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High-tech innovations needed to help prevent economic crisis in health care and improve quality
Aug 22, 2008 |
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The United States should develop a comprehensive strategy on the growing need for technological innovations to help prevent the impending economic crisis in health care and to improve the quality and convenience of care, ...
What Comes After Hard Drives?
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...
Quantum technologies move a step closer with the demonstration of an 'entanglement' filter
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly ...
New technology being developed for use in Jordan desalination plant
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are developing technology to scale up a novel method for achieving very high recoveries in desalination by reverse osmosis to be used in a Jordanian desalinization plant.
Breakthrough vaccine to treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer
Mar 08, 2007 |
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Cancer Treatment Centers of America announced today its plans to launch a new cancer vaccine therapy that expands treatment options for thousands of women with advanced stage ovarian cancer. This innovative treatment will ...
Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity
Nov 06, 2007 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device.
Panasonic Develops High Energy Lithium-ion Battery Module with High Reliability
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Panasonic Corp. has developed a 1.5 kWh battery module from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used in laptop computers, to provide energy storage ...
Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...
IBM Research Unleashes Powerful Speech Software
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM today announced the availability of state-of-the-art speech recognition software to clients and partners exploring the development of real-world consumer and business solutions.
Researchers make progress in optimizing solid oxide fuel cells
Sep 17, 2009 |
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While our standard of life increases, so does the worldwide energy demand. In this vein, the application of technologies based on fuel cells is put forward as an alternative to the massive consumption of fossil fuels. One ...
Public attitudes to nanotechnology: Lessons for regulators
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 21, 2009 |
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New technologies may change our lives for the better, but sometimes they have risks. Communicating those benefits and risks to the public, and developing regulations to deal with them, can be difficult -- particularly if ...
Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential
Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new manufacturing approach holds the potential to overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, paving the way to smaller electronic ...
Growing Europe's nanowires
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial ...
In brief: A tiny, tunable well of light, and a string theorist's toolbox
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Promising photonic devices, and theorists attempt to determine whether particle physics and string theory can be reconciled.
Scientists pioneer new treatment for prostate cancer
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Scientists at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) are developing and commercializing a promising novel therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer that may offer patients a faster and more precise treatment than existing ...
