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A team at Trinity College, Dublin, has developed software codenamed ‘Metakall’, which is designed to provide mobile phone users with low cost calls using public wireless hotspots.

Port Talbot electric vehicle company, Stevens Vehicles, has unveiled Zevan, the first electric commercial vehicle to be made in Wales.

Experts from Malvern Instruments analytical imaging team will present advanced methods and new techniques using near infrared chemical imaging (NIR-CI) at this years Federation of Chemical and Spectro...

ArcelorMittal has acquired a 70% share of Manchester Tubos e Perfilados S.A, the Brazilian steel processor and distributor located in Contagem, Minas Gerais.

This new acquisition will reinforce ...

Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings
down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution
electron
microscopy. This makes it possible to find ou...

Intellection has consolidated its presence in the Indian mining market, with the purchase of a QEMSCAN® automated mineralogy system by the Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT).

T...

The Pirelli Group and CyOptics, Inc. announce the formation of a strategic alliance in integrated photonics.

The combined business will be one of the strongest in the optoelectronics industry, br...

Temple-Inland Inc. announced today that it has acquired the remaining fifty percent interest in Premier Boxboard Limited LLC (PBL) from Caraustar Industries, Inc.

PBL was a joint venture between T...

At this year’s summer Olympics in China, it’s not just the many athletes who need to be in top form.

To qualify to take part in the Olympics, some of the materials incorporated into the stadium...

The aluminium building systems brand Technal has honored some of Spain's most respected and recognized architects for their work on some of the country's most splendid new buildings.

Several hundr...

Rockwood Holdings, Inc. has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Nalco Holdings, Inc., to acquire Nalcos Finishing Technologies business. The purchase price is approximately $75 mi...

Centrica has announced plans to increase its share in Belgian generation and supply company SPE to 51 per cent by buying GDF’s 25.5 per cent shareholding for €515m.

Foster Wheeler Energia in Finland has been awarded a contract by Prokon Nord Energiesysteme for a 26MWe circulating fluidised-bed steam generator to be located in Oostrozebeke, Belgium.

LDK Solar Co., Ltd,
a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that
it has signed a contract to purchase production equipment from China-based JYT
Corporation...

Chirality, or handedness-where an object cannot be superimposed on its mirror
image-is found in many physical systems. In the case of electron spin-the smallest
magnetic field generated by an...

If Bruce Lipshutz has his way, you may soon be buying bottles of water brimming
with the life-sustaining coenzyme CoQ10 at your local Costco.

Lipshutz, a professor of chemistry at UC
Santa...

A delegation of scientists from Russia visited Albany
NanoTech Wednesday, underscoring the high-tech facility's growing presence
on the international stage. The group included Leonid Melamed,...

Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient,
by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current
issue of the journal Science...

Jlich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings
down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron
microscopy. This makes it possible to find ou...

Taking images of ice a few nanometers thick as it forms bulk ice was supposed to
be impossible. A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) shouldn’t work with ice
because STMs create images by relying on...

A type of device called a lab-on-a-chip could bring a new generation
of instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and toxic gases. But
today these portable, efficient tools are often...

Once limited to the electronics industry, semiconductor material may hold
the key to improving early detection of prostate cancer among African-American
men.
Nanotechnology using quantum dot...

Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they
divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal.
Though researchers have developed a...

Although order is pleasing to the eye, it can quickly become boring. In Islamic
architecture therefore, decoration often follows a strict yet aperiodic pattern.
Similar structures also form in...

In 2002, Cannard, a specialised steel construction company based in Montpont en Bresse (France), invested in a Wheelabrator roller conveyor wheel blast machine, type RC1500H, for the treatment of meta...

Evraz Group S.A. today announced that it won the tender to develop the Mezhegey coal deposit in the Republic of Tyva, Russia. Evraz offered US$725 million in the tender held by the Russian State Mine...

Silane (monosilane, SiH4) is a high purity gas and a key material used in the manufacturing of semiconductors, flat panel displays and photovoltaic products. The global market is growing at more than ...

Alcoa announced today that its Materials Management business has named the top ten scrap processors for 2008. Criteria required for top scrap suppliers include quality, volume and performance. Mainta...

United States Steel Corporation held a formal dedication ceremony today for the new Mon Valley Works Training Hub in Duquesne, Pa. The fully renovated, state-of-the-art facility, which is located on ...

The Korean company SKC of Seoul has commissioned in Ulsan the world's first ever commercial-scale plant for production of propylene oxide by the innovative HPPO process. The plant has an annual capaci...