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LyondellBasell Joint Venture Starts Producing Polypropylene in Korea

PolyMirae (PMC), a joint venture between Daelim and LyondellBasell Industries, has successfully started the operation of LyondellBasell's Metocene polypropylene technology. The company has installed this metallocene ...

From LyondellBasell Industries 8 Dec 2009

New Way to Tune Lasers to Work in the Terahertz Spectrum

MIT researchers have developed a new way to tune the frequency of lasers that operate in the terahertz spectrum. The result is an important step toward airport scanners that could tell whether a vial in a closed suitcase contains aspirin, methamphetamines or an explosive.

8 Dec 2009

World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser May Have Applications in Communications and Biohazard Detection

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, which may have applications to the Air Force in communications, computing and bio-hazard detection.

8 Dec 2009

Physicists Develop A Thermometer that Measures Temperatures Approaching Absolute Zero

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised a thermometer that can potentially measure temperatures as low as tens of trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.

8 Dec 2009

Magnetizable Liquids Could Help Detect Cancers Faster and More Accurately

A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December 7 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could dramatically improve the speed and sensitivity of tests used to detect cancer biomarkers, blood disorders, viruses and other diseases.

8 Dec 2009

Casimir Discoveries Expected to Have Profound Effect on Nanoscale Machines

Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famo...

8 Dec 2009

$X-Ray Diffraction Forms the Basis of Ultra High Resolution Imaging Technique$

X-Ray Diffraction Forms the Basis of Ultra High Resolution Imaging Technique

An ultra-high-resolution imaging technique using X-ray diffraction is a step closer to fulfilling its promise as a window on nanometer-scale structures in biological samples. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report progress in applying an approach to "lensless" X-ray microscopy that they introduced one year ago.

8 Dec 2009