Austin, Texas Crowned Best City for Start-Ups
From the ‘Cathedral of Junk’, a church that can only be described as Tim Burton meets a scrap yard, to having the world’s largest urban bat colony – Austin is far from short on quirks that help [...]
Thanksgiving Special: Research Reveals Human’s Saved the Pumpkin from Extinction
This thanksgiving, as you take a sip from your pumpkin spice latte or indulge in a bite of pumpkin pie, satiated feasters should take a second to give thanks to the idiosyncrasy of history that [...]
Texas Researchers Build Nanoscale Walking Machine from DNA
Whilst the idea of devices roaming our bodies may remind some of a character out of a science-fiction movie, new research into nanoscale machines is far from Terminator status. In fact, [...]
The Texas Barbecue: Dangerous or an Incentive for R&D?
The Texas Barbecue is perhaps one of the most well-known traditions in the Lone Star State – often automatically envisioned, along with images of longhorns or Tommy Lee Jones, at just the mere [...]
How R&D Can Help Texas’ Oil Job Cuts…
Oil, often said to be the commodity that underpins modern economies and lifestyles, is in a new downturn. Despite a history of booms and busts, the plunging price of a barrel of oil, which has [...]
Texas’ Resource-Rich Environment Supports the Clean Power Plan
Receiving a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking traditionally means that Santa Claus deems you as more naughty than nice. However, could this tradition be a concept of the past as the nation [...]
The Sky’s the Limit for Biopharma R&D
If you’re fascinated in the prospect of launching your R&D efforts beyond the bounds of Earth, then the Centre for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) may be the one giant leap you [...]
Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Even Energy
In the dark of night, the clang of pans and plates going into the dishwasher is accompanied by the vibrating growl of a vacuum cleaner in the Lone Star State. To clarify, residents in Texas are [...]
How Big Data Can Assist R&D in the Life Science Sector
Big data, most renowned for transforming customer-facing functions such as sales and marketing, is now extending to other businesses. In research and development (R&D), for example, big data [...]
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