After all seeds cost money and so does the equipment to get them in the ground. Why grow'em
and rising commodities prices frequently illustrate. To help reverse this sobering trend and to generate enough food to meet the ever-growing demands of a growing global population today's
but provides enough return on investment to fund additional high-tech solutions. While the days of farmers using the divining rod to find water are passed long since many farmers especially in developing countries still rely too much on guesswork in making planting irrigation and harvesting decisions.
By combining supercomputing and Big data analytics with other technological innovations even farmers with modest means can bolster production and profits.
One of the things that we really wanted to be able to do was show that these slightly obscure animals actually perform a service that has an economic value
#German bank and EU offers funding to Chile mining power plant State owned German bank Kfw has said it is to advance a#100 million loan ($123 million),
to help provide funding for Chile first solar-thermal power plant which will supply electricity to the mining industry.
the funding represents around 10%of the total investment that is estimated to be required for the power plant project.
to be given to Kfw through its Latin american Investment programme. The project is hoped to ease strain on Chile energy sector
Chile lacks extensive fossil-fuels to support such ongoing energy consumption by industry that is necessary for its economy
with no expenditure on full-time security staff to operate a tool store required
#ABB#s MIDAS Library technology released Swiss power and automation technology group ABB has released a new technology that is designed to help engineers easily resolve electrical problems in mines right from their control room.
Jim Motavalli) The big drawback of the Twike is the price around $27000 for the base model
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U s. Department of defense responsible for developing new technologies for the military, provided funding for the $53. 5 million project.
"Today, it costs a lot in time and money to make a new robot, "Rus told reporters in a press briefing."
But trust me on this it worth the money for the flexibility it adds. It would be interesting to know how many i3s have been sold and
"and both crowdsourcing video for it and raising money through a Kickstarter campaign. She wants a modest $40, 000,
and these bikes can save money and increase efficiency. It a credible solution for young businesses.
which form bonds called base pairs. The syniii chromosome contains 272871 base pairs slightly fewer than the 316617 base pairs in chromosomes of native yeast or natural yeast on
which could enable humanity to transition off of a petroleum economy Boeke said. In addition to practical applications synthetic yeast could be used to study how different genes function
Returns aren the only convenience ereceipts offer though For tax purposes if every purchase I made at a brick
In the Economist Autodesk head of sustainability Emma Stewart writes about how the smart thing to do is to figure it out before you build.
and the huge infrastructure investments in them are made on a whim for political reasons for pork a highway here and a bridge to nowhere there.
Wikipedia) But there are other costs involved with anything we do the social and environmental costs the effect on people and the planet as well as the profit.
and money to do these studies and you can do hat ifanalyses of alternatives. Which is all a very long-winded background to an interesting product that was announced today.
As Stewart noted in her Economist articlethey are following up with modules for transit roads highways and buildings.
it would turn waste into a commodity with real value in the marketplace. It the ultimate example of that old expression:
President bush had placed tight restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research; President Obama has promised to reverse those.
The Geron cells come from one of a score of lines approved for federal funding under the Bush policy.
"Think of it like a compounded interest rate; the difference between a 1%return and 2%return compounded annually over 50 years will be huge."
The new money will go to vaccination programmes, better disease surveillance and research on new vaccines.
He adds that the big injection of new money should galvanize governments and non-governmental organizations to step up funding
and efforts"to end polio once and for all"."If polio is eradicated, it would follow smallpox, which in 1980 became the first disease to be officially wiped out from the planet.
the global polio programme has faced funding shortfalls, as government donations have tailed off. The large new commitments by non-governmental organizations therefore offers a much-needed cash injection to finish the job.
Even with the new money, however, the global initiative will still be some $340 million short of the budget it needs for 2009-10."
"We urge other countries to join us in closing the funding gap, "says Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development."
"You can't persuade shareholders that they should invest money indefinitely in the absence of any light at the end of the tunnel,
"We are planning to get an investment to build up mass-production facility of the large-scale graphene films,
Last month, Thorium power in Mclean, Virginia, with a market capitalization of about $40 million established a joint venture with Punj Lloyd, an engineering company in Gurgaon.
The two companies plan to set up an investment fund and to act as consultants to other companies looking to get in on the rush
Nature News A funding programme for health research will for the first time hand complete control to its African recipients along with the cash,
Funding will come from British and Canadian charities and government. The money will, among other things,
train researchers, refurbish labs and set up mechanisms to make sure research results are used in policymaking. In Kenya
the funding will be channelled through a new non-governmental organisation, the Consortium for National Health Research (CNHR. In Malawi, the National Research Council will be in charge of funding decisions.
The body received just US$286, 000 from the Malawian government in 2008, so the new money is a considerable addition to its coffers.
At first, both bodies will receive assistance to ensure sound financial management, but this support is expected not to last longer than three years.
The donors hope the funding will help the countries develop and implement high-quality research programmes that meet their own needs.
African scientists see the funding as a vote of confidence.""The agenda will not be set in London or Washington.
the grant-making capacity that will be built could inspire more health research funders to channel grants through the new funding agencies.
which will distribute the Kenyan funding. The unpredictability of donor funding also means that many Kenyan scientists are underfunded,
he adds. Leveraging more In the long term Ochieng and his colleagues hope to encourage the Kenyan government to put more money into health research it funds very little at the moment.
They also want to raise an endowment from international donors that could provide a more stable source of funding for medical research in Kenya.
The HRCS initiative is unlikely to stay unique for long. In a separate programme the Wellcome Trust has joined forces with the Indian government's Department of Biotechnology to fund postdoctoral researchers in the country through a new,
The funding rumoured to be in the region of#30 million (US$38 million) would be distributed by a body hosted in Africa,
finance and retail investment. He talks to Nature about his vision for the Asian Nobel prizes.
but winners of the Tang Prize#either individuals or institutions#will not only get the 40-million-Taiwanese-dollar prize money,
and as the country s economy has boomed, the fungus"has enjoyed unprecedented popularity, says one of the study s co-authors, Kamaljit Bawa, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Based on estimates of the volume of trade2 and average retail prices, Uttam Babu Shrestha, the study's lead author, puts the global market at betwen $5 billion and $11
The high price and rising demand are driving a fungus gold rush in poverty-stricken rural communities in Himalayan countries,
"It will have devastating consequences for the ecosystems and local economy e
#Coffee rust regains foothold Where there is coffee, there is coffee rust. But the long stalemate between growers and the fungus behind the devastating disease has broken#with the fungus taking the advantage.
On 22 january, Costa rica enacted emergency legislation to speed up the flow of government money towards fighting the fungus.
And in Africa, Noah Phiri, a plant pathologist working in Nairobi for the not-for-profit development organization CABI,
In Nairobi, Phiri is using money from the intergovernmental agency the Common Fund for Commodities,
#Japan s stimulus package showers science with cash Three years ago, the picture for research funding in Japan looked bleak.
The stimulus flags up the new leadership s determination that research should pull its weight in dragging Japan s economy out of recession.
There was a financial crisis in Asia right in the middle of the K-STAR project, but the government and fusion scientists were steady and serious about getting the job done,
and the investment on the research and development has been made based on the estimation of such risks. Moreover, Lee adds,
The rotating blades lose energy as they smash into these droplets, accounting for up to 30%of the inefficiency of the turbine,
#Court lifts cloud over embryonic stem cells The US Supreme court s decision last week to throw out a lawsuit that would have blocked federal funding of all research on human embryonic stem cells
US funding for each approach is matched now roughly at about US$120 million a year. C. T. Scott et al.
August 2001 US President George w bush restricts federal funding for work on human ES cells to a few extant lines.
March 2009 US President Barack Obama expands the number of human ES-cell lines eligible for funding.
but eligibility for funding is uncertain as case works through the courts. October 2010 Biotechnology company Geron doses first patient in world s first clinical trial to test an ES-cell product.
saying it is a poor investment. January 2013 Supreme court lets stand ruling that the NIH can fund human ES-cell research.
bring down the price of these nanomaterials and boost other applications that have stalled.""Displays are a potential market that could help quantum dot companies find traction,
As recently as 2010, the biomedical sector was responsible for US$48#million of $67#million in total quantum dot revenues, according to BCC Research of Wellesley, Massachusetts.
will make up $310#million of a total $666 million in quantum dot revenues. Melnick says that these numbers might be overly optimistic,
But demand from 3m and Sony could help to bring prices down. Although neither QD Vision nor Nanosys would comment on the volume of material they expect to make this year,
or their selling price, both say that they are scaling up their manufacturing volume. Bawendi is not surprised that it took quantum dots so long to find their footing."
says Howard Bond, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State university in University Park, who announced the finding on 10 january at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long beach, California1.
First, Bond and his team made a new and more accurate determination of the star s distance from the Solar system,
says Bond. His team calculates that the star is 13.9 billion years old, give or take 700 million years.
says Bond. The discovery places constraints on early star formation, says Volker Bromm, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin.
Lauran Qualkenbush, director of the research-integrity office at Northwestern University in Chicago, says that there is a gap between harsh penalties for misconduct#such as bans from receiving government funding
if the money might be spent better on measures that prevent misconduct. Although the ORI is not endorsing Repair specifically
#High court ensures continued US funding of human embryonic-stem-cell research The US Supreme court today ended an effort to shut down government support of human embryonic-stem-cell research,
by refusing to hear a case that challenged the legality of funding for the work by the National institutes of health (NIH).
"The ruling erases the nagging worry that existing funding could be cut off at any time.
and the House in pre-dawn votes on 1 and 2 january keeps researchers on tenterhooks for at least another two months by delaying mandatory spending cuts that could threaten science funding.
but could push the country s weak economy back into recession. The cuts, known as the sequester,
Rancorous last-minute negotiations yielded a tenuous agreement to raise taxes for the wealthy, but deferred decisions on the sequester#an across-the-board reduction of about 8%in nondefence discretionary spending, with at least 9%carved from defence#by two months."
"But it does give advocates more time to convince policy-makers that cutting the US investment in R&d is counterproductive.
in case there is a sudden plunge in government funding. Nancy Andrews, dean of the Duke university School of medicine in Durham, North carolina, says that the medical school may need to cut back on graduate admissions,
But it does give advocates more time to convince policy-makers that cutting US investment in R&d is counter#productive.
"If we need to spend more to help current faculty members maintain their research programmes through funding gaps,
it will be harder to provide start-up funding for new faculty members, she says. The delay means that law-makers will debate the sequester at the same time as they tackle the overall federal budget.
The US Congress s inability to agree on a 2013 budget last year led it to adopt a continuing resolution that allows the government to keep functioning at roughly 2012 funding levels.
Olah argues that a future economy could use methanol directly as a liquid fuel, so the world should work on ways to produce it#perhaps by capturing carbon dioxide.
when thousands petitioned the White house to require free access to journal articles arising from US taxpayer-funded research.
The UK funding agencies plan to finance this gold open-access route by diverting some 1%of the national research budget
and this is a side dividend to the main mission, is that the galactic planetary census is a lot different than we had believed from looking at our own planetary system,
For Second sight, FDA approval follows more than 20 years of development, two clinical trials and more than $200 million in funding#half from the National Eye Institute, the Department of energy and the National Science Foundation
and the rest from private investors. The Argus II has been approved for use in Europe since 2011 and implanted in 30 clinical-trial patients since 2007.
The scheme hopes to become self-sustaining by requiring milestone payments as drugs move from laboratory to clinic and from additional partnerships and screening services."
"To justify the subsequent investments you have to make in hit-to-drug lead programmes,
that challenged the legality of funding for the work by the National institutes of health (NIH. This means NIH-funded researchers can continue to work with the 195 new human embryonic stem cell lines the federal government has made available to them.
It cost the economy an estimated#8. 5 billion (US$12. 9 billion) in agricultural and tourism costs,
The team got around the problem by engineering the vaccine to have disulphide bonds cross-linking the protein triangles together.
breaks the most new ground is in its support for the reigning theory that describes the instant after the Big bang. The theory, known as inflation,
"Planck could have found that there was something majorly wrong with inflation, says astrophysicist Jo Dunkley at the University of Oxford, UK,
In the minutes that followed the burst of inflation, particles such as protons and electrons formed from the cauldron of proto-matter,
But unambiguous confirmation of a cosmic burst of expansion known as inflation remains elusive. ES a
But for those who argue that investments in basic research are necessary for innovation and prosperity,"this is a really bad budget,
"There is a consistent pattern of steering money away from basic research, says Turk.""More and more of it is being directed to company needs.
That money comes from interest accrued on the foundation s endowment that the government is now releasing for use
but that money is earmarked for research partnerships with industry rather than basic research. The National Research Council,
This investment was welcomed by Clare Demerse, federal policy director at the Pembina Institute, an energy policy think tank in Calgary.
Although the money is less than half the investment that Pembina and others had called for, Demerse said in a statement that it would be a"lifeline for the country s estimated 700 clean technology companies.
there is a piecemeal approach, with the government"picking winners and providing new money to the automotive, aerospace, forestry and aquaculture sectors."
the Universe expanded at a staggering rate#a process dubbed inflation. Inflation would explain why the Universe is so big,
and why we cannot detect any curvature in the fabric of space (other than the tiny indentations caused by massive objects such as black holes).
in a pattern that carried the echoes of inflation. Those photons are still out there today
The simplest models of inflation predict that fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background should look the same all over the sky.
This rules out some models of inflation, but does not undermine the idea itself, he adds.
there is also money to be made. The companies, many of them based in California s Silicon valley,
The venture could add#40#billion (US$60#billion) to the UK economy over the next 30#years,
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, various companies explored the possibility of harvesting them#but as metal prices fell,
however, climbing prices and advances in deep-sea equipment such as remotely operated vehicles and flexible risers#pipes used to lift material#have revived interest."
as a means of providing a long-term, reliable stream of money to researchers. The White house has argued that energy innovation is not only good for cutting carbon emissions to tame global warming,
but that it also plays an important part in growing the economy. Ahead of his March 15 announcement, White house officials offered a preview of the plan s details.
The money for the fund, which would probably be dispersed in the way that the ARPA-E program does it,
would come from an increase in expected revenue generated by a more efficient permit approval process and other reforms.
Could biometric payment methods replace credit cards altogether? Researchers from Tsinghua University and Tzekwan technology, a financial security protection firm, have announced the first ATM that works with facial recognition capabilities, reports the South China Morning Post.
and currently comes with a 30-day money back guarantee u
#Printing Color Images Without Ink A new technology creates colorful images by manipulating light rather than applying ink.
They are now working on a prototype for potential investors: a desk lamp that provides an Internet connection
At least that what entrepreneur Dr. Hank Wuh is counting on with Trutag Technologies, one of the companies that falls under the larger umbrella of Skai Ventures, the tech-focused venture capital accelerator that he founded.
Think about healthcare economics, think about public health it impacts all of those areas. We think of this technology as a tremendous way to sort of improve the system. he company ags,
rings and cufflinks, ranging in price from $54 for a cube to $271 for a piece of jewelry.
and whether it might hurt the Dutch economy. The court acknowledged that it is has no scientific expertise in climate changeut it didn need really to
For instance commodity traders might pay top dollar for detailed information on the level of oil in Saudi arabia's storage facilities.
It will no longer be heroic to go to space it will become a commodity and it's about time says John Logsdon a space policy expert at George washington University's Elliott School of International affairs in WASHINGTON DC.
The waves were said to be the smoking gun evidence for the theory of inflation which suggests that space expanded faster than the speed of light in the first moments after the universe's birth.
For now Europa is slightly ahead in terms of funding. NASA's budget for next year includes $15 million to design possible missions there
because acceleration and diversification would involve a lot of money. NASA's suspension of working with the Russians will likely be received in Russia much the same way other sanctions over its actions in Ukraine have been:
Meanwhile, Benjamin Longmier at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, who leads a rival project, announced that his team also has private funding
But you could dump a thousand Cubesats in one place then spread them out to the right points, for a fraction of the price.
No matter what happens, the team already has enough money to launch and propel the Cubesat next year."
The company has sold more than 600 tickets so far with prices currently set at $250000 but has yet to conduct a commercial launch.
We do however know that high speed impacts are a ubiquitous process as we see impact craters on every solid surface in the solar system says Mark Price at the University of Kent UK.
To find out if this works in practice Price and colleagues made model comet ice in the lab containing various amounts of ammonia carbon dioxide and methanol.
The goop that remained after the ice was evaporated away was analysed by Price's colleague Zita Martins at Imperial College London who found it contained the amino acids alanine and norvaline.
This is significant as we now have a simple realistic mechanism to generate amino acids Price says.
So as long as the money holds out and political stability reigns they might well get to some place like Mars
because they are persistent and willing to spend the money and make the effort t
investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture. The move is motivated by net neutrality concerns, says Kerri Cahoy, an aerospace engineer at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
#Hewlett Foundation funds new MIT initiative on cybersecurity policy MIT has received $15 million in funding from the William
Simultaneous funding to MIT Stanford university and the University of California at Berkeley is intended to jumpstart a new field of cyber policy research.
but also engage with stakeholders outside the Institute including government industry and civil society organizations. We want to understand their challenges
and here are the things that lead to outcomes such as turnover sales and job satisfaction says Ben Waber Phd 11 cofounder and president of Sociometric.
Sure enough when the bank instituted the changes Sociometric measured a 15 to 20 percent bump in productivity a 19 percent drop in stress levels and decreased turnover from 40 to 12 percent.
and other solutions produce a 20 percent rise on average in productivity and employee satisfaction and a similar decrease in turnover.
to advance the field by funding research proposals; to help individual research projects proceed more efficiently through shared services such as a regional sample facility or support for regulatory compliance;
with shipping constraints on tower diameters and the expense involved in construction. Now Keystone Tower Systems co-founded by Eric Smith 1, SM 7, Rosalind Takata 0, SM 6,
and other industries, for investors. As wind energy picked up steam about five years ago, venture capitalists soon funded Smith, Slocum,
and is raising investments to construct the first commercial scale machine. Although their first stops may be Germany
and base stations waste energy and lose money. But Eta Devices has developed a chip (for smartphones)
Backed by millions in funding Eta Devices co-founded by David Perreault an MIT professor of electrical engineering
That Deshpande Center grant was big in terms of the funding and connecting us with local venture capitalists and really helping with being in that business mindset Dawson says.
called Liris (for lidocaine-releasing intravesical system), for $69 million up front and what could total more than $600 million in milestone payments.
with $15 million in funding to enter phase-one clinical trials. Taris would go on to earn $30 million in subsequent funding rounds.
t was a big unmet need, Langer says of his decision to co-found Taris;
#MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment The MIT Media Lab today announced the creation of the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), funded by a five-year, $10 million
""With this investment, Twitter is seizing the opportunity to go deeper into research to understand the role Twitter
which would add greatly to the complexity and expense of a solar power system. This is the first device that is able to do all these things at the same time Chou says.
Now, with its most recent $25 million funding round Airware plans to launch the platform for general adoption later this year,
Since then, theye raised $40 million from investors and expanded their team from five to more than 50 employees. he last 18 months has been a rapid rise,
The researchers are launching a company to make this technology available at an affordable price.
We left with a fairly sizeable business plan to take to investors and get funding. The team felt unsure of the technology at first.
But a 2010 demonstration at a Dutch hospital of an early prototype a bulkier version of the Medeye with off-the-shelf parts constructed at MIT changed their perception.
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