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Kodak has been a pioneer in developing technology associated with OLED displays. In the 1970s, Kodak scientists developed the world’s first viable OLED material.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for many diseases, including one of world’s leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease*.

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy.

Nanoscience milestone opens up new possibilities in molecular electronics

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and find illicit hidden materials easily.

While bacterial cells tend to be rather solitary individuals, they are also known to form intricately structured communities called biofilms.

In the first study ever to genetically link the immune system to normal behavior, scientists at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities show that mast cells, known as the pharmacologic bombshells of the immune system, directly influence how mice respond to stressful situations.

Like a deep-sea bloodhound, Sentry -- the newest in an elite group of unmanned submersibles able to operate on their own in demanding and rugged environments -- has helped scientists pinpoint optimal locations for two observation sites of a pioneering seafloor laboratory being planned off Washington and Oregon.

NASA hosted a meeting of space agencies from nine countries last week to discuss the next steps in the ongoing scientific exploration of the moon.

A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity, and that similar events in that area occur only once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years, on average.

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists.

The Linguists is the true story of Harrison and Greg Anderson, scientists who - spurred by the knowledge that half of the world's languages are on the verge of extinction - go on a world pursuit to record as many of them as possible.

IBM (NYSE:IBM) today introduced a new supercomputer powered by one of the world's fastest microprocessors and cooled by an innovative water system.

DuPont, through its Pioneer Hi-Bred business, today announced that it is making publicly available genomic sequences of a major fungal pathogen of corn plants.

MIT biologists have provoked soil-dwelling bacteria into producing a new type of antibiotic by pitting them against another strain of bacteria in a battle for survival.

IBM will establish the first Cloud Computing Center for software companies in China, in Wuxi. The center will let emerging Chinese software companies tap into a virtual computing environment to support their development activities.

A scientist has uncovered one of the "missing links" in understanding visual signals that determine where and why we move our eyes to focus on details in our environment.

MIT scientists have found a new way that DNA can carry out its work that is about as surprising as discovering that a mold used to cast a metal tool can also serve as a tool itself, with two complementary shapes each showing distinct functional roles.

The Georgia Cancer Coalition has named its 2008 GCC Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists and seven of the 29 scientists named are from the Emory University School of Medicine.

Bolstering disintegrating neural connections may help boost brainpower in Alzheimer's disease patients, MIT researchers and colleagues will report in the Nov. 8 issue of Neuron.