Applied Physics

Premier Farnell Announces Live EDGE Challenge Awards Ceremony And Technical Conference To Be Held On 31 January 2008

LONDON, January 28 /PRNewswire/--- The Winner of the $100,000 USD Live EDGE Prize Package Will be Announced Live by Premier Farnell's CEO Harriet Green- Winning Design in the Opinion of the Judges Will Have Creative and Intuitive Design Using Electro ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 28 2008 - 12:30pm

Nanotech Briefs Announces Call For Nominations For The Fourth Annual Nano 50(TM) Awards

NEW YORK, January 28 /PRNewswire/-- Nanotech Briefs has announced a Call for Nominations for its fourth annual Nano 50 awards competition, which launched on January 7. The Nano 50 recognizes the top 50 technologies, innovators, and products with the great ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 28 2008 - 1:31pm

Nova: First Unified Model For RS Ophiuchi

First results from a new NASA-funded scientific instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful explosions called novae and have produced the first unified model for a nearby nova ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2008 - 3:07pm

Bytemobile Appoints Chris Koopmans Vice President, Product Development

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, January 29 /PRNewswire/-- Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the appointment of Chris Koopmans as vice president, Product Development. Koopmans has been an eng ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 29 2008 - 6:30am

Polarion Software Launches Subversion And ALM Workshops In The U.K.

LONDON, January 29 /PRNewswire/-- Polarion Software, creators of fully integrated application lifecycle management solutions and services based on Subversion, will launch two workshop series in the United Kingdom: How to Ramp Up to Subversion Fast and App ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 29 2008 - 12:30pm

Quest For A Spider-Man Suit 2008: Improved Sticky Gecko Feet

Building upon several years of research into the gecko's uncanny ability to climb sheer walls, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley writing in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface have developed an adhesive that is the first to ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2008 - 7:45pm

E.Coli: Our New Hydrogen-Producing Energy Friend

For most people, the name “E. coli” is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a future source of energy, helping to power our cars, homes a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2008 - 11:41pm

Study Links North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature And Hurricane Activity

Scientists at University College London say they have established a link between changes in the temperature of the sea’s surface and increases in North Atlantic hurricane activity. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2008 - 3:18pm

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Launches In International Markets

REDMOND, Washington, January 30 /PRNewswire/--- First eight languages available for new release as global launch tour begins. Microsoft Corp today began the global launch of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 by announcing the availability of the first eight lang ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 30 2008 - 11:31am

Fountain Pen-Like Process 'Draws' 3-D Nanofibers- And Sugar Is The Ink

Based on the rapid evaporation of solvent from simple “inks,” University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated a process for fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures and shown the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2008 - 12:10pm