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On Our Radar: Funds Are Short for Experimental Reactor
Europe's largest experimental fusion reactor faces financing problems.
U.S. advanced battery production rises
WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- U.S. production of batteries for alternative-power vehicles rose by 38 percent in five years, the U.S. Department of Energy said. ...
'God particle' not found despite rumor
BATAVIA, Ill., July 14 (UPI) -- Media reports that an American particle physics lab has discovered the long-sought "God particle" have no factual basis, a lab official said. ...
Italy's Enel opens innovative solar power plant
Italian energy company Enel on Wednesday inaugurated an innovative solar thermal plant that stores heat from the sun in molten salts.
PNNL, Chinese Researchers Begin Cooperative Clean Energy Work
Researchers from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have formed the Clean Energy Partnership to accelerate the...
Advertising: Is That J.R. Ewing Pushing Solar Energy?
Larry Hagman, now 78, reprises his role as the shifty J. R. Ewing in an ad for SolarWorld, a German maker of photovoltaic modules.
Patent improved growth factor technology
Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Biosurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. (BioSET) of Rockville, Maryland, have been issued a U.S. patent for an improved second-generation...
Science City stores heat in the ground
A groundbreaking project is currently being implemented on the Honggerberg Campus: in future, waste heat from buildings on the Science City Campus will be stored in the earth during the...
Upping The Ante
Mergers and Acquisitions: Air Products hopes better offer will entice Airgas shareholders.
NJIT licensee invents industrial process for grinding cement and other cementitious materials
Flyanic (www.flyanic.com), a cementitious mineral processing technology company and licensee of NJIT, has developed an industrial scale and affordable process for grinding cement, fly ash, and other...
Imec reports record efficiencies for large-area epitaxial thin-film silicon solar cells
Imec realized large-area (70cm2) epitaxial solar cells with efficiencies of up to 16.3% on high-quality substrates. And efficiencies of up to 14.7% were achieved on large-area low-quality substrates, showing the...
Professor shows the 'wonder-full' side of physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- The audience laughs and applauds as the performers on stage pull trick after trick from their sleeves: suspending a ball in midair, defying gravity, turning water into ice...
Nobel prize winner unveils the World's largest diffraction pattern
During a visit to Diamond Light Source, the UK`s national synchrotron science facility, on Friday 9th July, Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, unveiled the...
Space arms control treaty unlikely in near-term: US
The United States said Tuesday that a space arms control treaty was unlikely to emerge in the near future as it still sees flaws in drafts being tabled at the...
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $2.04 Million to Rensselaer Nuclear Engineering Program
More than $2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy will strengthen nuclear research and education, and help develop the next generation of nuclear technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic...
NMR: Nobel work if you can get it
Richard Ernst won the Nobel Prize for his work on NMR spectroscopy, but has seldom used the technique experimentally. He talks to Chemistry World about his career, the future of...
Big science future for Australia
Australia could soon benefit from highly sensitive coloured x-ray imaging and powerful new tools to reveal the structure of materials in unprecedented detail and provide major advances in medicine and...
London pushes energy independence program
LONDON, July 13 (UPI) -- Allowing communities in the United Kingdom to sell their own energy will generate much needed revenue while ensuring energy security, officials said. ...
Sun's dark matter trap
The Sun could be the best place to look for dark matter - the invisible ‘stuff` that is thought to make up about 83% of the matter in the Universe.
Magnets trump metallics: Magnetic fields can turn highly conductive nanotubes into semiconductors
Physicists have been studying the Aharonov-Bohm effect -- the interaction between electrically charged particles and magnetic fields -- and how it relates to carbon nanotubes. While doing so, they came...
Physicist's blog post rumors Higgs discovery at Fermilab
(PhysOrg.com) -- A rumor that Fermilab`s Tevatron may have discovered evidence of a light Higgs boson wouldn't be the first unsupported speculation from Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University...
Japanese Solar Sail Successfully Rides Sunlight
A Japanese solar sail has felt its first accelerating push from sunlight in a successful test of its novel propulsion system.
Tiny Satellites for Big Science
The shrinking technology of cell phones, laptops and cameras are now leading to palm-sized satellites. Easy to build and affordable, these small satellites offer a new way to conduct astrobiology...
For a Proton, a Little Off the Top (or Side) Could Be Big Trouble
A subatomic particle that anchors atoms and is the building block of all ordinary matter is 4 percent smaller, an experiment shows.
WSU led Bio-Jet fuel project officially gets off the ground
A major Washington State University effort to develop aviation bio-fuel is underway with the announcement of a strategic initiative called the "Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest" project; the first of its...
Faulty Turbopump Caused April Rocket Crash In India
A faulty turbopump has been identified as the cause of an April rocket crash in India, but engineers are still unsure why the hardware broke down in the first place.
Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes on Newton
A string theorist is not tethered to the notion of gravity, saying the force is a consequence of thermodynamics.
New Method Detects Particularly Toxic Arsenic Compound
Water Pollution: Scientists measure chemical at levels one-million times greater than previously detected.