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UK Scientist Wins Highest International Prize for Tribology Research

A prestigious award will return to the UK for the first time in 19 years this week, when Professor Hugh Spikes is presented with the Tribology Trust’s Gold Medal at Buckingham Palace on 24 February 2005. The med...

23 Feb 2005

Palladon Ventures Plans Steel Mill for Utah

Palladon Ventures Ltd. has never developed a major mining project, but that is not stopping the "junior mining" company from talking up its plans for southern Utah. Having secured a contract giving it the r...

14 Feb 2005

High Purity BASF Chemicals Help Microchip Manufacturers

Modern computers have little room to spare, with as many as a billion transistors per square centimeter jostling for position on their processors and memory chips. Imagine the entire population of India holidaying in W...

11 Feb 2005

SUAL to Build New Non-Stick Aluminium Kitchenware Plant

SUAL Group is to construct a new ScovO plant for the production of aluminium non-stick kitchenware in Stupino (Moscow region). The production is expected to be launched at the beginning of the next year. The project is...

9 Feb 2005

Assemblies of Blue-Green Indium & Red Europium Complexes Undergo Energy Transfer & Emit White Light

Complexes of the rare earth element (lanthanide) europium have the ability to emit red light over a longer time span after excitation by, for example, light of a suitable wavelength or the energy of a prior redox reactio...

20 Jan 2005

Floating Films on Liquid Mercury May Lead to Advances in Nanotechnology, Molecular Electronics

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin films of organic chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and...

17 Jan 2005

Copper Versus Copper Helps Explore For A New Form Of Matter

Scientists searching for evidence that a particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a new form of matter not seen since the Big Bang and eager to study its prop...

17 Jan 2005

Infineon Researchers Build World’s Smallest Non-Volatile Flash Memory Chip

In a research breakthrough that has broken records in the semiconductor industry, scientists at Infineon Technologies AG have built the world’s smallest non-volatile flash memory cell. The new memory cell is measur...

17 Dec 2004

Dow and Symyx Form Alliance to Enhance Dow's Research and Development Activities

The Dow Chemical Company and Symyx Technologies, Inc., today announced a five-year strategic alliance agreement to enhance research and development activity within Dow through high throughput experimentation technologies...

17 Dec 2004

WMC Ideally Placed to Deal with Increased Uranium Demand

With 38% of the world's known economic uranium resources, WMC Resources Ltd is uniquely placed among global uranium producers to benefit from forecast increases in uranium demand and prices. WMC's Olympic Dam ...

16 Dec 2004

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