The Met Office and the University of Exeter will host scientists, policy makers and business leaders for vital talks assessing growing risks from climate change – and action to address it. Even as scientific evidence demonstrates increasing threats to lives and livelihoods across the world, the global impetus for action is becoming more fragile. In the run up to COP30 in Brazil, the Exeter Climate Forum will give a strong voice to the scientists whose work drives our understanding of…
The end of January is Photonics West time! Over 1150 exhibitors have registered for the most important US American photonics exhibition in the Moscone Center,…
The range of high performance polymers available from DuPont for use in medical devices, including the new DuPont™ Delrin® SC699 acetal resin forms the focal…
Trust is one of the crucial foundations for the successful exchange and interplay of economic actors. Trust has a great influence on the intra-firm and…
Meet HighTech Europe at the 6th Anuga FoodTec, the international trade fair for food and drink technology, between 27 and 30 March 2012 in Cologne…
The programme for the conference will be drawn up by a knowledgeable advisory board; sessions will be chaired by first-class scientists and experts. For more…
For the first time, the well-established special show “Industrial Automation“ will include the new area „MicroTechnology – Smart Systems for Automation”….
A multidisciplinary approach will help to understand the interactions between genes, organisms and ecosystems, including their response to human activity and…
A better understanding of metabolic processes and the prediction of reactions in living cells would enable the step from empirical research to tailor-made…
The annual users' meeting of the Hamburg Synchrotron Laboratory (HASYLAB) at DESY is coming up. Approximately 60 companies will showcase their products…
eLBa 2012 will cover different aspects of learning and teaching with digital media in various settings such as classroom, university, workplace, home or mobile…
These findings were announced in today's release of the FutureMediaSM Outlook 2012, a multimedia report that offers Georgia Tech's annual viewpoint on the…
Yet a majority of 9-16 year olds say that they have not encountered anything on the Internet that has bothered or upset them in the past year.The Swedish part…
To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association is now supporting the Compact for…
Kouichi Katsurada is an associate professor at Toyohashi Tech’s Graduate School of Engineering with a mission to ‘humanize’ the computer interface. Katsurada’s…
“Together with Deutsche Messe we are going to continue the success story of microtechnology at HANNOVER MESSE“, says IVAM-CEO Heinz-Peter Hippler. “Hall 17 is…
For the first time, the positive effects of computer games on thoughts, emotions and behaviour will be the subject of closer scrutiny by social psychologists. A total of three studies will explore how, to which extent and for how long cooperative gaming behaviour influences the personality of gamers positively. The project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), will complete the current state of research on personality effects from computer games, which has previously been dominated by studies of negative consequences. The studies have the potential to offer significant ideas for analysing and reinforcing social skills in all age groups….