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Online Catalog of Chemical Structures

Focus Synthesis LLC and eMolecules, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a collaboration to establish an online catalog of chemical structures with eCommerce functionality. This will allow Focus Synthesis to ...

29 Aug 2006

Florida Atlantic University’s SeaTech Designs Rapidly-Deployable "Base at Sea" Platform

Florida Atlantic University's SeaTech - Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering in Dania Beach, which is part of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a $2 million grant by the Office ...

29 Aug 2006

University of South Carolina Engineers Find Cost-Effective and Efficient Way to Halt Flooding Caused by Breached Levees

A team of University of South Carolina civil engineers who have studied the failure of the 17th Street canal levee in New Orleans say they have found a cost-effective and efficient way to halt flooding caused by breached...

29 Aug 2006

Rensselaer to Improve Energy Efficiency of Green Light-Emitting Diodes

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received $1.8 million in federal funding to improve the energy efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). As part of the U.S. Department of Energy&#3...

29 Aug 2006

University of Wyoming Develops Technology for Rapid Detection of Explosives Such as the Liquid Compounds

University of Wyoming researchers have developed and patented a technology that can rapidly detect explosives such as the liquid compounds that were part of a recently-thwarted plot to detonate bombs on as many as 10 U.S...

29 Aug 2006

Successful test of Space Shuttle Heat Shield Repair Material

Six coupons of NASA shuttle heat shield material purposely gouged to simulate possible damage were tested during a spacewalk July 12, 2006. Astronauts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum using NOAX, or as they called it "...

29 Aug 2006

Boca Bearings Announce New Range of Full Ceramic and Ceramic Hybrid Bearings

Boca Bearings is proud to announce their new expanded range of Full Ceramic and Ceramic Hybrid ball bearings. Ceramic bearings are made of a highly manufactured ceramic, similar to the heat absorbing, super resilient til...

29 Aug 2006

SGL Carbon to Build Graphite Plant in Malaysia

SGL Carbon will initiate construction of a carbon and graphite hub in Malaysia at the end of 2006. The Company anticipates a total investment of €150 million to €200 million over several years. The first step w...

29 Aug 2006

VTT Recommends Special Steels for The Automotive Industry

VTT recommends special steels for automotive industry New austenitic stainless steels enhance driving safety, reduce servicing costs and facilitate recycling Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) has conducted a ...

29 Aug 2006

Swedish Flame Retardant Ban Contradicts Scientific Conclusions and EU Law

The flame retardant Deca-BDE has contributed to saving thousands of lives over the last decades. It is used in textiles and electronic equipment to ensure a high resistance of consumer products against fire. On 24 Au...

29 Aug 2006

SUAL and Nureneroservice Sign Agreement for Energy Supply to a New Aluminium Smelter

SUAL Group and Nurenergoservice LLP (a Kazakhstan subsidiary of AES Corporation) signed a Memorandum of Understanding relating to cooperation on the energy supply for a new aluminium smelter in the Republic of Kazakhstan...

29 Aug 2006

Life Cycle of Diamonds Indicates the Best Places to Search for Them

Could Australia rise to the top of the diamond pipe again? Macquarie University researcher Craig O’Neill believes his research could open new diamond fields across Australia. It turns out that diamonds are not ...

29 Aug 2006

Researchers Look at Turning Fuel Ethanol into Beverage Alcohol

Fuel ethanol could be cheaply and quickly converted into the purer, cleaner alcohol that goes into alcoholic drinks, cough medicines, mouth washes and other products requiring food-grade alcohol, say Iowa State Universit...

29 Aug 2006

Jaguar Supercomputer Power Exceeds 50 Teraflops

An upgrade to the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has increased the system’s computing power to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second, making the Cray among the m...

29 Aug 2006

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Used to Power Unmanned Aircraft

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed ...

28 Aug 2006