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Next Steps for British Nuclear Group Sale and Plans for a National Nuclear Laboratory

The future of BNFL's nuclear clean-up and research arms were today outlined by the Government, as it approved plans to break up and sell off British Nuclear Group and announced its intention to establish a new Nation...

26 Oct 2006

New Plans to Attract Best of World Science to UK

A new 'Rhodes scholarship' type scheme to attract the best of world science to the UK will be confirmed by Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling in a major speech this week. The Royal Society Internat...

26 Oct 2006

Can Conventional Semiconductors Learn New Tricks?

Can conventional semiconductors learn new tricks? Igor Zutic is betting that they can. Zutic, a University at Buffalo theoretical physicist and the recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awar...

26 Oct 2006

Huntsman Restructures New Textile Business - $150 Million on Restructuring and Asian Expansion

Huntsman Corporation has announced that the Company has completed the strategy review for its global Textile Effects business, which Huntsman acquired from Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc. on June 30, 2006. Mr. Huntsman...

26 Oct 2006

O2Diesel Ethanol-Diesel Technology Corporation Joins Flagship Enterprise Center

The Flagship Energy Systems Center has enlisted a new major corporation, offering an ethanol-based green technology for significantly improving both the performance and emissions of heavy-duty diesel engines. O2Diesel ha...

26 Oct 2006

Biofuels Rank High in Importance to U.S. Voters in Upcoming Election

Four of every five (84%) U.S. adults say they are likely -- and four out of every 10 say they are very likely -- to support federal and state political candidates who favor providing incentives to promote increased produ...

26 Oct 2006

Technique for Measuring Properties of Flames Wins Award for Innovation

Professor Yong Yan and Dr Gang Lu from the Department of Electronics at the University of Kent have won a global award for innovation at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) annual Innovation in En...

26 Oct 2006

Norway Plans Field Laboratory for CO2 Storage

Norway could soon have one of the world’s first field laboratories for studies of CO2 storage in bedrock. Seven Norwegian research groups, led by the research organisation SINTEF, are to find out whether a land-...

26 Oct 2006

Alcan Reviewing Succession Options for Departing President of Primary Metal Group

Alcan has announced that it is reviewing succession options related to the departure of Cynthia Carroll, currently Senior Vice President of Alcan Inc. and President of the Company's Primary Metal business group. Effe...

26 Oct 2006

Jadoo Wins Award for Fuel Cell Technology

Jadoo Power Systems has announced that it has won the Comstock's Magazine "Vanguard Award." The Vanguard Award recognizes outstanding corporations that are working to enhance the region's quality of lif...

26 Oct 2006

Nanodiamonds May be Key to Environmentally Friendly Coating Replacement for Chrome Plating

Nanodiamonds, miniature diamonds with diameters around 5nm can be used in a range of applications but are poorly understood. Initial research into nanodiamonds include obvious applications like polishing, lubrication and...

26 Oct 2006

Simple Experiment Explains Odd Behavior of Supersolid Helium

A deceptively simple experiment, recently published in the journal Science, has moved physics one step closer to explaining the odd behavior of supersolid helium. The unusual state of matter - in which a portion of the a...

25 Oct 2006

Fermilab Scientists Discover Exotic Relatives of Protons and Neutrons

Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced (October 23, 2006) the discovery of two rare types of particles, exotic relatives of the much more com...

24 Oct 2006

Formula to Measure the Seismic Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Reinforced concrete is one of the most used materials in Spanish constructions. Foreseeing the behaviour of this kind of structures in case of earthquake becomed vital when they are placed in seismic areas such as Granad...

24 Oct 2006

Clean Fusion Energy: HiPER

The roadmap outlining opportunities for European science was published on Thursday 19 October. The result of two years intensive work involving over 1000 top-level scientists, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infr...

24 Oct 2006