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Could it happen here? That was the big question in the U.S.
Read More »Beams to order from table-top accelerators
Laser plasma accelerators offer the potential to create powerful electron beams within a fraction of the space required by conventional accelerators and at a fraction of the cost.
Read More »Volkswagen on Road to Carbon-Free Car
LONDON (Reuters) - Volkswagen will within two weeks unveil one of the first single-seater cars, with the potential for zero emissions, the Financial Times reported on Monday. VW's one-seat concept car will illustrate the carmaker's ambitions to build electric vehicles that generate no carbon dioxide, the FT said, citing the company's head of research, Jurgen Leohold. [More]
Read More »5 Steps To Get Your Business Ready For Mastering Google Plus
B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media , unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn’t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well
Read More »Five Ways To Solve The Diabetes Crisis With Data-Driven Design
The five semi-finalists of the Data Design Diabetes Challenge have made apps to help manage and curtail the United States's growing epidemic. A staggering one in four Americans suffer from diabetes, making it one of the biggest health epidemics in the U.S
Read More »In Lithuania, They Give Parking Tickets With Tanks
The outraged mayor of Vilnius is sick of cars parking in his bike lanes. So sick of them, he's now crushing them personally. The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, was sick of cars parking in no parking zones and bike lanes
Read More »Stanford Brings Affordable Medical Innovation To India Through Collaborative Design
The future of U.S. medical-device design may reside in developing countries. In India, where a chaotic road system spawns many accidents and hospitals are often hours away, the need for an inexpensive alternative vascular access is great.
Read More »IBM Tackles Personalized Medicine’s Big Data Challenge, One Genome At A Time
One human's genome represents a large chunk of data. Put a lot of genomes together and it starts to become unmanageable
Read More »Economists Find Flaws in Federal Estimate of Climate Damage
Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.
Read More »25 Tesla, world-record ‘split magnet’ makes its debut
A custom-built, $2.5 million "split magnet" system with the potential to revolutionize scientific research in a variety of fields has made its debut at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University.
Read More »Learning from Insect Swarms: Smart Cancer Targeting
Research published in Nature Materials this month takes lessons from cooperation in nature, including that observed in insect swarms, to create better targeting methods for cancer therapeutics [1]. "Smart" anti-cancer drug systems can use mechanisms similar to swarm intelligence to locate sites of disease in the human body.
Read More »The New Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure: Filling Stations At Quick Lube Shops
When hydrogen-powered cars hit the market in 2014, it's going to be hard to find fuel. But solar-powered hydrogen fueling startup SunHydro has a plan to quickly ramp up filling stations. We spend a lot of time talking about the possibilities for a large scale battery electric vehicle charging infrastructure , but what about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles?
Read More »"Virtual Cane" Lets Visually Impaired Navigate Via Sonar
A new prototype device allows the visually impaired to more easily walk the streets using sonar-like technology to create an impromptu spatial picture. Blind and visually impaired individuals may soon be walking easier with “virtual canes.” A new device developed by a team affiliated with Israel's Hebrew University allows users to detect all objects within 10 meters for safe navigation. The cane uses sonar-like technology, turning users into virtual batmen and batwomen
Read More »Should You Self-Fund Your Employee Health Benefits?
More small businesses are choosing to pay out-of-pocket for employee health claims, rather than a fixed monthly premium to an insurance carrier. Here are the pros and cons. As insurance premiums skyrocket and uncertainty surrounds the 2010 health care reform bill, small and mid-sized companies are increasingly looking to contain a spiraling employee health bill
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