genetic variation in Eurasia, especially in undersampled groups.
