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As our society has become more diverse, we've discovered a myriad reasons to question what once seemed like rock-solid research. Decades of medical findings, for example, turned out to be based on studies conducted almost exclusively on male subjects, raising legitimate concerns that many medicines and therapies might perform differently on women or children. These days,…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 8, 20160Comments

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Oxford adds $100 million for research into global problems

Big-money investments might be hard to come by these days, but Oxford University has beaten the odds by raising $100 million to support research into some of society's most pressing problems. The university's fund-raising goal was launched last year, when James Martin -- one of the world's top computer scientists and Oxford benefactor -- issued a…

ByThe Global ViewApril 28, 20100Comments

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Carbon Trust ups research grants to £500k

Greenbang has always liked a an offer – two for one, half price, supersize me… Now the Carbon Trust is doubling the size of grants available under its Applied Research scheme. Growing from £250k to £500k, the grants aim to boost low carbon businesses, entrepreneurs and academics seeking to develop carbon saving technologies. The government funded grants…

ByThe Global ViewOctober 15, 20080Comments

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£20m for energy-efficient material boffins

The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council aren’t names imbued with rockstar status - unless you like rockstars with a working knowledge of microprocessor innards and the periodic table - but with the money they’re bandying around today, they might as well be asking their underlings for a pound of…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 8, 20080Comments

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DoE spends $1.3bn on CCS research

Greenbang is wondering what's carbon capture's secret. Not the technological secret, more the secret of how it's sucking in money like a back hole sucks in the Starship Enterprise and/or Doctor Who. The last few times that Greenbang has written the words 'carbon' and 'capture' and 'storage' she seems to have been groping for the $…

ByThe Global ViewJune 26, 20080Comments

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EU backs €470m hydrogen, fuel cell grant

Sending its pun glands into overdrive, the European Union has sent out a press release with the thigh-slapping headline of 'Europe to be in a pole position for the fuel cells and hydrogen race'. And who said Belgian civil servants didn't have a sense of humour? The rib-tickling headline belies what is a very interesting announcement:…

ByThe Global ViewJune 3, 20080Comments

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Fungus ups recycling rates for biofuels

Greenbang is tearing down pictures of her loved ones from around her desk and replacing them with snaps of fungus. When you line up the achievements of friends and family next to those of mushrooms, there's no contest. None of Greenbang's relatives can secrete enzymes to clean dioxins from polluted soils and none of…

ByThe Global ViewJune 2, 20080Comments

Energy

Oklahoma plants ‘world’s biggest’ 1,000 acre switchgrass plot

It's not all just cowboys and cowboy musicals in Oklahoma, you know. If it were, there'd be more exclamation marks for a start. You know, like this: Oklahoma! But today, Greenbang would like to dedicate that exclamation mark to Oklahoma's biggest new export: switchgrass! In the name of biofuels, the Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC) has procured…

ByThe Global ViewMay 2, 20081Comment

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Microsoft dishes out funds for power-trimming boffins

Ah, Microsoft. You've got to love them. They've come up with such great computing innovations as Clippy. You know - that annoying paperclip that used to pop up and say stuff like 'it looks like you're writing a letter. Can I help?' But that's not Microsoft's only contribution to computing, oh no. It's putting its not…

ByThe Global ViewApril 30, 20080Comments

Energy

DoE gets smart with $50m grid handouts

How smart are smart grids? Could they do the super hard Sudoku in the Sunday papers? Do they have doctorates in astrophysics? Can they get into a packet of digestives without using their teeth? Greenbang doesn't know. She's never had one around for tea. But what she does know is that the US Department of Energy…

ByThe Global ViewApril 24, 20080Comments

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Is that study relevant? Ask questions, pay attention to your own experiences

Oxford adds $100 million for research into global problems

Carbon Trust ups research grants to £500k

£20m for energy-efficient material boffins

DoE spends $1.3bn on CCS research

EU backs €470m hydrogen, fuel cell grant

Fungus ups recycling rates for biofuels

Oklahoma plants ‘world’s biggest’ 1,000 acre switchgrass plot

Microsoft dishes out funds for power-trimming boffins

DoE gets smart with $50m grid handouts

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