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Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions
November 24, 2009 5:14 am | CommentsScientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came into existence, they said on Monday. Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hope experiments will already start giving clues about the origins of the universe...
CO2 curve ticks upward as key climate talks loom
November 24, 2009 5:10 am | CommentsThe readings at this 2-mile-high station show a troubling upward curve as the world counts down to crucial climate talks: Global warming gases are building in the atmosphere at record levels from emissions that match scientists' worst-case scenarios.
Retailers look to stretch out Cyber Monday push
November 24, 2009 5:07 am | CommentsRetailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday - a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving - and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks. Target, Walmart, Toys R Us and others will be running online sales throughout the holiday weekend, with additional sales on Nov. 30, or Cyber Monday.
Informal meeting with EU ministers on the situation of GM reconfirms need for European coordination
November 24, 2009 4:54 am | by European Commission | CommentsThe meeting reconfirmed the consensus that EU rules (in particular on state aid and the Single Market) must be fully respected and that no national measures should be taken without prior information and coordination with other involved countries and the Commission. In this context it was...
Commission launches consultation on EU 2020: a new strategy to make the EU a smarter, greener social market
November 24, 2009 4:54 am | by European Commission | CommentsThe Commission today issued a public consultation document on giving the EU economy a brighter future through the EU 2020 Strategy. EU 2020 aims to deliver greener and socially inclusive growth, as outlined by President Barroso in his Political Guidelines. The consultation paper sets out...
CU search-and-rescue robots to compete internationally
November 23, 2009 1:54 pm | by Cornell University | CommentsIn early November, Cornell was named one of 10 semifinalists in the first Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge.
President Obama Launches Engineering Education Initiative
November 23, 2009 12:52 pm | by Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog | CommentsThe President announces the “Educate to Innovate” initiative, a campaign to get students excited about pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Quotes from President Obama from his speech – (see webcast above): “As President, I believe...
Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials
November 23, 2009 11:57 am | by EurekAlert | Comments(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating 3-D, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions.
Global TV Shipment Growth Recovered in Q3
November 23, 2009 11:41 am | CommentsGlobal TV shipments showed a spark of recovery in Q3’09 amid an easing global economic recession, reports DisplaySearch in its latest Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report.
Canada woman to fight insurance co. over Facebook
November 23, 2009 10:57 am | CommentsA Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party. Nathalie Blanchard said Monday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits until payments dried up this fall.
Digi-Key Corporation Announces Expansion of CTS Distribution Agreement to Include Tusonix Line
November 23, 2009 10:51 am | by Digi-Key | CommentsThief River Falls, Minnesota and Elkhart, Indiana (USA) — November 23, 2009 — Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, announced it has...
Informal meeting with EU ministers on the situation of GM on 23 November 2009 reconfirms need for European coordination
November 23, 2009 6:59 am | by European Commission | CommentsVice-President Günter Verheugen, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes and the Commissioner in charge of Employment, Vladimir Špidla have met today with ministers in charge of the automotive industry and with a representative of GM. The first part was dedicated to GM and an exchange of...
Intel Announces Increased Momentum for Personalized Care Management at Home with the Intel® Health Guide
November 23, 2009 6:53 am | by Intel | CommentsSANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 23, 2009 – The Intel® Health Guide, Intel Corporation's next-generation personal health system, continues to win in the personal health marketplace with the addition of a new government value-added reseller (VAR) and several new customers.
Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
November 23, 2009 6:33 am | CommentsSince the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated - beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic.
The Rise of Counterfeiting
November 23, 2009 6:05 am | CommentsThe rise of counterfeiting in recent years has been astounding. The U.S. economy loses some $250 billion annually with some three-quarters of a million jobs lost every year to what the Wall Street Journal has labeled as “nothing short of an economic crisis.”
