Posts by Lisa McDonald
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Jeff Tollefson reports on Nobel laureates calling for a $150 billion special Clean Energy Technology Fund in climate change legislation,…
Read MoreNational labs top list of R&D 100 award recipients
R&D Magazine hosts the R&D 100 Awards, which are presented annually to researchers who have developed the year’s 100 most…
Read MoreHitachi helps Canada expand nano center
Someone must have declared this nano investments week (see other recent posts). The latest news is that Hitachi is lending…
Read MoreNano center produces jobs, growth for Albany
Seems to be good news, so other cities are starting to take notice. From the Utica Observer-Dispatch: To understand the…
Read MoreSpain, Portugal open new joint nano center
Spanish and Portuguese officials hope the $140 million, 160,000 square-foot center, opened on Friday, will pole-vault their nations into the…
Read MoreDOE’s University Turbine Systems Research Program announces project selection
The DOE announced the selection of three projects under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research Program. University…
Read MoreFlexible ceramic heat-shield material developed
Via Gizmag, news came out about the UK-based company Zircotec that developed what it claims to be the first-ever flexible…
Read MoreDon’t miss Feynman’s ‘Messenger’ lectures
I know this is not actually news given that word of this came out several days ago, but you have…
Read MoreBut then quantum computing losers a big funder . . .
Some times it’s one step forward and one step back. Apparently IARPA is now yanking its stake in NIST quantum…
Read MoreScientists create first electronic quantum processor
A team led by Yale University researchers has successfully implemented simple algorithms using a quantum processor based on microwave solid-state…
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