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USEC Inc. has received the first $75 million of a planned $200 million investment in its Piketon, Ohio, uranium plant, the company said today.The Bethesda-based company, which supplies enriched uranium to nuclear plants, announced in May that Toshiba Corp. and The Babcock & Wilcox Co. would...
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Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of "star guts" being ejected into space following the explosion, according to a new study.
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Prompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several days in advance that oil from that spill would wash ashore in particular parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
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(Indiana University) Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities -- World of Warcraft gamers and Etsy artists -- as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked...
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(University of California - San Francisco) UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a development that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis.
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(Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research) Published this week in Science the findings demonstrate that the antimalarial candidate, spiroindolone NITD609, is effective against both strains of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium (P.) falciparum and P. vivax. Through a novel...
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Defense contractor BAE Systems said Thursday it received a $49.9 million contract to develop a processor for a military surveillance system.BAE said its electronic solutions sector will work on the advanced processor for the Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Infrared system,...
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Toronto, Ontario – September 1, 2010 — As executive chairman and co-founder of Martinrea International Inc., a leading Canadian auto parts supplier recognized for its leadership in advanced technical systems and program management, Rob Wildeboer knows firsthand just how...
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(University at Buffalo) Twenty-first century drug discovery tools, including those targeted to develop new treatments for cancer and hereditary eye diseses, will be featured at "Twenty-first Century Bioscience: In Silico Methods and High-Throughput Screening," a University at...
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Another oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, spreading a mile-long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico.
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