Applied Physics
- Can Macro-Scale Chemical Engineering Tame Volcanic Eruptions?
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Could macro-scale chemical engineering be used to stop a volcanic lava flow in its tracks and save potentially thousands of lives and homes when the next eruption occurs? R.D. Schuiling of Geochem Research BV, based in The Netherlands, thinks so. During th ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2008 - 10:28am
- Arcadis Files For Deregistration With U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission
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ARNHEM, The Netherlands, June 6 /PRNewswire/-- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consulting, design and engineering company, today announced that it is in the process of terminating its duty to file reports with the United States Securities and ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 6 2008 - 1:30am
- Superconducting 'Universal Toolkit' Takes X-Rays To The Nano Scale
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Technology-development studies at Cornell University and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination of everything from human proteins to forged art. X-ray beams from an energy-recover ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2008 - 7:30am
- Appro First To Demonstrate 40Gb/s InfiniBand Supercomputing Clusters
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MILPITAS, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/-- ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 9 2008 - 3:30am
- Atmel Introduces 800/900 MHz IEEE 802.15.4 Compliant Transceiver For ZigBee
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SAN JOSE, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/--- The radio chip enables long range, low power, wireless connectivity for IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the AT86RF212 800/900 MHz IEEE 802.15.4(T ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 9 2008 - 8:32am
- Biometrics May Soon Identify You By The Way You Walk
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Biometrics is commonly associated with retinal scans, iris recognition and DNA databases but researchers in India are working on another form of biometrics that could allow law enforcement agencies and airport security to recognize suspects- their characte ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2008 - 3:12pm
- Nexenta Systems Announces First Month Results
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PALO ALTO, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/--- Accelerating global customer and community adoption Nexenta Systems, Inc., developer of NexentaStor(TM), the leading Open Storage management software that provides enterprise class NAS/SAN/iSCSI capabilities f ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 9 2008 - 4:33pm
- NIPs Protein Discovery Could Clear Rice In Arsenic Environments
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Arsenic is acutely toxic and a highly potent carcinogen, but is widespread in the earth's crust and easily taken up and accumulated in crops. Contaminated water is the main source of arsenic poisoning, followed by ingestion of arsenic-rich food, espec ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2008 - 10:49pm
- Purvin & Gertz Releases Global LNG Outlook
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LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/-- ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 9 2008 - 11:30pm
- 10 Year Window To Prepare For Water Shortages- Conference
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The world needs to develop a means of securing the supply of clean fresh water within the next 10 years if we are to tackle a looming water shortage, says a leading expert on water purification and director of the National Science Foundation’s Science and ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2008 - 11:52pm