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Advantest Files Annual Report Form 20-F with the SEC for the Year Ended March 31, 2011Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:06PMTOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE), has filed its annual report Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2011, with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Gary Greenberg's stunning close-up images reveal alien landscapes of everyday food and drinkTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:02AMScientist Gary Greenberg, from Maui, Hawaii, magnifies samples up to 300 times their original size using a custom built 3D microscope.

When Math(s) Turns Out To Be UsefulTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:17AMThe current issue of Nature has a great feature about how mathematical inventions and discoveries often find unexpected applications, sometimes decades after their first appearance. [More]

Medical marijuana clinic rewrites business planTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:32AM 

New Picosecond Pulsed Diode Lasers At 500 nm And 510 nm By PicoQuantTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:02AMPicoQuant GmbH announces the release of the long-awaited 500 nm and 510 nm picosecond pulsed diode laser heads. For the first time, green laser emission is not generated by wavelength conversion techniques, but directly generated by a semiconductor laser diode.

Pot center to focus on gardening suppliesMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:24PMThe Linn-Benton Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Patient Resource Center has rewritten its business plan to focus more on the sale of gardening supplies as well as public education, according to director Sheri Levit.

FEI Company Announces Dates for Earnings Release and Investor Conference ParticipationMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:03PMHILLSBORO, Ore. -- FEI Company announced that it will release its financial results for the second quarter of 2011 after the financial markets close on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. FEI's second quarter ended on July 3, 2011.

Using nature's machinesMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:08PMThe biological world is getting smaller. [More]

City State: Morning RoundupMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:18AMTHE D.C. COUNCIL'S TWO-MONTH RECESS is expected to be a quiet departure inside city hall from the recently ended legislative session in which allegations of wrongdoing by several members created a tense and difficult situation. But some of the biggest revelations could become before Mayor Vincent C. Gray and the ...