WARSAW, Poland – July 9, 2010 – Christian Hood and Eric Lo already knew that they had won the contest to see who had built the best application for the new Windows Phone 7, so they didn’t think it would be any big deal when they walked on stage to get their prize.
Emily Chen still vividly remembers the lecture on gecko feet. She was an eighth grader attending Berkeley Lab’s Nano*High program to hear materials scientist Arun Majumdar explain how what he was learning about gecko feet might translate into a new adhesive product based on carbon nanotubes.
A student team from Russia will take technology that is already monitoring the health of a national park to the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in July.
REDMOND, Wash. — Two months ago, fish started dying in the rivers and streams of Russia’s Zyratkyl National Park. Perplexed park officials wanted to know why, so they turned to a new water monitoring system called Polarvision. (more…)
Nobel Prize for Economics, 2007, goes to Leonid Hurwicz (USA), Eric S. Maskin (USA), Roger B. Myerson (USA) – “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory” Leading Countries USA (6), UK (2) Germany (2), France (1), Independent body (1)
Here are the names of this year’s Nobel Prize Winners and the reasons for their achievements as cited in the announcements Medicine – Mario R. Capecchi (USA), Sir Martin J. Evans (UK), Oliver Smithies (USA) –“for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells” Physics […]
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