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ADMET Inc. is celebrating 20 years in business by offering a free, turnkey biomedical or biomaterials testing system valued at up to $30,000 to a company or university operating in the United States.
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The sputtering alternative-energy market, which has been mired in a deep slump for at least the last six months, is showing some signs of recovery.
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In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and innovation for long-term competitive advantage.
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Human resources transformation refers to the massive restructuring of corporate human resources (HR) departments that took place in the decade or so after 1995. Before that, the staff in HR departments had generally been seen as administrators, not as people to be involved in high-level strategic discussions. HR staff saw themselves as lifetime career specialists with little need for knowledge or experience of what the rest of the business was about.
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Officials of the Department of Energy and UT-Battelle broke ground Wednesday on a $95 million Chemical and Materials Sciences facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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For six years, Pittsburg State and Cargill have worked tirelessly to create new polyols. On Thursday, the two took a break for a day to document that partnership.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced it is running a search for the oldest Thermo Scientific Multiskan microplate photometer in use.
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In 2006 Mario Lebrato and Daniel Jones of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, were using a remotely operated deep-sea vehicle to study the sea floor near an oil pipeline off Cte dIvoire. What they found surprised them. It was a thaliacean graveyard. And its discovery throws into question the received wisdom about one important aspect of climate change, namely how much carbon from the atmosphere ends up at the bottom of the sea.
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In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass a permanent antifogging coating.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) made its first major award under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to construct the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV).
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) have agreed on a final cleanup action (called a remedy) for the inactive High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
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U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist Tiffany Santos has been awarded a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science for her work in materials science at the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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