The Engineer
March 2005 Online
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Spam eater
31 Mar 2005
Technology developed by IBM helps filter and block spam by analysing the true origin of an email.
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Blade testing
31 Mar 2005
Researchers have developed a novel hydraulic resonance system to test wind turbine blades.
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Shape-shifting robot
31 Mar 2005
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center engineers have developed a new robot called TETWalker - so named because it resembles a tetrahedron.
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Bionic eye
31 Mar 2005
Stanford physicists and eye doctors have teamed up to design a bionic eye.
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Getting an eyeful
31 Mar 2005
SurModics has obtained an option to acquire an exclusive license from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to two classes of biodegradable polymers for use in the delivery of drugs to the eye.
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Chinese hydraulics
31 Mar 2005
Parker Hannifin is to form a joint venture with the China-based Tianjin Tejing Hydraulics Company to produce hydraulic components and systems in China.
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Swedish nuclear retrofit
31 Mar 2005
Alstom has won a contract worth around 190 million Euros to provide steam turbine and generator equipment as part of a project to increase the power output of Ringhals nuclear power station in Sweden.
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Siemens gets into gear
31 Mar 2005
Siemens is to acquire Flender Holding, one of the world's leading suppliers of gear systems, for 1.2 billion Euros.
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Protecting the coastline
31 Mar 2005
Engineers at the University of Liverpool are conducting research to reduce the threat posed to homes and property by ocean waves.
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Cancer research
31 Mar 2005
Europe needs to double the amount it spends on cancer research, according to a new survey.
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Noise improves balance
31 Mar 2005
Using a phenomenon called stochastic resonance, US researchers have found a way to boost the flow of data to the brain and improve balance.
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Protein display
31 Mar 2005
An Israeli research team has manufactured new organic semiconductors materials using proteins linked together in chains.
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Powering portables
31 Mar 2005
Texas Instruments has developed a charge and power management chip that combines a single-cell Li-Ion USB/AC charger with a synchronous DC/DC power converter.
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Fast charger
30 Mar 2005
Toshiba Corporation has developed a prototype lithium-ion battery that makes long recharge times a thing of the past.
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Masters of maths
30 Mar 2005
Some engineers are so concerned with getting their results down on paper they are ignoring the vitally important concept of presenting their methodolody to their colleagues in an understandable fashion.
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Scaling back
30 Mar 2005
Manufacturers have reined back their output expectations in the face of subdued demand, according to the latest CBI Survey.
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Deep-sea tremors
30 Mar 2005
Predicting when large earthquakes might occur may be a step closer to reality, thanks to a new study of undersea earthquakes in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Chip-level copper circuitry
30 Mar 2005
A new dielectric material could facilitate the use of copper circuitry at the chip level.
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Juniper buys Kagoor
30 Mar 2005
Juniper Networks is to acquire Session Border Controller supplier Kagoor Networks for $67.5 million in cash.
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Hydrogen train
29 Mar 2005
The Danish region of western Jutland is hoping to become the home of Europe's first hydrogen powered train.
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PlayStation patent
29 Mar 2005
A California District Court has ordered Sony to pay $90.7 million to San Jose, CA-based haptic-technology developer Immersion for infringing its patents.
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Howitzer millions
29 Mar 2005
BAE Systems has been awarded an $834 million dollar contract for full-rate production of the M777A1 lightweight 155mm howitzer.
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Environmentally friendly anodising
29 Mar 2005
Tecan has developed an environmentally friendly process for the anodising of titanium parts - a process believed to be unique in the UK.
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Fleet street
29 Mar 2005
Japan’s World Expo visitors hitch a lift in driverless buses.
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Interstate Orange
24 Mar 2005
A US company is to deploy an unusual renewable energy source to power facilities at a rest area on a US interstate highway.
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Killing mouse tremors
24 Mar 2005
IBM researchers have invented a new computer mouse adapter that enables people who suffer from hand tremors to eliminate excessive cursor movement.
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Cleaning up Russia
24 Mar 2005
Nigel Griffiths, the UK Trade and Industry Minister has announced further funding of over £1 million for a joint study with Sweden to look at the future management of spent nuclear fuel at Andreeva Bay in North West Russia.
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Snakebot
24 Mar 2005
A virtually unstoppable snakebot resembles a high-tech slinky as it climbs pipes and stairs and rolls over rough terrain.
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Laser beam
24 Mar 2005
Engineers have laid the foundations for a new type of "plug and play" laser - the Raman injection laser - and in the process, several key innovations in laser technology.
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Buying batteries
24 Mar 2005
Johnson Controls is to acquire Delphi Corporation’s global automotive battery business for approximately $212.5 million.
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Bigger than the blimp
24 Mar 2005
Four times bigger than the Goodyear blimp, a high-altitude, helium-filled craft will be able to hover over the same spot for up to a year.
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Full chicken jacket
23 Mar 2005
A revolutionary invention lets people interact with chickens remotely over the Internet.
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Semi suppliers merge
22 Mar 2005
Chaska, MN-based Entegris is to merge with Mykrolis in a deal that will create a combined company valued at over $1.3 billion.
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Dynamic measurements
22 Mar 2005
Design and test engineers can now use a single modular instrument to make a wide range of dynamic measurements.
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Selling aluminium
22 Mar 2005
Alcoa is to sell its 46.5% stake in the Norwegian metals firm Elkem to Orkla.
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Hydrogen storage
22 Mar 2005
US researchers have found a way to release hydrogen from a solid compound almost 100 times faster than was previously possible.
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UTC to acquire Lenel
22 Mar 2005
United Technologies plans to acquire Rochester, NY-based Lenel Systems International, the security systems and software developer for $400 million.
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JDS Uniphase buys lasers
22 Mar 2005
JDS Uniphase is to acquire Lightwave Electronics, the solid-state laser developer, in an all cash transaction for $65 million.
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SAP bows out
22 Mar 2005
Oracle is to acquire Retek at a price of $11.25 for each outstanding Retek share after its German competitor SAP dropped out of the bidding.
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Fuel-cell motorbike
22 Mar 2005
UK-based Intelligent Energy has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first fuel-cell motorbike.
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Vietnamese Civic
21 Mar 2005
Honda is to build a new automobile manufacturing facility in Vietnam.
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Indians go to the moon
21 Mar 2005
The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch a satellite to help unravel mysteries about the Moon.
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Billion dollar image
21 Mar 2005
Siemens is to buy positron emission tomography supplier CTI Molecular Imaging in a $1 billion dollar deal.
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In contrast
21 Mar 2005
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have ‘programmed’ cells to make their own contrast agents.
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Risky railways
18 Mar 2005
A new report has found that there is a pervasive and self-sustaining culture of risk averse or over-cautious behaviour in the UK rail industry.
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Microspectrophotometer
18 Mar 2005
CRAIC Technologies has introduced a microspectrophotometer that integrates a UV-visible-NIR spectrophotoemeter with a research grade UV-visible-NIR microscope.
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$202 million locos
18 Mar 2005
Bombardier Transportation has received an order from Angel Trains for the delivery of 36 TRAXX locomotives.
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Brain wave
18 Mar 2005
US scientists have confirmed that an area of the brain known as the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex is involved in the planning stages of movement.
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Climate change inevitable
18 Mar 2005
Even if no more greenhouse gases were added to the atmosphere, surface air temperatures would rise about a 1/2 degree C and global sea levels would rise another 11 centimetres.
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Spot the criminal
18 Mar 2005
A new material developed by QinetiQ may allow police to distinguish between pursuit cars and offenders during chases at night and in bad weather.
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Nanotech bacteria detector
18 Mar 2005
A group of Texas A&M University researchers have developed a novel technique called SEnsing of Phage-Triggered Ion Cascade, or SEPTIC to rapidly detect and identify bacteria.
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Synthetic mother of pearl
18 Mar 2005
It's possible to grow thin films of mother of pearl in the laboratory that are even stronger than the super-strong material that naturally lines the inside of abalone shells. The trick is to add compounds normally found in insect shells and fungi cell walls to the recipe.
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SAP saga continues
18 Mar 2005
Oracle Corporation clearly doesn’t want Retek to fall into the hands of its competitor SAP. Just yesterday, it raised its cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Retek to $11.25 per share.
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Competitive coating
18 Mar 2005
A new insulating coating for dies has been developed that can last up to 10 times longer than traditional coatings.
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Complex instincts
17 Mar 2005
Modelled on the behaviour of rats, robots developed at Sheffield University are designed to tackle relatively complex operations.
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Upping the ante
17 Mar 2005
SAP America has increased its tender offer price for Retek to $11.00 per share, fighting off an earlier bid by competitor Oracle.
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Snow machine
17 Mar 2005
US scientists have developed a novel machining technique that uses a jet of solid carbon dioxide to cool and lubricate the surface of metal parts and remove the cut material during machining.
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Non-volatile memory
17 Mar 2005
A Philips Research team have developed a non-volatile memory that scales in size and performance in line with deep sub-micron silicon chip technology.
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Reducing mercury emissions
17 Mar 2005
The US EPA has announced new rules that would reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants 20% by 2010, with a goal of 70% reduction by 2018.
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Mining the seafloor
17 Mar 2005
US researchers have recreated the conditions of the seafloor to study methane-hydrates, an abundant, but currently out-of-reach, source of natural gas.
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Maximum capacity
16 Mar 2005
The fundamental capacity limits of wireless networks may finally be characterized thanks to an electrical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Grid surpasses 100 sites
16 Mar 2005
Yesterday, the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project announced that its massive computing Grid now includes more than 100 sites in 31 countries.
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Jet testing
16 Mar 2005
The US Department of Defense has awarded Brigham Young University researchers nearly $1 million to develop technology that streamlines the testing of jets..
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195 million Euros in the post
16 Mar 2005
Siemens’ Logistics and Assembly Systems Group has won a major order from the Swiss Post to supply automation systems for three new mail sorting centers and six subcentres in Switzerland.
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Implanted sensors
16 Mar 2005
Developing chemical sensors that can be placed in the bloodstream or under the skin to continuously monitor oxygen, acidity, or glucose levels is a major challenge for analytical chemists and biomedical engineers.
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No Spyware here
16 Mar 2005
Computer users around the world are worried about the effects of software downloaded onto their computers without their knowledge while they browse the Internet.
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The eagle has scanned it
15 Mar 2005
Boeing and The Insitu Group recently demonstrated new software aboard the ScanEagle UAV that allowed it to autonomously map its route while in flight.
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Biological search engine
15 Mar 2005
Berkeley Lab researchers have developed an innovative search engine that simulates the way scientists think.
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Submarine cable upgrade
15 Mar 2005
Alcatel has been awarded a multi-million dollar turnkey contract to upgrade the Sea-Me-We 3 submarine cable network.
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Communication instrumentation
15 Mar 2005
Engineers and scientists can now generate RF and baseband signals with a new National Instruments RF vector signal generator and an arbitrary waveform generator with onboard signal processing.
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Global broadband
15 Mar 2005
Last Friday, Inmarsat’s I-4 satellite was successfully sent into space from Cape Canaveral, FL on board an Atlas V rocket.
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Nanomechanical data storage
15 Mar 2005
Researchers from IBM’s Zurich facility have shown the prototype of a MEMS-based nanomechanical storage device for the first time at the CeBit show in Germany.
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8-bit flash microcontrollers
14 Mar 2005
Atmel Corporation has introduced five new Flash microcontrollers targeted at applications that require a large code space.
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Microsoft gets in the Groove
14 Mar 2005
Microsoft is to buy the software house Groove Networks for an undisclosed sum.
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Better weather
14 Mar 2005
A team of researchers at NASA's Langley Research Centre has equipped a fleet of commuter aircraft with instrumentation that can help bring better weather information to pilots and forecasters.
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WiFi reference
14 Mar 2005
Green Hills Software has introduced a WiFi reference platform for developers of electronic products that incorporate wireless LAN interfaces based on IEEE 802.11 standards.
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Spinfire for the Office
14 Mar 2005
California software house Actify has developed new software that will allow Microsoft Office users to embed 2D and 3D design data into their Office programs and then share the same with their colleagues.
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IBM buys Ascential
14 Mar 2005
IBM is to acquire Ascential Software, the Westboro, MA provider of enterprise data integration software, for $1.1 billion in cash.
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Fingerprint visualization
14 Mar 2005
US chemists say they have developed a new fingerprint visualization technique using X-rays that leaves prints intact.
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£241m M1 widening
11 Mar 2005
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract of £241 million to widen the M1 from Junction 6A to Junction 10 for the UK Highways Agency.
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Earth's interior
11 Mar 2005
University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have devised a way to produce quicker, cheaper and clearer images of the Earth's interior.
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DARPA funds Gallium Nitride research
11 Mar 2005
TriQuint Semiconductor has been awarded a multi-year contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop high power wide band amplifiers in gallium nitride.
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Japan’s first WiMAX network
11 Mar 2005
Florida-based Airspan Networks and Yozan, the Japanese telecommunications operator, are to deploy a WiMAX network in Tokyo.
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Money for metals
11 Mar 2005
Investors are pledging £5m support in the future of a novel electrolytic metals processing method.
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Dropping bombs from UAVs
11 Mar 2005
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated that it can release a weapon from a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrator.
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Pattern matching
11 Mar 2005
A new geometric-based search technique is proving to be extremely reliable in locating the position and orientation of a pattern despite highly degraded images.
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Discovering Telomerase
11 Mar 2005
UCLA biochemists have determined the three-dimensional structure of a major domain of telomerase.
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Wind power grows
11 Mar 2005
The global wind power industry installed 7,976MW in 2004, an increase in total installed generating capacity of 20%, according to figures released this month.
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Multibeam antenna
11 Mar 2005
Danish Radio has signed an agreement with TST Kommunikations Technik TST to purchase two Australian-designed, CSIRO ICT Centre MultiBeam antenna systems.
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Accidental electrocution
11 Mar 2005
Sarnoff Corporation has developed a mobile system that can check street-level objects for “stray voltage” leaks that can injure and kill pedestrians in urban centres.
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Open source
11 Mar 2005
Major European research institutions and Open Source software companies have announced the launch of EDOS, a project that deals with complexity management in the field of Open Source software.
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Value for money
11 Mar 2005
To assist with the speedy design of customised components, software resellers are offering mainstream products which not only cost each part but also enable better customer service.
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Guarding against foam flaws
11 Mar 2005
The engineers who built the external fuel tank that will power the shuttle Discovery into orbit this spring used X-ray detectors developed by UF researchers to reduce the chance of a defect in the foam insulation covering the tank.
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Air conditioning
10 Mar 2005
Kariya, Japan-based Denso has formed a new company to produce heat exchangers for car air conditioners and radiators in Tianjin, China.
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Plutonium decontamination
10 Mar 2005
US researchers have determined the crystal structure of a molecular complex that has shown promise as a sequestering agent for plutonium and other members of the actinide family of elements.
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BASF and Sakai make the grade
10 Mar 2005
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Germany has agreed to collaborate with Sakai Chemical Industry Company, Japan on new microfine titanium dioxide grades.
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Fab for sale
10 Mar 2005
National Semiconductor Corporation today announced that it is seeking a buyer for its assembly and test plant in Toa Payoh, Singapore.
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Helium for Darwin
10 Mar 2005
BOC has announced plans to build a new liquid helium plant in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The new facility will be the first helium plant in Australia ...
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Power for Saudi Arabia
10 Mar 2005
An Alstom-led consortium has won a €627 million contract with Saudi Electricity Company to add three generating blocks to the Saudi Arabian Shoaiba power plant.
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Acoustic monitor
9 Mar 2005
A new, lightweight device that detects leaks in natural gas pipelines has been successfully tested on a transmission main owned and operated by Dominion Transmission in Morgantown, W.Va.
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CFD FEA coupling
9 Mar 2005
FEA supplier Abaqus and CFD vendor Fluent have developed a new software capability to allow designers to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI).
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Comcast and Motorola enter $1 billion agreement
9 Mar 2005
Comcast and Motorola have entered into an agreement whereby Comcast will purchase set-tops and network equipment valued at more than $1 billion.
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Cutting colourful chores
9 Mar 2005
A computer-assisted method for converting black and white images and movies into colour has been developed by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Research delivers a quantum dot
9 Mar 2005
University of Arkansas researchers have witnessed the birth of a quantum dot and learned more about how such atomic islands form and grow, using the ultrahigh vacuum facilities.
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Identifying the symptoms
8 Mar 2005
A new anti- virus solution from BT can stop potentially devastating e-mail viruses in their tracks.
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Buying uranium
8 Mar 2005
BHP Billiton has made a cash offer of $7.3 billion to acquire the Australian minerals, metals and fertilizers outfit WMC Resources.
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Controllers triple processing performance
8 Mar 2005
Engineers and scientists building processing-intensive control applications now can triple their processing performance with a new family of Compact FieldPoint controllers from National Instruments.
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Renewable energy
8 Mar 2005
One of the UK’s largest biomass renewable energy projects has been given the green light on Teesside.
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Capacitance and impedance converters
8 Mar 2005
Analog Devices has introduced new families of capacitance-to-digital converters and impedance-to-digital converters to simplify instrumentation and sensor design in industrial, automotive, and medical applications.
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Chromosome damage
8 Mar 2005
A new study of 60 newborns in New York City has revealed that exposure of expectant mothers to combustion-related urban air pollution may alter the structure of babies' chromosomes while in the womb.
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Dynegy cleans-up
8 Mar 2005
Dynegy is to invest up to $545 million in emission control technologies to resolve environmental litigation relating to pollution problems at its Baldwin Energy Complex in Illinois.
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More wind in Oklahoma
8 Mar 2005
Denmark’s Vestas Group will provide 84 V80-1.8 MW wind turbines for the expansion of Blue Canyon Wind Farm, a wind power plant located in southwest Oklahoma.
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Non-toxic shot-stopper
8 Mar 2005
A new material developed in the US can serve as armour and as a replacement for beryllium, a toxic metal commonly used in aerospace applications.
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Taking a liberty
8 Mar 2005
Dave Wilson describes how new data mining software could help the police nab terrorists.
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US aerospace has wings
8 Mar 2005
According to the Aerospace Industries Association, the US aerospace industry expanded its foreign trade surplus in 2004, increasing the positive balance by $4 billion to reach $31 billion.
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980nm pump laser module
7 Mar 2005
Look for optical component vendor Bookham to introduce its new LC96 980nm pump laser module at this week’s OFC/NFOEC (8-10 March, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California).
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Buying Bluetooth
7 Mar 2005
Broadcom is to acquire Zeevo, the Santa Clara, CA provider of semiconductor and software for Bluetooth wireless headset products, for $32.0 million.
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Slowdown
7 Mar 2005
A new survey shows that output and orders in the UK fell back over the last three months, with growth at its slowest pace since Q4 2003.
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BAE Systems to buy UDI
7 Mar 2005
BAE Systems is to acquire United Defense Industries for $4 billion while US-based Rockwell Collins is to buy the German military aviation electronics outfit Teldix for at approximately $94 million.
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No displays in Durham
7 Mar 2005
LG Philips Displays is to close its plant at Durham in North East England due to ‘crippling price erosion’ and a ‘shift in demand from Europe to Asia Pacific’.
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A different orientation
7 Mar 2005
A team of University of Pittsburgh researchers have created self-assembling mixtures of nanoparticles and polymer layers that spontaneously assume different orientations.
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Concrete future for Hanson
7 Mar 2005
Hanson, an international building materials company, has acquired Thermalite, the British manufacturer and supplier of aircrete lightweight concrete blocks, from Etex Group for £120 million.
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Thermoelectric cobaltate grown on silicon
7 Mar 2005
Thin films made of so-called thermoelectric materials could be used to convert heat directly into electric energy, or visa versa, for a variety of applications.
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Through the nanograss
7 Mar 2005
Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs today announced the launch of a new research project that aims to use nano-textured surfaces to solve the extreme thermal management challenges of advanced electronic and photonic systems.
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Vehicle barriers
7 Mar 2005
Intelligent Perimeter Systems (IPS), a US manufacturer of vehicle barrier and traffic control systems, has installed an innovative perimeter security system at an undisclosed US Bureau of Reclamation dam in the western US.
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SAS/SATA RAID-on-chip
4 Mar 2005
Broadcom has developed what it claims is the industry's first SAS/SATA RAID-on-Chip (RoC) device targeted at volume server and workstation markets.
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Selling drives
4 Mar 2005
Metso Corporation is to sell Metso Drives, a manufacturer of mechanical power transmission equipment, to CapMan, the Nordic private equity investor for about 98 million Euros.
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Ups and downs
4 Mar 2005
Worldwide microchip sales of $18.3 billion in January were 0.5% below December sales of $18.4 billion but 17.5% higher than January of 2004 sales of $15.6 billion.
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A better diagnosis
4 Mar 2005
A new European system based on confocal imaging promises to improve detection and diagnosis rates for skin cancer by 20 per cent.
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Colour-coded warnings
4 Mar 2005
Siemens Automation and Drives has added new diagnostic functions to its Sipart PS2 electropneumatic positioner. The positioner signals imminent malfunctions in the valve or actuator using “traffic light signalling”.
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Buffers good for comms
3 Mar 2005
Texas Instruments has introduced eight new high gain output oscillator buffers.
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Space bones
3 Mar 2005
A portable imaging device currently in development will produce clear, highly detailed pictures of bone and tissue, helping physicians manage bone health in space and on Earth.
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China keeps top tool spot
3 Mar 2005
Two years ago China moved from fourth to first place in consumption of machine tools. It stayed there a year ago and again retains that top spot, further increasing its lead over other consuming countries.
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The planes from Shanghai
3 Mar 2005
Alcoa has received a multiyear contract from the Chinese aircraft manufacturer Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (SAMF) to provide aluminium extrusions for the horizontal stabiliser, tail section assembly of the Boeing 737.
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FlexDMM
3 Mar 2005
Engineers now can accurately measure from picoamps to kilovolts with the new National Instruments PXI-4071 FlexDMM.
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Energy from Cornwall
3 Mar 2005
A system that uses the tidal stream in conjunction with the natural rise and fall of the tide to create electricity has been developed by a company based in Cornwall.
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Wind in Canada
3 Mar 2005
GE Energy has signed contracts with two developers to supply up to 660 wind turbines for eight projects in the province of Quebec.
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Hotter running engines
3 Mar 2005
US researchers have developed a new bond coat for thermal barrier coatings that may allow gas turbine engines to better withstand high-temperatures.
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Siemens to power Yemen
3 Mar 2005
A Siemens-led consortium has secured a contract worth approximately 120 million Euros to construct a gas turbine power plant in Yemen.
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Tagged and tracked
3 Mar 2005
A new system that provides real-time tracking and tracing for goods being transported around the world has been developed with the help of the EUs Framework Programme.
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Seamless access to materials database
2 Mar 2005
SolidWorks and COSMOS software users can effortlessly import part material information from a growing collection of 47,000 material data sheets through a new partnership with online information provider MatWeb.
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Citizen Broadband
2 Mar 2005
UK citizens will suffer severe consequences from their lack of desire to embrace ‘Broadband technology’. Dave Wilson takes a walk down Coronation Street to find out why.
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EDS awarded £2.3 billion
2 Mar 2005
EDS today confirmed its ATLAS Consortium has been selected as the preferred bidder for the first “increment” of the UK’s Defence Information Infrastructure Future DII (F) project.
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Region Skåne adds to rail order
2 Mar 2005
Bombardier has received an additional order worth $77 million from Region Skåne for the production and delivery of eight, three-car electric multiple units.
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Saab and Airbus sign A400M contract
2 Mar 2005
Saab has received an order worth up to 45 million Euros for development, production and support of the High Lift Control & Monitoring System for the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft.
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TiO2 site for Dongying?
2 Mar 2005
DuPont and the city of Dongying, China have begun talks that could lead to construction of a world-class titanium dioxide plant in the city's Economic Development Zone.
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Titan fined $28.5 million
2 Mar 2005
The US Securities Exchange Commission has announced the filing of a settled enforcement action charging The Titan Corporation with violating certain provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Phones recognise their owners
1 Mar 2005
Omron Corporation has developed face recognition software that can be deployed in mobile phones or any other mobile devices with a built in camera.
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Diminish debug downtime
1 Mar 2005
Agilent Technologies recently introduced 12 portable digital storage and mixed signal oscilloscopes with bandwidths of 300 MHz, 500 MHz and the industry's first portable 1 GHz offering.
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DNA enters electronic age
1 Mar 2005
Researchers have attached magnetic nanoparticles to DNA and then cut these "DNA wires" into pieces, offering the promise of creating low-cost, self-assembling devices for future computers.
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Making munitions manifest
1 Mar 2005
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a detector that can see through lead or other heavy shielding in truck trailers or cargo containers to detect uranium, plutonium or other dense materials.
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UK signs with GIF
1 Mar 2005
Five nations, including the UK, yesterday signed an agreement that will facilitate the start of an international effort to research advanced nuclear reactor systems.
