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Six scientists from the University of Oxford have joined the Royal Society as Fellows. All were selected for their outstanding contributions in various scientific fields and are as follows: For his extraordinarily effective work in explaining profound concepts in particle physics and science in general at all levels of society including in Parliament and to the general public, Professor Frank Close of the Department of Physics is elected to the Royal Society as a Fellow. His work focuses on the...

Share London: Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has today (Wednesday 5 May 2021) announced the appointment of Indro Mukerjee as the new Chief Executive of Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. Indro Mukerjee is a highly experienced technology executive and business leader with a track record of leading innovation and technology commercialisation at businesses of all sizes across the world – from publicly listed and multinational corporations to new venture and private equity backed techn...

Indro Mukerjee appointed as new CEO of Innovate UK, the government's innovation agency he will be tasked with developing the UK's innovation capability,...

Jurong Island: Singapore’s Petrochemical Hub Share Singapore has grown to become one of Asia’s, and one of the world’s leading and most cost effective locations for producing petrochemicals. At the heart of this success is Jurong Island, which started out as a collection of small islands and is now home to three major oil companies. Muriel Axford reports. Sign up here for GlobalDatas free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know. In an ambitious land...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Schematic of the skin and bone bioprinting process. After scanning, the bone and then skin layers are bioprinted creating a layered repair with bone, a barrier layer, and dermis and... view more  Credit: Ozbolat laboratory, Penn State Fixing traumatic injuries to the skin and bones of the face and skull is difficult because of the many layers of different types of tissues involved, but now, researchers have repaired such defects in a rat model using bioprinting during s...

Share this article Share this article The collaboration is a 3-year joint effort by Prenetics R&D Team, Oxford University and Oxford Suzhou for Advanced Research (OSCAR) for Molecular Diagnostics A new Prenetics Innovation Technology Centre is established for advanced molecular diagnostics Collaboration follows successful acquisition and commercialization of Oxsed, an Oxford University Spin-out, to scale rapid Covid-19 test globally HONG KONG, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Prenetics Limited, a...

Share this article Share this article DUBAI, UAE  and TORONTO, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 15, 2021, Ethereum GeneSys successfully executed a mining fork of Ethereum.  This fork, which took place in Toronto, is an effort to save the global Ethereum mining community from the Blockchain networks proposed Quick Merge. The Ethereum GeneSys Foundation has successfully initiated a hard fork, which aims to reclaim staked Ethereum 2.0 coins and allocate it to incentivize the Ethereum mi...

Virginia Tech marks 2021 Day of Remembrance virtually, launches online condolence gallery and last updated 2021-04-16 08:42:19-04 BLACKSBURG, Va. - On Friday, people across the country and commonwealth will take time to pause and remember the 32 victims of the Virginia Tech mass shooting. Its been 14 years since that fateful day when a gunman opened fire in Norris Hall, but the commitment to commemorate is stronger than ever. "April 16, 2007 is forever a part of Virginia Tech," said Mark Owczar...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The wearable transmitter is designed to compress its top layer in a double arch pattern, shown here, to respond to movement without compromising signal transmission. view more  Credit: Huanyu Cheng, Penn State Current research on flexible electronics is paving the way for wireless sensors that can be worn on the body and collect a variety of medical data. But where do the data go? Without a similar flexible transmitting device, these sensors would require wired connecti...

From staff reports WHEELING — Installation of new high efficiency LED lights inside Wheeling University’s McDonough Center is cutting energy costs while increasing the lumens inside the athletic complex. For the last five years, Engineering Science students under the direction of Bob Yahn, assistant professor of engineering, have replaced more than 100 florescent lights with LED fixtures inside the University’s facility. “By installing the LED fixtures, several areas inside McDonough ...