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Simplifying Connectivity

Simplifying Connectivity

ICONICS has announced the GENESIS64, V. 10.5, featuring OPC Unified Architecture and 64-bit multi-core hardware.

People Protection

Anna Wells, Editor, IMPO For industrial manufacturers, safety and compliance can sometimes become an ‘out of sight, out of mind issue’-meaning, it becomes most critical when there is a breach of protocol, or worse, an accident where an employee’s safety is put at risk.

Surface Characterization Spectrometer With Optimized Workflow

Surface Characterization Spectrometer With Optimized Workflow

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has released the Escalab 250Xi X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS). This surface characterization tool is designed for surface chemistry research and development applications as well as routine characterization of surfaces, thin films and coatings.

Breaking Down Biodegradable Plastic Packaging Material

Interest in biodegradable disposable plastic items has steadily grown over the last decade. With packaging materials, the reduction in usage of raw materials, re-use and recycling are the best route to a sustainable lifestyle.

Sapphire's Superior Strain Of Algae

Jim Lane Biofuels Digest - November 17, 2009 Thanksgiving approaches and holiday baking looms - a week when family recipes are swapped and downloaded in huge volumes.

Taxing The Sweet Tooth

Taxing The Sweet Tooth

A small tax on sugary beverages would not affect the pocketbooks of occasional soda-drinkers, but it could curb the kind of excessive soda consumption that leads to obesity.

Combined HART Communicator & Calibrator

Combined HART Communicator & Calibrator

The hand-held DPI 620 advanced multifunction calibrator from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies now incorporates full HART® capability, making it the only combined HART communicator and calibrator currently on the market.

Kansas University Researchers Turn Sewage To Fuel

MARK FAGAN Associated Press Writer - November 16, 2009 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -

Cereplast: U.S. Bioplastics Market To Top $10B By 2020

HAWTHORNE, Calif.( BUSINESS WIRE ) - Cereplast, Inc. (OTCBB: CERP ), a leading manufacturer of proprietary bio-based, sustainable plastics, announced today that it expects the U.S. bio-plastics market to top $10 billion in sales by 2020. As of 2007, the U.S.

Pressure Relief System Management

Pressure Relief System Management

Farris Engineering Services’ iPRSM® software for pressure relief system management has a unique web-based design and contains innovative impact analysis capabilities.

EU Steelmakers Against Iron Price Hikes

2 hours ago | News

Steelmakers say price hikes of between 80 and 90 percent for steel's raw ingredient would have a significant impact on steel prices.

Gas Line Explodes near Oklahoma City

2 hours ago | News

A natural gas line explosion northeast of Oklahoma City sent flames into the air but caused little damage and no injuries.

OSU Engineer Designing New-Generation Reactor

2 hours ago | News

Regulators estimate the frequency of a complete nuclear reactor meltdown at about once every 1 million years, yet this reactor's odds are once every 100 million.

Western U.S., Canada Go Own Way on Carbon Trading

16 hours ago | News

As U.S. prospects for a national climate change bill fade, five U.S. states and Canadian provinces are on track to start a cap-and-trade market for carbon dioxide in 2012.

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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

SuperSite: dictionary of metabolite and drug binding sites in proteins.

Feb 10

The increasing structural information about target-bound compounds provide a rich basis to study the binding mechanisms of metabolites and drugs. SuperSite is a database, which combines the structural information with various tools for the analysis of molecular recognition. The...

MMsINC: a large-scale chemoinformatics database.

Feb 10

MMsINC (http://mms.dsfarm.unipd.it/MMsINC/search) is a database of non-redundant, richly annotated and biomedically relevant chemical structures. A primary goal of MMsINC is to guarantee the highest quality and the uniqueness of each entry. MMsINC then adds value to these...

Targeted small-molecule inhibitors of protein kinase B as anticancer agents.

Feb 10

Protein kinase B (PKB or Akt) is a central component of the PI3K - PKB - mTOR signalling cascade and is firmly established as an attractive target for pharmacological intervention in cancer. A number of small molecule inhibitors with well-defined, direct molecular interactions...

We Regret to Inform You

We Regret to Inform You

Mar 11

Just when I thought it was safe to get in front of my computer, I find out that it’ll kill me — and management knew all along.

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Mar 9

The reality of the situation is that experts are predicting a world population of 9.5 billion by 2050 — meaning that our global food production will have to double.

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

Mar 8

Do the Renewable Fuel Standard bill and other green legislation leave you stranded on the edge of your driver’s seat?

Stalking the Weather Report

Stalking the Weather Report

Mar 8

Why do I check the weather three to five times a day? I think it's that weird habit that I go to when I am distracted, or bored, or shifting from one task to the next.

Egg Crisis 2010

Egg Crisis 2010

Mar 3

The situation is nothing to rival the coffee crisis of 2009 or the interoffice email crisis. We lost many good Cubites in the conflicts that ended with the dismantling of the Great Foam Wall.

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Feb 17 | Video

David Ratcliffe, Chairman, President, and CEO of Southern Company, reacts to President Obama's announcement regarding the first federal loan guarantees for new nuclear construction.

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Feb 11 | Video

A Canadian chemical manufacturer will store fifty chlorine-filled rail cars in Washington as a security measure during the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic games.

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Jan 27 | Video

A theoretical bench-top factory that uses nano-sized production lines to sort atoms and fabricate atomically-precise devices.

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Jan 20 | Video

Boeing is racing a hydroplane that uses a 50/50 blend of sustainable biofuel and jet fuel.