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Officials say emergency crews have rescued a worker who was temporarily trapped beneath the tires of a Boeing 787 jetliner at an Everett, Wash., airfield.Paine Field Airport Director Dave Waggoner tells KOMO-TV that the Japan Airlines plane was being towed Friday evening when a member of a...
12 hours ago
Gov. Sam Brownback appointed a social worker and former legislator Friday as secretary of the state's largest social services agency and outlined a plan to reorganize it and two other departments as part of a larger effort to overhaul the state's Medicaid program.Brownback announced Friday that...
13 hours ago
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Friday backed prominent conservative James Dobson's claim that President Barack Obama's administration would block medical treatment for stroke patients over age 70. Professional medical groups have called such statements bogus.During a forum...
The image Steve Appleton cultivated as a stunt pilot and off-road rally driver became the perfect metaphor for his wild, 18-year ride as the leader of Micron Technology Inc., where stomach-churning swings from billion-dollar profit to billion-dollar loss required the constitution of a business...
The head of memory chip maker Micron, long known for taking risks in stunt piloting, died Friday when a small experimental plane he was piloting steeply banked, stalled and crashed near an Idaho runway.Steve Appleton, who survived a similar crash eight years ago and had a reputation as a...
Coal company Alpha Natural Resources says that production will be reduced at some of its operations in central Appalachia due to decreased demand.The Bristol, Va.-based company said Friday that 10 mining operations — four in eastern Kentucky and six in southern West Virginia — are affected by...
15 hours ago
Industrial chemistry is set to improve from novel rare-earth metal catalysts that reduce waste and improve aromatic bond-forming reactions
17 hours ago
Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package. It hinges on whether the former candidate for California governor can lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.Last year's pay consists almost entirely of 1.9...
To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor women who visit Planned Parenthood, it's usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see.The way Planned Parenthood does cancer screening is one of many surprises emerging from this...
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Jan 27
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8/15/2011
The editors of R&D Magazine have opened the nominations for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards competition, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the awards. If your organization introduced a new product this year, or is planning to, you can begin the entry process now.
Feb 3
Bioinformatic Approaches to Track HIV Epidemics. For transcripts of this and other NIH Clinical Center podcasts, visit http://www.cc.nih.gov/podcast/
Critical Care Medicine department hosts first joint education week for fellows. For transcripts of this and other NIH Clinical Center podcasts, visit http://www.cc.nih.gov/podcast/
12/1/2011
Nextreme Thermal Solutions has developed two new energy harvesting subsystems for the plumbing and HVAC industries. The subsystems are the latest additions to Nextreme's Thermobility energy harvesting platform that uses thin-film thermoelectric technology to convert available thermal energy into electric power for a variety of autonomous self-powered applications.
11/29/2011
Imina Technologies' miBots are gambling die-sized nanomanipulators which, unlike conventional systems, are virtually untethered and move independently. These miniature robots can travel around a microscope stage at 2 mm/sec and stop instantly, then manipulate and probe samples from biological cells to semiconductors.
Omega Engineering's DPGM409 covers the full spectrum in pressure measurement with gauge, sealed gauge, absolute, compound gauge, vacuum, and barometric pressure ranges.
Kin-Tek Laboratories Inc.'s Trace Source configurable diffusion tubes extend the range of compounds that can be used to include subliming solids and viscous liquids. These tubes have a removable reservoir that allows filling with the capillary removed, so the component compound can be any consistency.
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