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Timken Award-Winning StatusCheck System Receives Innovation of the Year Award

The Timken Company announced that its StatusCheck™ wireless condition monitoring system received the Innovation of the Year Award from Brammer plc, a European distributor. Brammer, headquartered in the United Ki...

From The Timken Co. 12 Sep 2008

MIT Reveal New Insights into Creating New Era of Detectors and Imaging Systems

A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in existence, according to new insights by an MIT...

12 Sep 2008

Scientists Develop Nano-Sized "Cargo Ships" to Deliver Anti-Cancer Drugs Throughout the Body

Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.

12 Sep 2008

New Detection Technology of Hidden Nuclear Materials Help in Protecting Ports and Across Borders

New technology under development at Idaho National Laboratory has been proven to safely detect hidden nuclear materials smuggled into ports and across borders. Now, the research being conducted by a team of INL and I...

12 Sep 2008

High-Resolution Snapshot of the Transformation of Nanoscale Structures a Breakthrough in Microscopy

Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science and electron microscopy by taking a high-resolution snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures. Using the Lab's Dynamic Transmission Electron ...

12 Sep 2008

NSF Awards Grant for Development of Nano/Micro Device Fabrication for Nano Sensors

A team from Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project, "MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching System for Nano/Micro Device Fabr...

12 Sep 2008

World's Most Powerful TEM Display Stunning Images of Individual Carbon Atoms in Graphene

Hailed as the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope, TEAM 0.5 is living up to expectations. TEAM 0.5, its newest instrument, is capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution, which is less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom.

11 Sep 2008

Eastman Chemical to Strengthen Presence in Russia Federation

In order to improve its service to a growing customer base in the Russian Federation and the other CIS countries, Eastman Chemical B.V. announced today the opening of a Representative Office in Moscow, Russian Federation...

11 Sep 2008

Global Technology Giants Pledge First -of- its-kind Eco-Patent Commons to Help the Environment

Bosch, DuPont and Xerox Corporation have joined the Eco-Patent Commons, a first-of-its-kind business effort to help the environment by pledging environmentally-beneficial patents to the public domain. The newly pledg...

11 Sep 2008

General Dynamics to Equip Stryker Brigade with New Light-Weight Integrated Fighting System

General Dynamics C4 Systems has been awarded a $70 million contract to equip the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team (5/2 SBCT) with a new, lighter-weight version of the Land Warrior integrated...

11 Sep 2008

Scientists Discover the First Civilization to Produce Glass in 3000B.C.

Archaeological evidence suggests that glass was first made in the Middle East sometime around 3000 B.C. However, almost 5,000 years later, scientists are still perplexed about how glassy materials make the transition from a molten state to a solid.

11 Sep 2008

W.M. Keck Foundation Awarded Grant for Development of Real Time Bio-Molecular Imaging

Researchers at the University of New Mexico were recently awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support a research program within the Department of Physics. The program, titled "A...

11 Sep 2008

European Commision Invest to Develop Sustainable Wood-Based Composite Materials

The European Commission has decided to invest 6.5 million Euro into a large scale project dealing with the development of sustainable wood-based composite materials for a wide range of applications. The SustainComp proje...

11 Sep 2008

Linde to Showcase Energy Effiicent Combustion and Heating Technology at Upcoming Aluminium 2008

Linde Gases Division, part of the Linde Group, today announced its participation at Aluminium 2008 in Essen, Germany. In addition to their Low-temperature Oxyfuel combustion technology which enables up to 50% decreas...

11 Sep 2008

Symyx Technologies Release New Informatic System Enhancing Productivity

Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced a significant new release of the Symyx Isentris® informatics system that provides many new, productivity-enhancing capabilities. Isentris 3.1 gives scientists the freedom to ...

11 Sep 2008

Materials Science News

Timken Award-Winning StatusCheck System Receives Innovation of the Year Award

MIT Reveal New Insights into Creating New Era of Detectors and Imaging Systems

Scientists Develop Nano-Sized "Cargo Ships" to Deliver Anti-Cancer Drugs Throughout the Body

New Detection Technology of Hidden Nuclear Materials Help in Protecting Ports and Across Borders

High-Resolution Snapshot of the Transformation of Nanoscale Structures a Breakthrough in Microscopy

NSF Awards Grant for Development of Nano/Micro Device Fabrication for Nano Sensors

World's Most Powerful TEM Display Stunning Images of Individual Carbon Atoms in Graphene

Eastman Chemical to Strengthen Presence in Russia Federation

Global Technology Giants Pledge First -of- its-kind Eco-Patent Commons to Help the Environment

General Dynamics to Equip Stryker Brigade with New Light-Weight Integrated Fighting System

Scientists Discover the First Civilization to Produce Glass in 3000B.C.

W.M. Keck Foundation Awarded Grant for Development of Real Time Bio-Molecular Imaging

European Commision Invest to Develop Sustainable Wood-Based Composite Materials

Linde to Showcase Energy Effiicent Combustion and Heating Technology at Upcoming Aluminium 2008

Symyx Technologies Release New Informatic System Enhancing Productivity

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