Traditionally, innovations found their way from developed to emerging markets in the form of less-sophisticated products at lower prices. The numbers of examples that work the other way around are increasing. It is more and mor...
Obama´s goal: One Million e-cars on the US streets by 2015
In his State of the Union speech, Obama set a goal of putting one million "electric cars" on the road by 2015.
Ancestors’ Second Life influences our First Lives
People are encouraged to record advice, conversations, and memories – and thought processes and structures of feeling - to be used in the event of brain damage or death. In the latter case, these can be used as resources for ...
Emergence of Mediterranean Sea acidification studies
Increases of atmospheric CO2 and associated decreases in seawater pH and carbonate ion concentration this century and beyond are likely to have wide impacts on marine ecosystems including those of the Mediterranean Sea. Consequ...
Concerns over socio-economic and humanities research "downgr ...
The role of Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities as a stream (SSH) within the European Commission's Framework Programme is being changed. In particular, three issues have been highlighted by critical commentators and the Univ...
A suicide bomber of UK citizenship caused two explosions in Stockholm streets on Saturday the 11th of December 2010 . neer Christmas shoppers. The bomber was killed in the attack. The bomber named Abdulwahab used to study in ...
Optical lifting demonstrated for the first time
Scientists observed and experimentally verified a micrometer-scale object being lifted by a beam of laser light. Optical lifting may be useful for improving the design of solar sails for interstellar space travel. The scientist...
Privatisation of space flights
Growing efforts of commercial firms to commercialise space travel, including space tourism. For example, Boeing has teamed up recently with a private spaceflight marketing firm to sell passenger seats for future flights of its ...
Discovery of earth-like extra-solar planets
As of December 2, 2010, 505 extra-sols planets were detected. Most are giant planets (like Jupiter), but recently several relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth, have also been detected, thu...
Life-form thriving on arsenic was discovered on Earth
NASA-funded research discovered microorganisms on Earth (in Mono Lake, California), able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. According to NASA, this finding of an alternative biochemistry makeup will alter...
Growing frequency of floods in Europe and the world
The number of flooding events in Europe and the world has doubled since 2005 (when 50 severe events were reported). The figure increased in 2006 (67 floods), 2007 (73 floods), 2008 (77 floods) and 2009 (88 floods). However, 201...
Bees be no more, less food than before
Reducing numbers of bees and other pollinating insects reaches catastrophic levels with widespread crop failure due to lack of pollination of plants. Natural herbivores affected and go into decline but other insects also in det...
Social TV offers a new interactive viewing experience
People are combining their social networks with TV to comment on live events (such as Oscars, Olympics etc). Further research is ongoing into combining the active experience of social networks with the passive experience of TV ...
Eastern working practices influencing the Western world?
Working practices for manufacturers (such as ipods) in China are very poor and have led to a number of suicide attempts. If western practices are taken on board, then the demand for products may not be met and the Western world...
Growing efforts to assist SMEs to exploit R&D collaborative ...
Handbooks aimed directly at SMEs are available to assist SMEs to maximise the benefits of involvement of participating in collaborative R&D projects. SMEs could begin to take the lead in new innovative product and process devel...
