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June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the Solar System. September 26 – The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown.
The Act created the Technology Administration in the Commerce Department. [7] which lasted until 2007. This Act was the first of a number of laws defining and promoting technology transfer. The law was later amended by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 and the America COMPETES Acts.
Science-based: high-tech firms which rely on R&D from both in-house sources and university research, including industries such as pharmaceuticals and electronics. Firms in this sector develop new products or processes and have a high degree of appropriability from patents , secrecy, and tacit know-how .
The worm was launched from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and caused considerable damage. In 1989, its creator became the first person indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. December – Europe obtains its first permanent connection to the Internet, by satellite between Princeton University and Stockholm, Sweden. 1989
Face Value (book) Families and How to Survive Them; Fatal Vision; The Fateful Triangle; Flashbacks (book) For Love or Money, a Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia (1983) The Freedom Fighter's Manual; The Freudian Fallacy; Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo; The Fringe of the Unknown
The misconception that sharks do not get cancer was spread by the 1992 book Sharks Don't Get Cancer, which was used to sell extracts of shark cartilage as cancer prevention treatments. Reports of carcinomas in sharks exist, and current data does not support any conclusions about the incidence of tumors in sharks.
(Reuters) -Wall Street's main indexes were mixed on Monday, as investors looked ahead to earnings from AI-chip leader Nvidia following a rout the previous week on apprehensions about Donald Trump ...
A communications artifact (Rugby Aerial Tuning Inductor) at the Science Museum, London, UK . Science and technology studies (STS) or science, technology, and society is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts.