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Private Firms Look to Cash In on NASA Cuts

(Feb. 1) – With NASA's Constellation program cut from the budget President Obama proposed Monday, private companies have the chance to play a bigger role in the next space race. While the budget request for fiscal year 2011 eliminates the Constellation program – which would have replaced the space shuttle with...

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #13: Addicted to Risk

On November 7, the Frade field oil platform, in Bacia de Campos, 350km north of Rio de Janeiro, began leaking crude oil.

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Archon Genomics X Prize offers up $10 million for sequencing 100 human genomes

Sure, we've come to love the X Prize for all of its crazy futuristic car building and moon racing contests, but the latest competition is decidedly smaller -- at least in one sense.

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Pharmaceutical Innovation: Offering Prizes for Drug Development

In these times of tight budgeting, the U.S. government, foundations and private companies are exploring a new idea: awarding prizes for the development of innovative drugs, vaccines and tests for the world's biggest health problems.

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transformation is leading the reinvention of the automobile and how advanced technologies are impacting the performance industry today and creating new business opportunities for SEMA members.

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Fly Weightless With James Cameron

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10/03/11 Media Alert: X PRIZE Foundation and Shell to Announce... Source: TMCnet (Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) PLAYA VISTA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/03/11 -- WHAT: The X PRIZE Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization solving the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, global incentivized competitions, will announce Shell as the exclusive presenting sponsor of the X PRIZE Exploration Prize Group.
05/23/11 The X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm Join Forces to... Source: Healthcare IT News The X PRIZE Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization solving the world's Grand Challenges of our time by creating and managing large-scale, global incentivized competitions, today announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Incorporated to design the Tricorder X PRIZE, a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians.
05/13/11 X-Prize reveals plans for tricorder competition, Source: GameDaily PLAYA VISTA, CA--(Marketwire - May 10, 2011) - The X PRIZE Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization solving the world's Grand Challenges of our time by creating and managing large-scale, global incentivized competitions, today announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Incorporated to design the Tricorder X PRIZE, a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians.
05/10/11 The X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm Join Forces to... Source: Marketwire PLAYA VISTA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/11 -- The X PRIZE Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization solving the world's Grand Challenges of our time by creating and managing large-scale, global incentivized competitions, today announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Incorporated to design the Tricorder X PRIZE, a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians.

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The X PRIZE Foundation is a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit mankind.

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