News tagged with research infrastructure

Counting down to the Transit of Venus - our nearest exoplanet test-lab

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three months before the last transit of Venus this century, scientists are gathering at the Observatoire de Paris to finalise their observation plans in a workshop supported by the Europlanet ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The rail and road network in Spain does not follow economic criteria, but central

A researcher at the University of Barcelona has examined the construction of surface transportation infrastructure in Spain from 1720 to 2010. The economist and author of the study, Germà Bel explains ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

LinkedIn opens India R&D centre

LinkedIn Corporation said Tuesday it had opened a research and development centre in India, the US-based professional online networking site's first such office outside North America.

Technology / Business

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BlackBerry outages persist into third day, spread to North America

BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

EU to build most powerful laser ever in Prague

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of the European Union's commitment to remaining at the forefront of technology, the European Commission (the governing body of the European Union) has laid out plans for three initial ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Motorola says separation on track

Motorola said Thursday it was on track to split into two separate companies next year, one focusing on handsets and the other on professional safety equipment.

Technology / Business

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Belief, how European e-Infrastructure makes a difference (w/ Video)

Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of great strength, especially in e-Science and grid technology, such as the GÉANT network ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cloud computing brings cost of protein research down to Earth

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center in Milwaukee have just made the very expensive and promising area of protein research more accessible to scientists worldwide.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

San Diego Supercomputer Center begins cloud computing research using the Google-IBM CluE cluster

Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore new ways for academic researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0