Applied Physics

Forget The Scissors, Microsoft Research Makes It Easier To Create Digital Photo Collages

CAMBRIDGE, England, September 4 /PRNewswire/--- Seamless digital photo collaging at your fingertips with AutoCollage. Microsoft Research today launched AutoCollage 2008, a desktop application that allows users to easily compile a set of individual photogr ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 4 2008 - 3:30am

FARO Expands Sizes, Capabilities Of FaroArm Lineup

COVENTRY, England, September 4 /PRNewswire/-- FARO, the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, today announced that it has enhanced its Quantum, Platinum and Fusion FaroArm product lines in order to meet the needs of a ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 4 2008 - 10:33am

Students, Can You Make A Better Supersonic Airliner?

WASHINGTON-- A new NASA competition is challenging students in high school and college to research and describe a small, supersonic airliner that could enter commercial service in the next decade. During the upcoming academic year, individuals and teams of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2008 - 10:54pm

Will Mona Lisa Smile More When She's Clean? The Science Of Art Conservation

Tom Learner isn’t afraid of taking a scalpel to multi-million dollar Monets or Picassos. But he also knows his way around equipment that sounds pretty high tech: Scanning Electron Microscopes, Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays, and Mass Spectrometers. He ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Sep 9 2008 - 4:17pm

Get Back In The Car: Vegetarian IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri Says Less Meat Will Slow Global Warming More

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (The IPCC and Al Gore were joint winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize) is calling on individuals to cut their carbon footprints by transforming their diets at a lecture hosted ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2008 - 1:38pm

This Day In Science History: September 8th

Scientific happenings, big and small, on this day in history First, let’s get started with today’s quiz: What common household item, used in more than 90 percent of American homes, was developed on this day in 1930 by Richard G. Drew? As a little hint, des ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Sep 8 2008 - 12:57pm

Atlantis Resources Corporation Acquires Morgan Stanley's Tidal Current Energy Origination Business

LONDON, September 8 /PRNewswire/--- Acquisition Marks the Launch of a Uniquely Commercial Pioneer in Tidal Current Electricity Generation ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 8 2008 - 3:31am

Atmel Introduces 4-channel Power Management Unit With Real Time Clock For 32-bit MCUs

ROUSSET, France, September 8 /PRNewswire/--- AT73C224 Sources 3V to 5V Supplies, Provides Four Regulated Power Supply Channels, Integrates Real Time Clock and Two Wire Interface Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the release of its AT73C2 ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 8 2008 - 7:31am

Enzyme 'Mistake' May Yield Plant Oil For Biofuel Discovery

If your experiment doesn't go the way you expect, take a closer look; something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory to discover a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 5:26pm

Atmel Introduces A Graphical User Interface (GUI) For Its Advanced AVR-based 125-kHz RFID Evaluation Kit

HEILBRONN, Germany, September 9 /PRNewswire/-- Atmel(R) (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today a significant enhancement to the ATA2270-EK1 125-kHz RFID demo kit. This kit, which enables the evaluation and prototyping of Atmel's wide portfolio of LF IDIC(R)s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 9 2008 - 7:31am