Applied Physics

Tunguska Revisited: A Smaller Asteroid Did It?

On June 30, 1908 a stunning explosion rocked the forest near the Tunguska river in Siberia. Estimates were that an asteroid exploded in the air a few kilometers above the earth's surface with a force 1,000 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A ne ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2007 - 12:50pm

The Tectonic Impact On Evolution

Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2007 - 1:41am

Plasmonics Advance Yields 2-D 'Invisibility' Cloak

A research team at Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering comprised of Professor Christopher Davis, Research Scientist Igor Smolyaninov, and graduate student Yu-Ju Hung, has used plasmon technology to create the world's first invisibilit ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2007 - 2:07am

ATB Laurence Scott Stabilised, Well On Track For Higher Sales And Market Share

NORWICH, England, December 19 /PRNewswire/--- Less Than Half a Year Under New Ownership, Turnover for 2007 Expected to Increase by 34% on an Annual Basis- Well Positioned for 2008 Thanks to Boosted Incoming Orders- ATB CEO Christian Schmidt: "Turnaro ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 19 2007 - 3:30am

NUKEM Hands Over Engineered Near Surface Disposal Facility In Chernobyl To The Customer

ALZENAU, Germany and CHERNOBYL, Ukraine, December 19 /PRNewswire/-- NUKEM Technologies GmbH, Alzenau has handed over the Engineered Near Surface Disposal Facility at Chernobyl to the customer SSE Technocenter on 19 December 2007. By doing so, NUKEM as the ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 19 2007 - 10:30am

Research: Supercritical Method Of Converting Chicken Fat Into Biodiesel

Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have investigated supercritical methanol as a method of converting chicken fat into biodiesel fuel. The new study also successfully converted tall oil fatty acid, a major by-product of the wood ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2007 - 11:39am

MIT Researchers Correct Autism, Fragile X Symptoms In Mice

Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have corrected key symptoms of mental retardation and autism in mice. The report in Neuron also indicates that a certain class of drugs could have the same effect. These drugs are not yet ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2007 - 4:28pm

RFMD To Acquire Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, December 20 /PRNewswire/-- ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 20 2007 - 10:30am

Low-Tech Innovation In The ICU

The other shoe drops. A year ago Atul Gawande wrote in The New Yorker about the Apgar score, a low-tech measurement of newborn viability that led to vast improvements in obstetrics. That’s the “how to improve?” side of things. Now Gawande has written abou ...

Article - Seth Roberts - Dec 21 2007 - 1:07am

Bizanga Appoints Technology Veteran, Peter Zadrozny, As Vice President Of Product Management

SAN MATEO, California, December 21 /PRNewswire/-- Bizanga, the global company behind the most scalable and full-featured e-mail and message processing platform, today announced the appointment of Peter Zadrozny as Vice President of Product Management. A 2 ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 21 2007 - 6:30am