Thursday, May 23, 2013
 
 

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - In a scene right out of Star Trek, a Texas company is developing a 3-D food printer for astronauts to create custom meals on the fly.

With support from NASA, the firm, Systems and Materials Research Corp of Austin, intends to design, build and test a food printer that can work in space.

"This project is to demonstrate we can create and change the nutrition of the food and be able to print it in a low-gravity environment," the co   [READ MORE]
 
 
 
By Toby Davis

LONDON (Reuters) - Based on form, Serena Williams is a stand-out favorite to win a second French Open title but her record at Roland Garros means she approaches the tournament with a touch of apprehension and fearful of the lady in the mirror.

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By Richa Naidu

(Reuters) - A stable job market in Britain bodes well for an upturn in permanent recruitment that would mirror a recovery already under way in Asia, the founder of Robert Walters Plc <RWA.L> told Reuters.

Robert Walters, the 58-year-old chief exec...   [READ MORE]
By Kevin Yao

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's plan to spend $6.5 trillion on urbanization to bolster the economy is running into snags, sources close to the government said, as top leaders fear another spending binge could push up local debt levels and inflate a property bubble.

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India endorsed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Uzbekistan for upgrading the Jawaharlal Nehru Uzbekistan Centre for Information Technology at Tashkent to further strengthen the bilateral ties.   [READ MORE]
 
By Megha Rajagopalan

BEIJING (Reuters) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoveri...   [READ MORE]
 
By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfi...   [READ MORE]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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