The fungus uses a common carbohydrate processing enzyme called acetyl co-A to form the building blocks of hydrocarbons--but its unique chemical pathways are not yet understood nor is the process by which the gases escape the fungal membrane into the air.
It's not like it's ready for the mass market as-is, but it's clear that a manufacturer wouldn't have much trouble building a sexy Atom-based form factor to back this display.
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Once they can manipulate atoms--which combine to form molecules, the building blocks of our natural world--scientists can create new building blocks that produce new materials with the exact properties they desire: smaller, stronger, tougher, lighter and more resilient than what has come before.
Via Licensing, a recent spin-out of Dolby Laboratories (DLB) is building a group patent holders to form a LTE-based patent and licensing consortium.
With the exception of its sixth form building, the 1, 250-capacity secondary school, which was originally built for 500 students in the 1950s, needs a complete rebuild, according to deputy head teacher Steve Ostler.
Stony corals are microscopic animals with an outer skeleton of calcium carbonate that form colonies and are responsible for reef-building.
It is thought that they form the north-eastern corner of the building, which followed a design described in Henry V as "this wooden O".
The winning proposal will form the basis for a mixed-income rental building in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan consisting of micro-units.
But what if you could tag a real-life building with a photo of yourself or some other content, as a form of virtual graffiti?
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The Travelstar Z7K500 is geared to notebook computer manufacturers, particularly those building ultrabooks where the 7-mm HDD height is needed to fit into the slim form factor of these computers.
Coordinate and provide substantive support to Member States and other key stakeholders in the form of policy advice and guidance, strategy development, capacity-building and programme design in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Education, through the medium of formal, non-formal and informal education and public awareness-raising.
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Thanks to Form PF, the burden of building the technology infrastructure to calculate and format aggregated fund-level security, market and sector exposures, and other non-financial risks, has been addressed by fund administrators.
In his most famous structure, the 1958 Seagram building (for which the ever-industrious Philip Johnson did the interior spaces), Mies' lyricism is given epic form.
Mr. Marmer found that "70% of start-ups exhibited some form of premature scaling, " which he defines as companies hiring too quickly or building a product without taking proper signals from the market that they aren't getting traction.
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