Applied Physics

Stretchable Silicon Intregrated Circuits Mean Flexible Passive And Active Components

Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, folding and other types of extreme mechanical ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2008 - 3:35pm

How Well Do You Understand The Different Types Of Lightning?

When most people think of lightning strikes they picture the kind that go from clouds to ground, but some lightning goes upward, forming blue jets and gigantic jets and, perhaps the most dangerous lightning, appears as "bolts from the blue" – lig ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2008 - 10:22am

Two Leading Independent Proxy Advisory Firms Recommend "Shareholders Support" First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. President And CEO An

CALGARY, Canada, March 28 /PRNewswire/-- First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. ("FCP", "the Company") today announced that ISS/RiskMetrics and Glass Lewis, two leading independent proxy advisory firms, have rejected dissident shareholder propo ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 28 2008 - 5:30pm

Studsvik In Consortium That Is Awarded Contract To Manage The UK Low Level Waste Repository

NYKÖPING, Sweden, March 31 /PRNewswire/-- The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has selected the UK Nuclear Waste Management Limited (UK NWM) as successful bidder for the management of the UK Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR). Studsvik has a 15 per cent s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 31 2008 - 6:32am

Fight Global Warming By Boosting Calcium Silicates In Soil- Theory

Plants, crops and trees naturally absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) during photosynthesis and then pump surplus carbon through their roots into the earth around them. In most soils, this carbon can escape back to the atmosphere or enters groundwater. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2008 - 2:32pm

ATB Supervisory Board Approves New Organisational Structure

VIENNA, Austria, April 1 /PRNewswire/--- Erwin Fritsch Appointed as CEO The supervisory Board of ATB Austria Antriebstechnik AG (ISIN AT0000617832) has approved the introduction of a new organisational structure and related changes on the Management Board ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 1 2008 - 11:30am

New Converged Mobile Device Maker Velocity Mobile Launches At CTIA Wireless 2008

LAS VEGAS, April 1 /PRNewswire/--- Company Combines Smartphone Design Expertise and Manufacturing Muscle, Showcasing New Devices with High-End Features and Mass Consumer Appeal Velocity Mobile, a collaboration between one of the world's largest noteb ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 1 2008 - 12:34pm

Just What You Wanted- Music 1000X Smaller Than MP3s And Just As Bad

Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file- a a 20-second clarinet solo encoded in less than a single kilobyte. The achievement, announced today at the Internation ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2008 - 4:12pm

Two Days Left For First Calgary Petroleums' Shareholders To Vote And Protect Their Investment- Vote Only The Blue Proxy

CALGARY, Canada, April 2 /PRNewswire/-- First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. ("the Company", "FCP", "First Calgary") reminds all shareholders to protect their investment and vote only the BLUE proxy in favour of First Calgary's ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 2 2008 - 1:30pm

Forget Money- Grow Gasoline On Trees

One thing that would make the cultural transition to cleaner fuels easier would be gasoline that works with current engine technology. Reporting in Chemistry & Sustainability, Energy & Materials, a group of researchers have made a breakthrough in t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2008 - 10:21am