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ChemChina 'eyeing Syngenta' in biggest ever Chinese takeover

Feb 02, 2016 (AFP)

China National Chemical Corp is closing in on a $43 billion deal to buy the Swiss pesticide giant Syngenta, according to reports Tuesday, which would be the big...

Will Space Debris be Responsible for World War III?

Feb 01, 2016 (SPX)

In recent weeks there has been a bit of speculation that collisions between active satellites and space debris could spark WW III. Vitaly Adushkin from the Russ...

NASA Engineers Tapped to Build First Integrated-Photonics Modem

Jan 31, 2016 (SPX)

A NASA team has been tapped to build a new type of communications modem that will employ an emerging, potentially revolutionary technology that could transform ...

Harnessing the oxidising power of air

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers report the catalysis of a highly specific chemical reaction where oxygen from the air is one ingredient and the other, an organic molecule, is selec...

Researchers develop completely new kind of polymer

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can...

DuPont announces breakthrough platform technology for long sought-after molecule

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Today, science and agricultural leaders DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced a new breakthrough process wit...

Novel 4-D printing method blossoms from botanical inspiration

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and...

Energy harvesting via smart materials

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Energy harvesting is emerging as a viable method for electronic devices to pull ambient energy from their surrounding environment and convert it into electrical...

A new quantum approach to big data

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

From gene mapping to space exploration, humanity continues to generate ever-larger sets of data - far more information than people can actually process, manage,...

Breakthrough enables ultra-fast transport of electrical charges in polymers

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

A research team at Umea University in Sweden has showed, for the first time, that a very efficient vertical charge transport in semiconducting polymers is possi...

For this nanocatalyst reaction, one atom makes a big difference

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Combining experimental investigations and theoretical simulations, researchers have explained why platinum nanoclusters of a specific size range facilitate the ...

Imaged 'jets' reveal cerium's post-shock inner strength

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Recent synchrotron advances and the development of dynamic compression platforms have created the ability to investigate extreme states of matter on short times...

Apple quietly working on virtual reality: report

Jan 29, 2016 (AFP)

Apple has a team secretly working on virtual and augmented reality gear in a budding challenge to Facebook-owned Oculus Rift and Microsoft HoloLens, the Financi...

Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting

Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh and collaborators Tony Jun Huang from the Pennsylvania State University and Ming Dao fr...

Lockheed Martin UK supplying radar to Royal Navy

Jan 28, 2016 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems UK is to supply more than 60 new navigation radars to the Royal Navy under a Ministry of Defense contract. The radars will be...

Designing a pop-up future

Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)

What if you could make any object out of a flat sheet of paper? That future is on the horizon thanks to new research by L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpin...

Mysterious behavior of quantum liquid elucidated, a world first

Jan 27, 2016 (SPX)

In cooperation with researchers from Osaka City University and the University of Tokyo, researchers at Osaka University, through their precise measurement of cu...

Material may offer cheaper alternative to smart windows

Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)

If you've ever blown up a balloon or pulled at a pair of pantyhose, you may have noticed that the more the material stretches, the more transparent it becomes. ...

Laser Debris Shields

Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)

Optical Surfaces Ltd. is a leading supplier of laser debris shields (also known as protective windows or cover slides) to protect target-facing optics located i...

Chanel swaps bling for eco-inspired haute couture

Jan 26, 2016 (AFP)

Languid models strutting along a grass-covered catwalk in Paris on Tuesday showed off Chanel's ecologically-inspired haute couture collection that avoided most ...