Cuba launches world’s first vaccine against lung cancer

Cuban medical authorities have launched the sales of the world’s first therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, local officials said on Tuesday. The CimaVax-EGF vaccine, as a result of a 25-year research into diseases related to tobacco smoking, has been developed by researchers and scientists at the Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) in Havana. Clinical Development …

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Nanomaterials: Copying geckos’ toes

AStar – Simple templating technology allows researchers to stamp out materials that mimic the adhesive properties of gecko toes. Isabel Rodríguez at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and co-workers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have now made one of the closest mimics to gecko toes yet, and shown that it has …

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Prieto Battery also cames price breakthrough and extraordinary power density claims

Prieto battery has been claiming 3D battery construction utilizing Cu2Sb (Copper Antimonide) nanowires. Prieto Battery was the first startup spun out of Colorado State University’s “Clean Energy Supercluster,” a program aimed at speeding research to the marketplace. Amy Prieto, 36-year-old assistant chemistry professor, has developed a nanotechnology approach to making a battery that may be …

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China targets 100 petaflop supercomputer by 2015 and an exaflop by 2020

China is preparing to work on a supercomputer with a capacity of 100 petaflops by 2015 and try to produce the first exascale computer in 2020,” said Hu Qingfeng, deputy chief designer of Tianhe-1A, one of the world’s top 10 fastest supercomputers. “We have kicked off the research of some core technologies and manpower cultivation …

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Increasing fuel efficiency with a smartphone

Where previous experimental traffic-light advisory systems used GPS data or data from traffic sensors, SignalGuru uses visual data from cellphone cameras. Graphic: Christine Daniloff A network of dashboard-mounted phones can collect data on traffic lights and tell drivers how to avoid inefficient stopping and starting. Researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award …

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Micro-explosion reveals new super-dense aluminium

The method to create high-density phase by the ultrashort laser pulse triggered and spatially confined microexplosion. A tightly focused femtosecond pulse generates hot plasma in sapphire, which in turn produces a strong shock wave, which compresses the material against the surrounding pristine Al2O3 crystal into a densified amorphous phase Researchers including scientists from The Australian …

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New Antennas in your Clothes with four times the range of conventional antennas

John Volakis, Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory, holds a prototype communications antenna embroidered into cloth. Photo by Al Zanyk, courtesy of Ohio State University. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorporate radio antennas directly into clothing, using plastic film and metallic thread. They report a new antenna …

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Economic Roundup for emerging countries, China and the USA

1. The combined output of the developing economies accounted for 38% of world GDP (at market exchange rates) in 2010, twice its share in 1990 (see upper chart). On reasonable assumptions, it could exceed the developed world’s within seven years. If GDP is instead measured at purchasing-power parity, which takes account of the fact that …

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Nsolv has a solvent based approach to the oilsands that uses no water and 85% less energy

N-Solv Corporation holds patents for proprietary technology for in situ solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands. The process uses no water and 85% less energy than Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD). They have been awarded with $10.5 million by the Canadian government. UPDATE – Technology Review has coverage With conventional techniques, oil prices have …

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Light propagation controlled in photonic chips — major breakthrough in telecommunications field

Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have built optical nanostructures that enable them to engineer the index of refraction and fully control light dispersion. They have shown that it is possible for light (electromagnetic waves) to propagate from point A to point B without accumulating any phase, spreading through the artificial medium as if the medium …

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