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Thousands of pieces of rubbish are to be tracked using sophisticated mobile tags to help reduce household waste.

Railinc Corp. said Tuesday that Norfolk Southern executive Tom Werner has been elected chairman of the Cary-based technology firm's board of directors.

. New biofuel requires no car or plane engine modification. Carbon Trust says production will take 'many years'Gene scientist Craig Venter has announced plans to develop next-generation biofuels from algae in a $600m (£370m) partnership with oil giant Exxon Mobil.His company, Synthetic Genomics Incorporated (SGI), will develop fuels that can be used by cars or aeroplanes without the need for any modification of their engines. Exxon Mobil will provide $600m over five years with half going to SGI.'Meeting the world's growing energy demands will require a multitude of technologies and energy sources,' said Emil Jacobs, vice president of research and development at ExxonMobil. 'We believe that biofuel produced by algae could be a meaningful part of the solution in the future if our efforts result in an economically viable, low-net carbon emission transportation fuel.'Transport accounts for one-quarter of the UK's carbon emissions and is the fastest growing sector. Finding carbon-neutral fu

AuthenTec Inc. has announced it has purchased the assets of Atrua Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of fingerprint sensors, for about $4.9 million in cash.

[NEWS] HALIFAX, NS, July 14 /PRNewswire/ - ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc. (IVT), a vaccine development company, has entered into an agreement to exclusively license seven cancer antigens from Immunotope Inc., an antigen discovery company. These proprietary antigens specifically target breast, ovarian and prostate cancers. IVT will combine the proprietary antigens with its DepoVax™ delivery platform to develop DPX-0907, a therapeutic cancer vaccine. Within the next six months the company will fast-track DPX-…

With dementia, Alzheimer’s disease brings amyloid plaques--proteins that accumulate in the brain. Many scientists believe the plaques are responsible for gradually destroying memory and brain functions. Most research--and most attempts at early diagnosis and treatment--depends on that supposition being correct. But new imaging technologies, which can show plaque buildups in the brains of living subjects, have produced a paradox: some people with plaque remain cognitively intact. A small minority of researchers think this finding suggests a different culprit behind Alzheimer’s: oxidative stress.About 10 to 40 percent of cognitively intact people have been shown to have the same amyloid plaques found in autopsies of Alzheimer’s patients but show no signs of the disease. That observation raises two possibilities: either the disorder grows so slowly that these people are just in an early phase of the disease and eventually will show symptoms, or the accepted theory is wro

With nanoparticulate functional materials and innovative printing pro-cesses, researchers from BASF SE, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and Darmstadt Technical University are r...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that its suite of Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation System solutions,...

Heason Technology has won a 250,000 order from Synchrotron Soleil, the French national synchrotron facility and research laboratory, to design and manufacture a 14-axis nano-scale manipulator ...

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ACLS) has announced today that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), a leading foundry based in China, has made its single wafer ...