Superconductors to be worth $2.7 billion worldwide in 2013.
The global market for superconductors should be worth $2.7 billion in 2013, up from its current value of $1.4 billion. These findings, which suggest a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.9% for the period, are published in the latest technical market research report from BCC Research...

Gymnasts shine at state meet.
Byline: Kevin T. Baldwin During the first weekend in April, two local gymnasts came in second and third place at different levels of competition at the USA Gymnastics state meet. At the April 6 competition, Talyn Curry, a Level 10 gymnast from Westboro, placed first...

Conferences.
Russia and the Circumpolar World: Transforming Nations, Contested Frontiers Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Meeting 15-19 April 2008, Boston, Massachusetts Website: http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/index.htm Carbon and Water Cycles in the Changing Arctic: Past, Present, and Future Association of American Geographers...

Darkness Rising.
Byline: Karl R. de Mesa US metal band Shadows Fall wows local hard rock fans with one night only concert. Brian Fair is tall, strapping and bears an aura of easy violence. Standing at six-foot plus his four-foot-long dreadlocks makes him, to say the least,...

Darkness Rising.
Byline: Karl R. de Mesa US metal band Shadows Fall wows local hard rock fans with one night only concert. Brian Fair is tall, strapping and bears an aura of easy violence. Standing at six-foot plus his four-foot-long dreadlocks makes him, to say the least,...

The State of Clay in Lexington, Massachusetts.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] FROM THE FUNCTIONAL TO THE FANTASTIC, THE artwork on display in The State of Clay exhibition held during April, 2007, in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, illustrated the diversity of expressions possible in the world of ceramics today. Utilitarian objects, such as the practical Syrup Pitcher by...

Asteroid named after Filipino scientist Kintanar.
Byline: EDWIN L. AGUIRRE & IMELDA B. JOSON CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA -- An asteroid circling the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and measuring 4 to 9 kilometers in diameter has recently been named after a 77-year-old Filipino scientist and former director of the Philippine...

Dr Hamilton-Rice's wireless set: during his final expedition to the Amazon, the American became the first explorer to employ short-wave radio and aircraft in the field.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1875, Alexander Hamilton-Rice led seven expeditions into South America's vast rainforests and along its mighty rivers during the early 20th century. He surveyed and mapped more than 1.3 million square kilometres of unexplored territory, established hospitals and schools for the native people of...

Breakthrough atomic imaging for fuel cell nanoparticles.
Engineers in the USA have taken the first images of individual atoms near the surface of nanoparticles and believe that their work could lead to improvements in fuel cells for electric cars. Using a technique known as aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy, Shao-Horn's team at The Massachusetts...

USA Education, Inc./USA Funds Scholarship Program Awards $95,500 in Scholarships to Massachusetts Students.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Funds(R), the nation's largest student loan guarantor, and USA Education, Inc., the nation's leading provider of education funding, will jointly award 50 scholarships of $1,500 each to deserving college-bound students in Massachusetts. The USA Education, Inc./USA Funds Scholarship Program, formerly the...