Applied Physics

Greener Extraction Of Titanium Dioxide

From medicine to make-up, plastics to paper- hardly a day goes by when we don't use titanium dioxide. Now researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a simpler, cheaper and greener method of extracting higher yields of one of this most usefu ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2008 - 8:09pm

Solar Chimney Plus Wind Tower Is Fuel-Free Air Conditioning

A new approach to the cooling of buildings across the developing world that needs nothing but wind and sun to operate has been devised by engineers in India. Writing in the International Journal of Sustainable Design, the team explains the concept of a com ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2008 - 9:31pm

Ideaworks3D Announces Airplay(TM) Conformant With OpenKODE 1.0 On The Widest Range Of Platforms

LONDON, February 12 /PRNewswire/-- Ideaworks3D, a leading developer of native mobile technology and applications, today announced that its Airplay native execution environment has been certified as a conformant implementation of the OpenKODE(TM) 1.0 API s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 12 2008 - 10:30am

'Lab On A Chip' Speeds Studies Of Brain Cells

Johns Hopkins researchers from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine have devised a micro-scale tool- a lab on a chip- designed to mimic the chemical complexities of the brain. The system should help scientists better understand how ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2008 - 1:41pm

New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Could Impact Climate Change Models

A comprehensive new study documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based. The research is publi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2008 - 11:31am

Hellman & Friedman Signs A Definitive Agreement To Acquire Saipem's S.A. 30% Interest In Gaztransport & Technigaz S.A.S. ("GTT")

LONDON, February 14 /PRNewswire/-- Saipem S.A and investment partnerships affiliated with Hellman & Friedman LLC ("H&F"), executed a definitive agreement under which H&F will acquire Saipem's 30% ownership stake in Gaztransport ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 14 2008 - 6:30am

Laureate Pharma Appoints Gary Swan As Vice President Of Operations

PRINCETON, New Jersey, February 14 /PRNewswire/--- Augments Senior Management Team with more than 30 Years Experience in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Engineering, Technical Services and Validation Laureate Pharma, Inc., a full-service biopharmaceutica ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 14 2008 - 8:30am

The Bioengineering Challenge Of Making Cells Into Organs

For more than a decade, Peter Zandstra has been working at the University of Toronto to rev up the production of stem cells and their descendants. The raw materials are adult blood stem cells and embryonic stem cells. The end products are blood and heart c ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2008 - 1:53am

Using Quantum Mechanics To Hold Off The Computing Train Wreck Waiting At 25 NM

The strange world of quantum mechanics can provide a way to surpass limits in speed, efficiency and accuracy of computing, communications and measurement, according to research by MIT scientist Seth Lloyd. Quantum mechanics is the set of physical theories ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2008 - 1:32am

The Persistent Mystery Of Language Evolution

The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT. Berwick will describe his ideas about language in a session at the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2008 - 4:26am