Applied Physics

Can Macro-Scale Chemical Engineering Tame Volcanic Eruptions?

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

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

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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Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 9 2008 - 3:30am

Atmel Introduces 800/900 MHz IEEE 802.15.4 Compliant Transceiver For ZigBee

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

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

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

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

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/-- ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 9 2008 - 11:30pm

10 Year Window To Prepare For Water Shortages- Conference

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