One completed a series of theoretical calculations to predict its properties with the help of a massive computing
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In 2012, protesters descended on an unlikely target: Rothamstead, the oldest agricultural research center in the world and a nonprofit that focuses on sustainable food production. The protesters weren't simply upset with some of the work going on there; they announced in advance that they planned to destroy it. The reason? It involved genetically modified crops.
Researchers at Rothamstead had introduced a gene from peppermint into wheat, allowing the crop to produce a chemical that aphids use as an alarm signal. In lab tests, aphids had avoided wheat carrying the additional gene, suggesting that the GM wheat could limit the need for pesticide applications. The lab findings, however, needed to be validated through field trials. And anti-GMO activists decided that these trials posed an unacceptable risk to the public and farmers and needed to be stopped.
With heightened security, the trials went forward, and the results have now been published. It turns out that the summer the trials were run was cold and rainy, and aphids as a whole didn't do well—there were so few even the control plants were "well below the recommended [pesticide] spray thresholds for summer aphids in the UK." The aphids that were present, however, didn't seem to mind the presence of the alarm pheromone on the transgenic wheat.
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A research team has realized one of the long-standing theoretical predictions in nonlinear optical metamaterials: creation of a
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Graphenea exhibited our product line at Nano Korea 2015 in Seoul last week. Nano Korea, described by its organizers as a “global marketplace aimed at creating new businesses and boosting cooperation in nanotechnology”, brought together over 370 companies from 16 countries and more than 5,000 participants.
Photo: Nano Korea 2015 opening ceremony.
Apart from traditional stands at the seriously vast exhibition space, the event featured one-on-one match making meetings. The seminar component of the event was split into four sessions, focused on bringing nanotechnology to the market and covering recent research progress, fostering business meetings and networking between investors and nanotech companies. Graphenea’s Business Development Director Iñigo Charola gave a talk with the title "Advances in Technology Development for the Production and Applications of Graphene Materials".
The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards “the Internet of things” — the idea that vehicles,
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