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9/1/10
| News
NanoEngineers at the University
of California, San Diego are designing new types of
lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that could be used in a variety of NASA
space
exploration projects. NEI Corporation and UC San Diego recently won a Phase II
Small
Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and implement
high
energy density cathode materials for lithium batteries.
Aug 20 | News
Sandia National
Laboratories has been selected as one of four institutions to develop
new
supercomputer prototype systems for the Defense Advanced Research
Projects
Agency (DARPA). To meet the increasing advanced computing needs for the
Department of Defense (DoD), DARPA launched the Ubiquitous High
Performance
Computing (UHPC) program.
Aug 4 | News
The California
Institute of Technology and the Canadian Space Agency announced
that they will be partnering on the development of the Mars Atmospheric
Trace
Molecule Occultation Spectrometer (MATMOS) instrument to be flown aboard
the
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter when it launches in 2016.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
The recession appears to have ended in most countries, with a return to positive economic and R&D growth. For most "advanced economies," this positive growth is likely to be relatively small, from 0.5% to 3.5% GDP growth.
2 hours ago | News
(University of California - San Diego) A research project involving the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a series of awards...
9 hours ago | News
(International AIDS Society) Following the imprisonment of Maxim Popov in April 2010, sentenced to 7 years jail primarily for the promotion of HIV prevention efforts in Uzbekistan, the International AIDS Society notes with alarm the detention of a medial practitioner working in HIV...
9 hours ago | News
(Technische Universitaet Muenchen) Computer scientist Andrey Rybalchenko is one of the world's top 35 innovators under 35 years of age, according to MIT's Technology Review. The prestigious "TR35" list for 2010 is published in the September/October issue of the magazine. The honor...
Sep 2 | News
(Burness Communications) With governments across Latin America preparing to implement a new financial mechanism aimed at mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions from the destruction of tropical forests, experts gathering here today warned against a "one-size-fits-all"...
Sep 2 | News
(Indiana University) Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities -- World of Warcraft gamers and Etsy artists -- as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked...
Sep 2 | News
(University of Maryland) A new report by University of Maryland terrorism researchers concludes that the deadly hostage-taking incident at the Discovery Networks in suburban Washington, D.C. meets the criteria of a terrorist act - a rare one for media organizations and the nation's...
Sep 2 | News
(University of East Anglia) A new discovery by scientists at the Universities of East Anglia and Frankfurt could make it possible in future to identify the source of banned CFCs that are probably still being released into the atmosphere. They have also discovered the largest...
Sep 2 | News
(Georgetown University Medical Center) Bold and coordinated leadership at the federal level is essential to create secure, long-term, sustainable biomedical research funding policies based on strategic priorities, say the authors of a commentary about America's fledgling biomedical...
Sep 2 | News
(Rice University) Rice University researchers have won a $1.8 million federal grant for one of the nation's first, real-world tests of technology that uses dynamic spectrum access -- including dormant broadcast television channels -- to deliver free, high-speed broadband Internet...
Sep 2 | News
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology has released a statement that expresses opposition to the Federal District Court injunction that froze federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. ARVO...