Articles from the ‘Science’ category
Posted by GNA on October 9, 2009 at 10:22 am in Local News, Science
GNA – Corporate organisations must build bridges of healthy customer relations for them to compete favourably in the highly competitive world of business, Dr. Doris Dartey, a communication expert, said on Thursday. The customer, she said, was critical in a free market situation, adding “the customer is the heartbeat of the existence of the company [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 7, 2009 at 1:56 pm in Local News, Science
Ada Yonath from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, … By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writers Karl Ritter And Matt Moore, Associated Press Writers – 54 mins ago STOCKHOLM – Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:48 am in Local News, Science
(NORPREP) in collaboration with Clinton Computers Systems in Tamale, the northern regional capital, was expected at the end to train over 215 participants across board. According to the Monitoring and Evaluation (M and E) officer of NORPREP, Mr Samuel Afrani, his office sent down two letters to the twenty districts and followed it with several [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 5, 2009 at 9:56 am in Local News, Science
GNA – Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend said government was taking steps at revamping all science resource centres in selected Senior High Schools (SHS) throughout the country. He said government would refurbish equipment, supply the required chemicals, computer and accessories and provide the requisite funding for the running of the centres. [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:51 am in Local News, Science
GNA – A study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), indicates that climate change would hit developing countries the hardest, leading to massive decline in crop yields and production. The study conducted by the American research think-tank for sustainable solutions to ending hunger and poverty said 25 million more children would [...]
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Posted by Contributor on September 29, 2009 at 4:31 pm in Science
Ryan Norkus/DigitalSpace BYTES Researchers seeking signs of artificial life generated by high-performance computers want to use a network of small computers to analyze data. The project, the EvoGrid, relies on two open-source software projects, including Gromacs which simulates digital evolution. By JOHN MARKOFF Published: September 28, 2009 Having trouble discovering extraterrestrial life? Then you [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:49 pm in Science
By 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content, says chip giant Intel. It said its vision of TV everywhere will be more personal, social, ubiquitous and informative. "TV is out of the box and off the wall," Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:48 pm in Science
A New York judge has put Google’s vision of creating the world’s biggest digital library on hold. Judge Denny Chin postponed a fairness hearing set for next month that was meant to address a settlement between Google and authors and publishers. The $125m agreement, worked out last year, has effectively been sent back to [...]
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