As silicon-based photolithography reaches its feasible limits resulting in leaking electricity and rising manufacturing costs, manufacturers are searching for a new approach to make semiconductors. To make smaller circuits more quickly and less expensively, Intel and IBM are seeking to reduce the size of the smallest component from 32 nm to 7 nm using carbon […]

More often than not, scientists are unable to reproduce medical research results. The lack of reproducibility is likely due to more complicated experiments as laboratory methods evolve, the use of different equipment and materials by different studies, the high number of variables present in a study, authors not presenting all information to other researchers, and […]

The World Steel Association’s October 2011 short-range outlook predicts that worldwide apparent steel use, which it defines as steel deliveries from domestic producers and importers and not from inventories, will increase 6.5% to 1,398 million metric tons (mmt) in 2011, down from 15.1% growth last year. Global steel demand should grow 5.4% in 2012. China […]

For the first half of 2011, corporate venture funds comprised 12% of overall venture capital investment, up from 5.3% in 2010, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Corporate venture funds were responsible for 25% of early-stage biotech financing in the first half of this year, versus 15% for all of last year. […]

This month, the FDA launched a DNA-barcode library for 250 fish species, which can be accessed by outside labs and the public. The library is the result of a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution to standardize testing methods using DNA sequencing in order to combat seafood fraud. Popular seafood such as red snapper, wild salmon […]