Applied Physics

How To See 'Invisible Light' From The Birth Of The Universe

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted since the "big bang," and may prov ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 9:21pm

Robots That Care

It looks almost scary with its one armed, three fingered, 1.45-meter-high, flexible physique. However the extent that it will rid its master’s house of any mess is anything but daunting. Research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Eng ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 11 2008 - 12:03pm

McCall Glacier Ice Core Extends Climate Record Back To The Little Ice Age

Fairbanks, Alaska—A 150-meter ice core pulled from the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this summer may offer researchers their first quantitative look at up to two centuries of climate change in the region. The core, which is longer ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2008 - 4:52pm

Peeking Into The Mysteries Of Superconductivity

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with no resistance. Electricity comes from electrons traveling through wire conductors. Those electrons bumping into each other generate an enormous amount of heat. With superconductors, however, there ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2008 - 10:23am

Can Microbial Ecology Solve The Energy Crisis?

Nothing knows how to survive changes on Earth like bacteria. Microorganisms once reigned supreme on the Earth and they thrived by filling every nook and cranny of the environment billions of years before humans first arrived on the scene. Their ability to ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2008 - 10:39am

Bulgarian Telecommunications Company Selects Alcatel-Lucent For Euro 32 Million Contract To Deploy GSM/EDGE Network Infrastructu

PARIS, July 15 /PRNewswire/-- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been awarded a Euro 32 million euro contract by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), the main telecommunication services operator in Bulgaria- t ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 6:32am

Petronas: Financial Overview 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 15 /PRNewswire/-- The financial year ended 31 March 2008 was yet another highly challenging year for the PETRONAS Group as it continues to strive to generate value amidst an increasingly volatile and uncertain global oil and g ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 7:31am

Hydrogen- Without The Nasty Carbon Footprint

Penn State researchers say they can produce greener, less expensive hydrogen for fuel using water, solar energy and nanotube diodes that use the entire spectrum of the sun's energy. Currently, the steam reforming of natural gas produces most of our hy ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2008 - 8:45am

Kuehneosaurs- Just As Cool As Archaeopteryx But 50 Million Years Older

Archaeopteryx is famous as the world's oldest bird, but reptiles were flying about some 50 million years earlier than that (225 million years ago), even before large dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A new study of extinct reptiles called kuehneosaurs, by ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2008 - 8:53am

Predicting Lightning Strikes- Closing In On The Source Of X-rays In Lightning

University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike. "From a practical point of vi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2008 - 5:04pm