Jul 30 | News
(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) One month a year, the nuclei of lead atoms traveling near the speed of light will collide in the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) ALICE experiment. Ten percent of all of the data collected in this month will travel from Switzerland to NERSC...
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Jul 30 | News
http://www.middlesexwater.com () —Middlesex Water Company (NASDAQ: MSEX) ("Middlesex" or the "Company")
today reported second quarter operating revenues of $26.5 million
compared to $23.1 million for the same period in 2009, an increase of
15.0%. Net income for the quarter rose to $4.4...
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Jul 30 | News
(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) In recent tests evoking visions of the universal translator on "Star Trek," NIST evaluated three two-way, real-time, voice-translation devices designed to improve communications between the US military and non-English speakers...
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Jul 30 | News
(Technische Universitaet Muenchen) Researchers around the world are working on the development of quantum computers that will be vastly superior to present-day computers. Here, the strong coupling of quantum bits with light quanta plays a pivotal role. Professor Rudolf Gross, a...
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Jul 30 | News
(EUREKA) Model-based testing at an industrial scale offers a time-saving and cost-effective approach to software development. Results of a European research project are already enabling a wide arrange of European industries to improve their productivity and global competitiveness.
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Jul 30 | News
(National Science Foundation) A nanomaterial originally developed to fight toxic waste is now helping reduce debilitating fumes in homes with corrosive drywall.
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Jul 29 | News
(Tufts University) Tougher than a bullet-proof vest yet synonymous with beauty and luxury, silks spun by worms and spiders are a masterpiece of nature whose properties have yet to be fully replicated in the laboratory. But scientists have begun to unravel the secrets of silk. Tufts...
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Jul 29 | News
(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) By putting the right kind of strain onto a patch of graphene, Berkeley Lab researchers have created pseudo-magnetic fields far stronger than the strongest magnetic fields ever sustained in a laboratory. This finding opens a new window on...
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Jul 29 | News
(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) The following are story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for August 2010.
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Jul 29 | CHEM Blog
These days, manufacturers have their heads in the cloud because cloud computing promises to drastically improve the ability of companies to drive manufacturing efficiencies.
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