Kobe Steel, Ltd. and voestalpine Automotive, Inc. will receive the 2006 SAE/AISI Sydney H. Melbourne Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Automotive Steel Sheet for a technical paper submitted to the SAE. The autho...
Frans Schaeken, a cathode assembler in PANalytical's X-ray tube factory in Eindhoven (NL), has been awarded the prestigious 2006 Ir. Noordhof prize in recognition of his exceptional craftsmanship in engineering.
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ConocoPhillips will establish an eight-year, $22.5 million research program at Iowa State University dedicated to developing technologies that produce biorenewable fuels. The grant is part of ConocoPhillips’ plan t...
Scientists from the Universities of Liverpool and Glasgow have completed work on the inner heart of an experiment which seeks to find out what has happened to all the antimatter created at the start of the Universe. Matt...
Previously, only amorphous polymer materials approached such levels of performance. On the other hand, these 'gigantic respiration' and their respiration, which takes place at constant overall shape, is reversibl...
Kobe Steel is seeking applications that can make use of the new alloy's light weight, high strength and excellent processing features. Kobe Steel is currently making sample bars of 10 mm in diameter and 100 mm in len...
Virginia Tech polymer scientists have developed a new family of gene vectors - novel polymers that can ferry genetic material across the cell membrane so that it can be incorporated into the machinery of the cell.
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Imagine a single pair of glasses with lenses that can be transparent or dark, and in shades of yellow, green or purple, all on command. A new lens with chameleon powers promises to dramatically improve sunglasses' fu...
It is possible to manipulate small quantities of liquid using only the force of light, report University of Chicago and French scientists in the March 30 issue of Physical Review Letters.
"In previous work, peopl...
Large volumes of plastic waste generated aboard military, merchant and cruise ships must be stored onboard, often for prolonged periods, until they make port. In the future, a new type of environmentally friendly plastic...