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BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas
Five years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre a major overhaul of Nevada’s anti-money laundering laws has effectively transferred regulation of the gambling industry from state to federal hands. From July 1st this year, casinos in Nevada will have to abide by the federal statute, Title 31, instead of Regulation 6A, a state law, which has been in place for more than 20 years.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
RELATIVELY little is known about ethnic specificities in adolescent skin, although the research division of French luxury products group Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) is focusing a high percentage of its efforts on understanding modifications in the skin as young people change from being children to adolescence and adulthood.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has a range of significant implications for power generation, a series of leading UK and world experts have told a high-level conference at Britain’s Royal Society. From solar cells to battery storage and fuel cells, nanotechnology will change the way we produce energy, with some impacts already beginning to be rolled out and others expected to become mainstream and commercially viable within 10 years.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY may help textile manufacturers dramatically reduce their costs and overheads, according to a design expert speaking at a conference at the Royal Society in London. The precise measurements involved in using nanofibres and other nanotechnology means that manufacturers could both significantly reduce the bulk of raw materials they need but also produce bespoke products that are far more targeted than is presently the case.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing
CIGARETTE counterfeiters have borne the brunt of recent Chinese government efforts to curb the country’s rampant trade in fake goods. However, Beijing’s recent efforts to rationalise and modernise the country’s cigarette industry – by some measures, the world’s largest – have unwittingly aided the counterfeiters.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
PLASTIC electronics – despite facing some logistical challenges – are likely to have significant implications for sustainable energy production through the development of organic solar cells, according to a leading researcher.

Dr John de Mello, lecturer in nanotechnology at Imperial College London told a Royal Society conference in London on nanotechnology’s impact on the environment, that plastics offered a “step-change” in sustainable energy production.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has huge implications for the oil and gas industry, according to leading scientists who attended a conference on the impact of this cutting edge science on the environment at the Royal Society in London. They stressed the technology offers the prospect of carbon emission reduction, resource use minimisation, hazardous chemical substitution, the chance to dramatically reduce fraud, and pollution reversal techniques.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENERGY and the environment are probably the hottest policy topics for the European Union (EU) at the moment, with climate change and dependence on imported energy supplies foremost in the mind of EU leaders. As a result, any initiatives that tackle both problems at the same time are likely to receive a hearty welcome in Brussels.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A BREATH test may soon be used to detect lung cancer even in the early stages, according to a study performed at the Cleveland Clinic research hospital in the USA. Researchers led by Dr Peter Mazzone used a colour sensor to test the breath of 122 people with different types of respiratory disease, including 49 with lung cancer at various stages, and 21 healthy people.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FRENCH tobacco market is astir and it’s quite possible that such iconic brands as Gitanes and Gauloise, part of the Franco-Spanish Altardis group with some 30% of the French cigarette market, will no longer be independently owned by the year-end.…