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The FDA's regulatory process is the major reason and a report calls it a threat to investment to U.S. medical innovation
Read More »VCs to Stem Med-Tech Investment
The FDA's regulatory process is the major reason and a report calls it a threat to investment to U.S. medical innovation.
Read More »Unlocking jams in fluid materials: A theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter
In a study recently published in European Physical Journal E (EPJE), a German scientist constructed a theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter that can be applied in food and cosmetics production.
Read More »India, 25 Others Oppose EU Airline Carbon Charge Plan
By Krittivas Mukherjee and Michael Szabo NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) - European Union plans to charge airlines for carbon emissions are "discriminatory" and violate global laws, a group of 26 countries including the United States and China said in a joint declaration released by the Indian government on Friday.
Read More »Farewell to the Tevatron
The top U.S. particle collider, now eclipsed by a more powerful European machine, will be switched off September 30 [More]
Read More »EU Lawmakers Call for Global Green Energy Targets
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - EU lawmakers recommended on Thursday including a call for global targets on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the European Union's negotiating position for next year's Rio+20 sustainability summit in June. "We should aim at globally binding targets," said Karl-Heinz Florenz, a member of the European Parliament who helped draft the resolution. [More]
Read More »The End Of Fish And Chips: Climate Change Causing Massive Changes In European Fisheries
There may be nothing new under the sun, but beneath the sea is a different story. Scientists studying 28 years of data from the Atlantic Ocean have found that climate change is causing drastic changes in fish populations off the European coast--and that's bad news for cold-loving species like cod, which have fed generations of Northern Europeans. The North Sea, a cold wind-swept patch of the Atlantic stretching from Scandinavia to the U.K., is warming four times faster than the global average.
Read More »Quantum teleportation analysed by mathematical separation tool
Scientists from the University of Vienna's Faculty of Physics in Austria recently gave a theoretical description of teleportation phenomena in sub-atomic scale physical systems, in a publication in the European Physical Journal D.
Read More »Meet The Video Game Lawyers
In the high-stakes corporate tort system, an elite squad of legal eagles handle lawsuits dealing with "World of Warcraft," "FarmVille," and others in the big business of video games. These are their stories. Some lawyers deal with corporate torts
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 »Scientists stunned, sceptical on faster-than-light particles
Physicists around the world expressed astonishment and scepticism in equal measure Friday after European scientists reported particles apparently travelling faster than light.
Read More »Astronaut Ron Garan On His Harrowing Landing, Innovations In Outer Space, And Tweeting From The Final Frontier
In an extended interview, astronaut Ron Garan speaks with Fast Company about his nerve-wracking return to earth, what technology startups should develop for space travel, and life on the International Space Station. "We really need to start not just exploring space," Garan says, "but utilizing space." NASA astronaut Ron Garan has an amazing story to tell.
Read More »All Aboard! All-Electric German Bus-Tram-Train Hybrid Coming Soon
The AutoTram, which uses an innovative charging system to allow the most charges in the fastest amount of time, is a result of a series of experiments about the best way to power public transit. Is it a bus?
Read More »Britain & Ireland beats Continental Europe
Britain & Ireland held off a strong effort from Continental Europe in singles to retain the Vivendi Seve Trophy 15½ to 12½.
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