• Media Sentiment has issued a new real-time alert for SCON

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:24:46
    Media Sentiment has issued a new real-time alert for SCON earnings news sentiment: HeadsUp - One Thumb Down

  • First Solar to acquire NextLight for $245 million

    Updated: 2010-04-30 02:24:06
    CNET News: Solar-panel manufacturer First Solar announced Wednesday it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase solar-project developer NextLight Renewable Power for approximately $285 million.

  • Space balloon crashes in Australia

    Updated: 2010-04-30 02:24:04
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A multi-million dollar scientific space balloon has crashed on take-off in Alice Springs, destroying its payload, tipping over a car and sending observers running for their lives.

  • 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress incorporating the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology

    Updated: 2010-04-29 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 5 Dec 2010 - 9 Dec 2010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Organized by Australian Institute of Physics / Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology / Australian Optical Society.

  • Has science became cool?

    Updated: 2010-04-28 22:06:13
    The Guardian: The incredible ambition of the Large Hadron Collider has fired our imagination; physicists have become cult TV stars; dramatic new pictures from space grace a million computer screensavers. Is this a golden age of science? The Guardian asks Brian Cox, Martin Rees, Alok Jha, Kevin Fong, Dara O Briain, Tim Radford, Sam Wollaston, Laura Spinney, Ian Sample, and Alice Roberts, for answers.

  • Oak Ridge looking at reprocessing nuclear waste

    Updated: 2010-04-28 22:06:12
    Physics Today News Picks A blog of hand-picked science news from the staff of Physics Today Home Print edition Advertising Buyers Guide Jobs Events calendar The heart of NASA's supercomputer center News Picks home Has science became cool Oak Ridge looking at reprocessing nuclear waste By Physics Today on April 28, 2010 10:53 AM No Comments No TrackBacks NPR The Obama administration is promoting nuclear power , but at the same time it has put an end to plans to bury nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain , . Nevada Now , a blue-ribbon committee is pondering what to do with the waste . One option under consideration is a process that would dramatically reduce its radioactive . lifetime Less than 1 of spent reactor fuel is made up of the nasty radioactive elements that last hundreds of thousands of

  • The work against nuclear proliferation at Los Alamos

    Updated: 2010-04-28 22:06:10
    NPR: Although Los Alamos National Laboratory is known for designing nuclear weapons and maintaining the viability of the US stockpile, the lab is also a center for finding ways to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Los Alamos has trained some 5000 inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over 30 years. They've come from more than 40 countries, according to David Bracken, a former deputy group leader.

  • Nanotube 'fuzz' boosts optical performance

    Updated: 2010-04-28 15:59:56
    Carbon and gold join forces in photonic metamaterial

  • DYNAFLOW, INC.

    Updated: 2010-04-28 15:27:30
    DYNAFLOW provides R&D services and products in fluid dynamics and material sciences. As a leader in bubble dynamics, cavitation and erosion dynamics, DYNAFLOW, serves the marine, energy, environmental, chemical, biomedical and agriculture industries.

  • Nyfors Teknologi AB

    Updated: 2010-04-28 15:26:46
    Nyfors Teknologi AB develops and manufactures systems for preparation and testing in the field of fiber optic fusion splicing. Our products includes manual and automated systems for stripping, cleaving, recoating and proof-testing and fiber testing.

  • DR-BDT12D Semiconductor End-Pump Laser Marking Machine

    Updated: 2010-04-28 11:54:36
    Maximum laser power: 12W Laser wavelength: 1064nm Beam quality M2:

  • Helped by acquisition, Xerox posts revenue growth

    Updated: 2010-04-27 01:29:39
    New York Times: Xerox Corp's purchase last September of Affiliated Computer Services Inc has helped to raise the high-tech company's revenue and share price. The acquisition of ACS, which sells data services to a wide range of businesses, could signal Xerox's shift toward services and away from manufacturing.

  • An oceanic 'fast-lane' for climate change

    Updated: 2010-04-27 01:29:38
    Nature: Thanks to extensive, long-term monitoring, a team from Japan and Australia has measured the properties of a deep ocean current that flows northward from Antarctica. The current is important both for the current climate, because of its unexpected vigor, and for the future climate, because disrupting it could bring about major changes.

  • Mars rovers set to break Red Planet record

    Updated: 2010-04-27 01:29:37
    SPACE.com: NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars on 4 January 2004. This week, if Spirit wakes up from a likely power-saving safe-mode, it will surpass Viking's record mission of six years and 116 days on the Martian surface. If Spirit remains in hibernation, the record will belong to its sister rover Opportunity, which landed on Mars 11 days later and is still operating.

  • A prof at 70: Having fun, feeling guilty

    Updated: 2010-04-27 01:29:37
    Chronicle of Higher Education: Some countries, including Canada, Japan, and Germany, set a mandatory retirement age for public employees, including professors at public universities. The US doesn't. In a commentary, Michael Ruse, a forced retiree who left Ontario for a job at Florida State, examines the pros and cons of mandatory retirement in academia.

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