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Researchers Enhance Lithography Light Sources
A breakthrough discovery may help aid the semiconductor industry's quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices.
Touch Can Trump Taste, Even When It Comes To Selecting Mineral Water
For some consumers, the way a cup of mineral water tastes has more to do with the container than the contents. Especially for consumers who are less likely to enjoy...
Lab holding fatal germs loses power
ATLANTA, July 13 (UPI) -- An Atlanta laboratory holding several potentially harmful germs, including a fatal strain of avian flu, lost power for at least an hour, officials...
Eaglet undergoes operation to repair beak
WAYNESBORO, Va., July 13 (UPI) -- An eaglet at the Wildlife Center of Virginia has undergone a successful operation to repair its misshapen beak, the center's president says.
Researcher finds fuel for atom laser
Atom lasers with practical applications are now a step closer, thanks to Australian researchers discovering how to refuel the laser with 'quantum foam'.
Ethanol Byproduct Could Be Useful As Fertilizer And For Weed Control
Scientists have shown that dried distiller's grains (DDGs) --- coproducts of corn ethanol production --- have potential as an organic fertilizer and for weed control. But some ethanol producers are...
Thin-film dyes boost solar cells
Concentrators increase solar cells' power output by an order of magnitude
Ashland To Buy Hercules For $3.3 Billion
Deal will create a specialty chemical firm focused on additives, paper technologies, and specialty resins
Transparent Semiconductors May Be Future of Flat Panel Display Industry
Some types of “amorphous oxide” transparent semiconductors originally developed in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University may form the basis for the next generation of flat panel displays,...
Japanese particle-physics leader dies
Yoji Totsuka, former head of the KEK high-energy physics lab, dies at 66
N.B. hospital loses power after copper wire thefts
Copper thefts at five NB Power substations caused service interruptions for about 10,000 customers this week, including at a hospital.
Leak closes French nuclear plant
French authorities order a nuclear plant in the country's south to close temporarily following a uranium leak.
Amy Wagers - focusing on stem cell biology
.Twenty minutes after her weekly lab meeting is scheduled to begin, Amy Wagers rushes into a conference room on the fourth floor of the Joslin Diabetes Center, where her lab...
'Fuel for thought' on transport sector challenges
The report: Fuel for thought - The future of transport fuels: challenges and opportunities addresses two serious issues - the need to dramatically reduce the transport sector's greenhouse...
Chemist 'Really Jazzed' About Creating New Molecules
Every time you spray an odor-remover like Febreze on a stinky carpet, you unleash good-smelling chemicals that are carried in neat little protective molecules called molecular containers.
Solar dyes give a guiding light
A new solar technology could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, a team of scientists show.
Verizon open network gets first, unsexy device
(AP) -- When Verizon Wireless announced in November that it would open up its network to any company that wanted to make a device for it, industry watchers had...
Swept Up In The Winds Of Change
With so much hype about - and so much invested in - wind power, Daniel Sieberg wanted to find out how it actually worked. So he went to America's other...
Obituary: David Caminer
Obituary: Computer pioneer who invented systems engineering and revolutionised J Lyons
New hearing aid technology passes the restaurant noise test
The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush — the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices — was the crucial test of...
Waves, Particles, and Medicine in Houston: 50th AAPM Meeting, July 27 to July 31
Later this month, thousands of scientists and health professionals from the field of medical physics will meet at the 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)...
Physicists Discover New Particle: the Bottom-most 'Bottomonium'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty years ago, particle physics delighted in discovering the "bottomonium" family—the set of particles that contain both a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark but are bound together...
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R&D 100 Award for new NIST/UMD neutron detector
A new ultrasensitive, high bandwidth neutron detector developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UMD) will receive one of this year's "R&D...
Heat Switch for Fuel Filler Flaps
Just in time - the car coasts into the gas station on its last drop of fuel. In order to fill the tank, the driver first has to release...
Researchers unveil near-complete protein catalog for mitochondria
Imagine trying to figure out how your car's power train works from just a few of its myriad components: It would be nearly impossible. Scientists have long faced a similar...
Catalyst In A Bottle Works Better
Trapping metal particles inside nanotubes alters physical and chemical properties
Software System Maps Entire Production Flow For Automobile Production
Control systems map the entire production flow and make it possible to see the whole factory at a glance. The new control system ProVis.Agent, which controls the Mercedes C-class production,...