Mixed views on Samsung after stellar 2013
For Samsung Electronics and its 270,000 employees across the globe, 2013 was the best year.
Business
Jan 24, 2014
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The ties that bind: Recreating Darwinian ligand evolution in vitro
(Phys.org) —A key feature of certain chemicals is their ability to bind to other molecules – a property that emerged through evolution – but current chemical theory lacks the ability to design binders from first principles. ...
Would ending Net neutrality mean a better Web or a digital divide?
Nathan Benjamin runs a Kansas City-based company designed to connect builders and remodelers with recycled and reusable windows, doors and other fixtures.
Telecom
Jan 24, 2014
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Researchers design catalysts with nanotechnology to reduce vehicular pollution
Maya Mexican oil type has up to 30 parts per million of sulfur, labeling it as heavy oil, meaning, too pollutant for the environment when used as raw material for fuels. Looking to reduce the national hydrocarbon emissions, ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 24, 2014
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Where does the pathological misfolding of the prion originate?
"When they are healthy, they look like tiny spheres; when they are malignant, they appear as cubes" stated Giuseppe Legname, principal investigator of the Prion Biology Laboratory at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di ...
Biochemistry
Jan 24, 2014
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Rainforests in Far East shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years
New research from Queen's University Belfast shows that the tropical forests of South East Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years.
Environment
Jan 24, 2014
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Snow falls differently on the nanoscale
This time of year it's not hard to imagine the world buried under a smooth blanket of snow. A picnic table on a flat lawn eventually vanishes as trillions of snowflakes collect around it, a crystalline sheet obscuring the ...
Nanophysics
Jan 24, 2014
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Dead as a dodo? Scientists spot rare Samoan species
A team of government researchers in Samoa has announced that it has finally sighted a juvenile Manumea bird (also known as the tooth-billed pigeon or little dodo) during an intensive field search in the forests of Savai'i, ...
Ecology
Jan 24, 2014
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Mining no shortcut for Greenland
The report, titled "For the Benefit of Greenland" and authored by a wide range of specialists making up the Committee for Greenlandic Mineral Resources to the Benefit of Society, concludes that, contrary to the hopes of many ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2014
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Plant scientists unravel a molecular switch to stimulate leaf growth
Cell division is essential for growth and development of all multicellular organisms. In plants, leaf growth consists of two different phases. A first phase is characterized by intense cell division, which leads to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 24, 2014
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