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SFX Oscar Winner Petro Vlahos Dies

Petro Vlahos, a two-time Academy Award winner who pioneered special effects for Hollywood films, with a blue- and green-screen technique on movies such as Mary Poppins and Ben Hur made the modern blockbuster possible, has died at 96, three days before this year’s Oscars. His family said he died on Feb. 10, according to the [...]

Greek Tech Company Moves To Conn.

Lured by an investment from Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for growing Connecticut businesses through innovative financing and strategic assistance, Advent Technologies of Greece said it’s leaving its homeland to relocate to the New England state. CI said it had made a $1 million investment in the company through the Eli Whitney [...]

Tsiaras Visualizes Conception to Birth

The Head of Scientific Visualization of Yale University School of Medicine, Alexandros Tsiaras, assisted by new technology, has created an impressive video that shows fetal development from conception to birth. Watch in nine minutes what happens during pregnancy from the moment the egg is fertilized to the time the baby is ready to be born. [...]