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Tech News April 29, 2013 •

Tech News April 29, 2013

  • Cancer Drugs Should Cost Less, Say Doctors

    Doctors argue that some drug companies are charging too much for their cancer drugs, to the detriment of patients.

    A group of more than 100 cancer experts have called out drug companies for the high prices of cancer drugs. The doctors, all specialists in chronic myelogenous leukemia or CML,  published their opinion on what they call “astronomical” prices on Friday in the scientific journal Blood.






  • A Fuel Cell That Runs on Fire

    Berkeley Labs spin-off Points Source Power develops fuel-cell charger for Kenya powered by cookstove fires.

    In trying to create a power source for off-grid villagers in Kenya, entrepreneur and scientist Craig Jacobson has picked a seemingly improbable technology–a fuel cell.






  • Simple Trick Turns Commercial Polymer Into World's Toughest Fibre

    A materials scientist has created the world’s toughest fibre using a mechanism based on a slip knot

     






  • Social Media Censorship Offers Clues to China’s Plans

    What gets removed from China’s social networks shows how censorship strategies are advancing, and can even hint at the government’s plans.

    In February last year, political scandal rocked China when the fast-rising politician Bo Xilai suddenly demoted his top lieutenant, who then accused his boss of murder, triggering Bo’s political downfall.






  • Energy Department Backs New Way to Make Diesel from Corn

    A novel chemical pathway could address the high cost of transporting cellulosic materials to make diesel fuel.

    Within a year, a pilot plant in Indiana will start converting the stalks and leaves of corn plants into diesel and jet fuel. The plant will use a novel approach involving acid as well as processes borrowed from the oil and chemical industry, which its developers hope will make fuel at prices cheap enough to compete with petroleum.






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