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UA Research: Building a Better Bomb Sniffer

What do identifying explosives in a piece of luggage, determining the origin of a bullet and unlocking the age of rocks have in common?They all employ a…

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Konrad Beyreuther Wins Inaugural Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize

The award honors Beyreuther for the discovery of the nature of the amyloid protein, the key component of plaques found in brains of individuals suffering from…

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FIZ CHEMIE and CINF Announce 2011 Scholarship Winners

Yesterday evening at the Fall 2011 ACS National Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA, Dr Felix Rudolphi, Barun Bhhatarai, PhD, and Karen L. Salazar, PhD were…

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Vote for Your Favorites in the INDEX: Award 2011

Want to have a say in who's going to win INDEX: Award 2011? And want to catch a glimpse of the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess at the grand Award Show…

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant awarded to UNESCO-IHE and partner

The grant will be used to excel postgraduate sanitation education and research with a focus on solutions for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and…

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Professor Matthias Kling Wins 2011 Röntgen Prize for Innovation

Professor Matthias Kling, leader of the “Attosecond Imaging” Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching (near Munich), has received…

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Hebrew University and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) launch $500.000 agreement for cooperation in research projects

The FAPESP is an independent public foundation with the mission of fostering research and scientific and technological development in the state of São Paulo,…

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IPv6 Contest: Innovative Ideas for Next-Gen Internet

The objectives of the contest are the generation of ideas and applications, which help determine how to propagate IPv6 deployment for the next generation…

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Helmholtz Funds New Spin-Offs to Boost Innovation

“Helmholtz Enterprise funding allows us to support new companies, particularly when it comes to personnel,” says Dr Rolf Zettl, Managing Director of the…

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The Balzan Prizes 2011: History, Enligthenment, Bioinformatics and Astrophysics

The four Balzan Prizewinners for 2011 will be officially announced in Milan on 5 September, 2011. The General Prize Committee of the Balzan Foundation “Prize”,…

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John Rogers Wins $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize for Innovation

Rogers will accept the $500,000 prize – one of the world’s largest single cash prizes for invention – and present his accomplishments to the public at a…

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University of Arkansas Professor Wins Award From National Science Foundation

Using his knowledge and passion for isotopes, Teng strives to solve some of the mysteries of the formation and evolution of the planet.One tool he uses is the…

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Illinois Chemist Wins Humboldt Research Award for Innovation

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, annually honors up to 100 researchers elected by a multinational, multidisciplinary panel of scholars….

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ESA Innovation Prize: Transforming Sat Nav Ideas into Success

ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO) aims to facilitate the use of space technology and space-based infrastructures — such as global navigation…

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Scripps Geochemist Wins Francis Shepard Medal

Kastner’s research has taken her around the world to study sub-seafloor deposits, how sediments form and the process called diagenesis in which sedimentary…

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Dr. Tobias Nebel Wins Otto Hahn Medal for Research Excellence

Since 1978 the Max Planck Society annually honours with this award up to 40 young scientists for their excellent research. It is supposed to encourage highly…

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