UN Patent Filings Dropped for First Time Since 1978 (The Memphis Daily News)

GENEVA (AP) - The number of international patent filings dropped last year for the first time since 1978 as companies hit by the global economic downt....

DAILY NEWS: Nano Centre now ready : Sri Lanka News Network

SLINTEC CEO, Ravi Fernando said that the Sri Lanka nano technology initiative was launched in 2007 with the setting up of a nanotechnology company NANCO with BOI status and NANCO will become a holding company in the proposed science ...

Nano Centre now ready (Daily News)

A fully-fledged Nano Centre worth Rs 700 million at the Sri Lanka Institute of Nano technology (SLINTEC) is now ready to give Sri Lanka a new competitive advantage as an emerging innovative industrial power by using research and development to infuse nanotechnology based solutions into local industries.

Trends & Innovations – Monday (Investor’s Business Daily via Yahoo! News)

The first computer study to simulate the impact of white roofs on cities suggests that they can help cool cities and cut air-conditioning use. The study found that painting roofs white could lead to a 33% reduction in what's called the urban heat island effect, meaning higher temperatures caused by tar roofs and other artificial surfaces. The approach may cool cities by an average of 0.7 degree ...

Business News Blog – Daily Business News – Peak Newsroom: Ten …

I wonder how clear it was then that, despite this storm in what turned out to be a rather small teacup, the following decade would see unprecedented advances in technology – the mapping of the human genome, social media, nanotechnology, ...