What happens when developers conceive grand plans and run smack into the realities of the Great Recession? In the case of the 280-room Palmyra Resort, a luxury property in Montego Bay, Jamaica, once valued at $150 million, the property ends up on the auction block.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The past decade has seen the emergence of the field of spintronics, aimed at increasing the efficiency of information processing and computer memories. The idea behind spintronics is to harness the magnetic property of the electron, referred to as its spin. This property can then be used, in addition to the electron charge, for increasing the functionality of the semiconductor computer chip, in terms of its capacity to store and process information.
Read More »Sneak Peek: The Conservatorium, Amsterdam
Amsterdam’s former Sweelinck Conservatorium is now home to a 129-room hotel. Fittingly named the Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam, the property opened earlier this month
Read More »A Second Chance to Own Safra Collectibles
Following the popular Property from the Collections of Lily and Edmond J. Safra auction in 2005, Sotheby’s is holding a second sale under the same title, with an estimated combined value of $40 million
Read More »How to License In Intellectual Property
When your company needs to use a process, concept, toolor really anything that's protected by a patent, copyright, or trademarkhere's how to license it, and avoid legal trouble. The world of intellectual property has suffered a shake up in the Internet age
Read More »Solving the mysteries of astrophysics: Ultracold neutrons
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have built what is currently the strongest source of ultracold neutrons. Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) were first generated here five years ago.
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