Applied Sciences
Fast and efficient biologically inspired catalyst could someday make fuel cells cheaper.
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Online Social Networking at Work Can Improve Morale and Reduce Employee Turnover, According to Study
By allowing employees to participate in a work-sponsored internal social networking site, a company can improve morale and reduce turnover, according to a Baylor University case study published in the European Journal of Information Systems.
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Food Safety Tech, the organizers of Food Labs Conference, which will be held in conjunction with Pittcon 2013, March 19-20, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, announces the agenda of speakers for the two-day event.
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LANL's quantum cryptography team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.
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In the most comprehensive report in a half century, experts today described fundamental changes needed in the education of the scientists whose work impacts medicine, drug discovery and virtually every other discipline.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the first step in the development of a Cybersecurity Framework, which will be a set of voluntary standards and best practices to guide industry in reducing cyber risks to the networks and computers that are vital to the nation's economy, security and daily life.
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Learn how you can meet your lab’s sustainability goals with this informative webinar led by an architect and engineer with combined experience of over 40 years in laboratory design.
Available on DemandSurprising breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics, solar cell efficiency.
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A team of researchers from Michigan are characterizing simple, cheap measurements of labile soil organic matter that could predict the performance of corn crops and help farmers optimize their cropping systems.
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Two of the most widely used nanoparticles (NPs) accumulate in soybeans — second only to corn as a key food crop in the United States — in ways previously shown to have the potential to adversely affect the crop yields and nutritional quality, a new study has found.
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As part of President’s Obama’s all-of-the-above approach to American energy, the U.S. Departments of Energy and the Treasury today announced the availability of $150 million in Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy and energy efficiency manufacturing projects across the United States.
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The weakest link in many computer networks is a gullible human. With that in mind, Sandia National Laboratories computer science researcher Jeremy Wendt wants to figure out how to recognize potential targets of nefarious emails and put them on their guard.
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