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Digital Democracy: The World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency

Digital Democracy: The World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- On May 21, the day the White House unveiled its Open Government Initiative, it also launched the website data.gov, which put information like Medicare cost reports, residential energy consumption ...


Sensoring the World Wide Web

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.


Consortium Established to Develop 'TransferJet' Wireless Technology

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Several major telecom giants today announced an agreement to form a consortium to develop specifications for "TransferJet" - a new interoperable wireless transfer technology that enables rapid transfer of high resolution ...





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Computing in the quantum dimension

Computing in the quantum dimension

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum ...


Europe's top dailies in 10 languages online

Technology / Internet

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The European Commission and a media consortium launched Tuesday an Internet site allowing people to read articles about Europe from the world's top newspapers in 10 languages.


Scientists find genetic marker associated with ovarian cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new genetic marker associated with ovarian cancer risk was recently discovered by an international research group, led by scientists from the Cancer Research Genetic Epidemiology Unit in the United Kingdom. Drs. Marc Goodman, ...


TB vaccine enters new clinical trials

TB vaccine enters new clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, is to enter Phase IIb proof-of-concept clinical trials, making it the first TB candidate vaccine ...


Major international study challenges notions of how genes are controlled in mammals

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the Omics Science Center (OSC) of the RIKEN Yokohama Institute in Japan - along with researchers from McGill University and other institutions worldwide - are challenging current notions of how genes are controlled ...


International team cracks mammalian gene control code

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international consortium of scientists, including researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ), have probed further into the human genome than ever before.


New Web site aims to deepen public knowledge of omega-3s

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hoping to broaden understanding about the benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids, a Purdue University-based international consortium has launched a Web site and newsletter campaign to educate the public, physicians and veterinarians. ...


Researcher develop new technique for modifying plant genes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Massachusetts General Hospital have used a genome engineering tool they developed to make a model crop plant herbicide-resistant without significant changes to its DNA.


News Corp. chief digital officer Jonathan Miller speaks with The Hollywood Reporter in New York in June 2009

News Corp. seeking to form online news consortium: LAT

Technology / Internet

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Media giant News Corp. is holding talks with other newspaper publishers on forming a consortium that would charge for news online and on portable devices, The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.


Researchers isolate first 'neuroprotective' gene in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A genetic variant that substantially improves survival of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has been indentified by a consortium of researchers led by John Landers, ...



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