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Funding for nonhuman primate research questioned

A major review of nonhuman primate use in medical research has been conducted in the UK by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, who is the president of the Zoological Society of London and an ethnologist from Cambridge University, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth

There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 12

Barack Obama Announces Another $1.2 billion for Energy R&D

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3 weblog

Obama to reverse Bush limits on stem-cell research

US President Barack Obama will on Monday sign an executive order reversing Bush administration restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research, a senior administration official said.

Biology / Other

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 31

Revolving door: Yahoo ushers out another CEO (Update 4)

(AP) -- Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Tradable harvest quotas may save whales: study

Every year, a group of anti-whaling nonprofit organizations that includes Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, and the World Wildlife Fund spend, by conservative estimates, some $25 million on a variety of activities intended to end ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Fossil-fuel emissions unbraked by financial crisis

Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuels and the cement industry scaled a record high in 2010, rocketing by 5.9 percent over 2009 in a surge led by developing countries, scientists reported on Sunday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

UBC researchers provide recommendations for $100 billion in annual climate change aid

University of British Columbia researchers are providing recommendations for managing a $100 billion annual commitment made by the international community at last year's United Nations climate conference to help the developing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mathematically detecting bubbles before they burst

From the dotcom bust in the late nineties to the housing crash in the run-up to the 2008 crisis, financial bubbles have been a topic of major concern. Identifying bubbles is important in order to prevent collapses that can ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Internet takes 'distance-learning' into the Amazon

The Internet is letting a school sprout in the Amazon where teachers tend not to linger due to harsh living conditions and a scarcity of students.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Study shows overrepresented populations tend to receive disproportionate share of national funds

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), authors Tiberiu Dragu and Jonathan Rodden show that many of the world’s democracies aren’t n ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

US court halts government funding of stem cell research (Update)

A US court on Monday ordered a temporary halt to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which President Barack Obama had authorized, saying it involved the destruction of human embryos.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (15) | comments 278

Government delays new ban on Internet gambling

(AP) -- The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Biology, training and profit sharing make best traders

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Something to tweet about: Twitter valued at $1B

(AP) -- Twitter Inc.'s founders now have a billion-dollar baby, and they seem determined to raise it without a corporate parent.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Funding

Funding or financing is to provide capital (funds), which means money for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions.

Those funds can be allocated for either short term or long term purposes. The health fund is a new way of funding private healthcare centers.

For more information about Funding, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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