The survey, which looked at the situation of academic research in Israel, reveals that the average investment per Israeli investor averages USD 1.1 million. It is estimated that some USD 320 million were invested, to date, in academic research.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreUsing rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, where at a certain temperature two different states of liquid silicon exist.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreOn January 16, 1984, the memorandum of association of IMEC was signed, and on March 15, now exactly 25 years ago, IMEC appeared as newly established research center in the Belgian Statute Books.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreTo keep the manufacturing and the larger community well informed about what's radical and revolutionary in innovation, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announces its annual Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreThe Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles.
Mar 16th, 2009
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A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreHow does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is already working.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreAn international team of researchers has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
Mar 15th, 2009
Read moreSubmit a proposal either for a short oral presentation or for a poster contribution and present breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
Mar 14th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreResearchers were able to use an array of microelectrodes to follow the two-dimensional motion of a tiny, individual basalt sphere in space and time.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreA new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreImagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreThe process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised a greener way to take this important step in chemical catalysis.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreThree new experimental units for conducting materials research are being inaugurated today at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.
Mar 13th, 2009
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Scientists in Japan and Korea have developed a quantum theory that explains how temperature and quantum fluctuations - a direct consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle - affect the properties of materials called multiferroics.
Mar 12th, 2009
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