The sea ice is getting thinner
This release is available in German . The sea-ice is getting thinner - A closer look at the climate and ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean Bremerhaven, September 13, 2007. Large areas of the Arctic sea-ice are only one metre thick this year, equating to an approximate 50 percent thinning as com...RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea
Acts of piracy and terrorism at sea are on the rise, but there is little evidence to support concerns from some governments and international organizations that pirates and terrorists are beginning to collude with one another, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. The objectives o...RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea
Acts of piracy and terrorism at sea are on the rise, but there is little evidence to support concerns from some governments and international organizations that pirates and terrorists are beginning to collude with one another, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. The objectives o...Deep sea event will put spotlight on Internet 2 capabilities
Jason 2 Dive Tracks Source: Visions 2005 Madison, Wis. - Say the word "teleconferencing" and people are likely to think of postage stamp size videos of staid corporate meetings, running over MSN Messenger or iChat. So how about high-definition video of the seafloor? Audiences will have th...DEMO 2006: A sea change is coming
With less than three months until DEMO 2006, the screening and selection process for the next conferences demonstrating class is well under way. A bit more than one-third of the class has been identified, and Ill be busy until Christmas sifting through hundreds more applications to bring the tota...Finding Safe Harbor in a sea of electronic discovery
In Part I of this series on e-discovery, we discussed the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which require parties to address and resolve issues regarding the discovery of electronically stored information ("ESI"). Without a plan of attack or a system of satisfying your obligat...Biotech Hot in July Driven by Positive Drug Data and Acquisitions
...gress of the global biotechnology industry and annual "State of the Industry" report the latest of which is Biotech 2009-Life Sciences: Navigating the sea Change, the 23rd annual report on the industry. The 470-plus page book contains analysis and perspectives on the performance of the industry in 2008 a...Joao Paulo Baptista Joins Burrill & Company
... of the global biotechnology industry and our annual "State of the Industry" report, the latest of which is Biotech 2009-Life Sciences: Navigating the sea Change, the 23rd annual report on the industry. The 470-plus page book contains analysis and perspectives on the performance of the industry in 2008 a...Burrill & Company Invests in Taiwan Liposome Company
...gress of the global biotechnology industry and annual "State of the Industry" report the latest of which is Biotech 2009-Life Sciences: Navigating the sea Change, the 23rd annual report on the industry. The 470-plus page book contains analysis and perspectives on the performance of the industry in 2008 a...Government Mandates Create Guaranteed Market for Bio-Fuel, Says Frost & Sullivan
....com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO ) While the sea region is still a nascent market for bio-diesel, t...countries, especially Malaysia and Singapore, some sea countries are developing domestic markets. Ac...straining market growth," she added. In 2008, sea countries had a total production capacity of above...Shawn Cross Joins Burrill Merchant Banking
... of the global biotechnology industry and our annual "State of the Industry" report, the latest of which is Biotech 2009-Life Sciences: Navigating the sea Change, the 23rd annual report on the industry. The 470-plus page book contains analysis and perspectives on the performance of the industry in 2008 a...Campaign to Increase the Awareness and Understanding of Lou Gehrig's Disease Reaches 22 U.S. States
...Michelle Dupree, a volunteer ALS TDI Advisory Council member. Ms. Dupree has helped to organize several BBQ For ALS Awareness events in the greater sea Bright, N.J. area where she lives. Michelle became one of the first ALS TDI Ambassadors shortly after her friend Pam Callahan was diagnosed with the ...New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground
...e up with an explanation as to where and how North sea oil clings to underground rocks. This explanation ... has investigated drill cores collected from North sea oil fields using an atomic force microscope. Their... which contain oil in the Danish part of the North sea are primarily chalk the same type of rock that th...American Geographical Society awards honor Henson, Smith on April 15 at UD
...d Commander Robert Peary on the 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Born in Charles County, Md., Henson became an adventurer early in life, going to sea at the age of 12 as a cabin boy aboard a merchant ship. In 1887, while working as a stock clerk in Washington, D.C., he met Peary, then a U.S. Navy li...Genomic Study Shows Organic Skin Care Product Activates Key Anti-Aging Gene
...heir hands and stroking it to maintain a youthful look. In addition to Baltic Amber, Ambra-Lift™ contains other beneficial ingredients including sea Buckthorn Oil, Soybean Lecithin Liposomes, Amino Acids, Vitamins C, A, and E; Coenzyme Q-10, and extracts of the finest organic botanicals. &quo...News Release: Homeland Security to Take Centre Stage with Global Security Asia 2009
... homeland security, including Security Screening, Biometrics, Land, Air and sea Security, Internet and Computer Security, Intelligence and Training Methods...nd Security covering areas of Security Screening, Biometrics, Land, Air and sea Security, Internet and Computer Security, Intelligence and Training Methods...DoD Leader to Address Presidential Biometrics Security Directive at NDIA Conference
...States, local and tribal authorities. The Federal Government has responsibility for 115 airports, 14 seaports, 150 land ports, 220 consulates and two sea borders and the two land borders with numerous waterways. HSPD-24 is challenged by multiple jurisdictions, different technologies and policies. N...Stanford: Quantum computing spins closer
...s had to find a single, specific photon emitted from the qubit in order confirm the spin state of the electron. That photon, however, was clouded in a sea of scattered photons from the lasers themselves. "The big benefit is to make quantum computing faster," Press said. The experiment "pushed quantum ...Sea urchin yields a key secret of biomineralization
...shells of mollusks, and the needle-sharp spines of sea urchins and other marine creatures are made-from-s...son physicist Pupa Gilbert describes how the lowly sea urchin transforms calcium carbonate the same mate...oduced by synchrotron radiation to observe how the sea urchin builds its spicules, the sharp crystalline ...Forward step in forecasting global warming
...um. "We have used this approach to determine the complete optical properties of individual brown carbon nanoparticles sampled from above the Yellow sea during a large international climate change experiment," Crozier says. "This is the first time anyone has determined the complete optical properti...Met-Pro Corporation's Fybroc Business Unit Receives Equipment Order Totaling Approximately $500,000
... Turkey and the largest aquarium in Eastern Europe. It will feature several sea life exhibits as well as other key attractions and will utilize Fybroc's 15...iltration, all of which are critical to proper management of the aquarium's sea life support systems. Fybroc was selected for this project based on its ext...GE Energy to market SNS-developed detector electronics system
...in the product for commercial applications has ranged from other neutron science facilities to security applications, such as monitoring land, air and sea shipping. "The system is modular so that very large detector arrays can be built. You can have greater than 50 square meters of detector coverage,"...MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills
...ght in oil, and can be recycled many times for future use. The oil itself can also be recovered. Some 200,000 tons of oil have already been spilled at sea since the start of the decade. What we found is that we can make 'paper' from an interwoven mesh of nanowires that is able to selectively absorb hy...New technique measures ultrashort laser pulses at focus
...ions in focusing optics. To address those issues, the new device, called sea TADPOLE (Spatial Encoded Arrangement for Temporal Analysis by Dispersing a ...changed in space and time as it focused. Because the laser pulses enter sea TADPOLE through optical fibers, which only collect a very small portion of ...Biotech Avoids Fall Out From Tough Quarter for Capital Markets
...biotech's "blue chip" companies, finishing unchanged compared to the Dow, which closed down 7.5% and the Nasdaq, whose value dropped 14%. "Despite a sea of red numbers for our other indices, the Burrill Biotech Select Index recorded a credible gain of close to 4% in the month of March," said G. Steven ...When it Comes to Going Green, These N.C. Scientists are Singing the Blues
...orld Wildlife Fund, over 60 percent of the world's marine life is overfished or fished to capacity. The aquapreneurs at MARBIONC are cultivating black sea bass and southern flounder in on-shore tanks, creating a renewable food source that eliminates the destructive in-ocean farming practices that put har...Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness and strength when exposed to liquids
...gy -- copying nature's design found in the skin of sea cucumbers. "These creatures can reversibly and q... hardening its skin," explains Capadona, who has a sea cucumber in his aquarium. Marine biologists have s...imicked the architecture nature 'designed' for the sea cucumbers and created artificial materials that di...Virgin Atlantic Selects Rolls-Royce Engines to Power Its 787 Fleet in a Deal Worth $2.6BN
...arried around 6 million passengers About Rolls-Royce 1. Rolls-Royce, a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, has established a strong position in global markets -- civil aerospace, defense aerospace, marine and energy. 2. The Group h...January Market Jitters Fails to Derail Biotech
... patients on the placebo, which was standard of care alone, achieved undetectable levels of the virus. Pharmasset was the only bright spot amongst a sea of decliners in the Burrill Mid-Cap Biotech Index group as shares of these companies got dragged down with the economic woes. The Index closed the mon...HU scientist finds way to catch terrorists red-handed
...e, sees it being adopted as a standard arsenal of law enforcement agencies, security services, and the military and at certain check-points at air and sea ports. He said that as well as enabling better understanding of the chemistry of urea nitrate, this discovery may also play an important role in legal...