Awards Give Boost to UK Physics Research
Dec. 29, 2006
Seven Science and Innovation Awards totaling more than £12 million ($23 million) include funding to...
Telecom in Asia Slowly Recovering After Quakes
Dec. 28, 2006
Asia's telecommunications system is slowly recovering after Tuesday's powerful earthquakes and...
Study: Nanomaterials Could Disperse into Environment
Dec. 28, 2006
Experiments show that a nanomaterial promising for industrial uses also has significant potential...
Light Fields Mapped Microscopically
Dec. 28, 2006
Researchers at Seoul National University said they have, for the first time, mapped the orientation...
SwRI Device Named Engineering Landmark
Dec. 28, 2006
A device developed by engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in 1962 that characterizes...
'Vortex Lattices' May Help Explain Material Defects
Dec. 27, 2006
By superimposing a rotating pattern of intersecting laser beams on a spinning cloud of ultracold...
Lasers Reveal Strange Properties of Superfluids
Dec. 27, 2006
Electrical engineers are using lasers to shed light on the behavior of superfluids -- strange,...
Light Buffered on a Chip
Dec. 27, 2006
IBM announced its researchers have built a device capable of delaying, or "buffering," the flow of...
Breakthrough Could Lead to 'Invisible' Electronics
Dec. 27, 2006
Imagine a car windshield that displays a map to your destination, military goggles with targets and...
Rare Glimpses of Light Recorded From Neutrons
Dec. 22, 2006
A team of researchers have made the first experimental observation of rare particles of light...
Nanotube Coatings Relieve Driver Frustration
Dec. 22, 2006
An electrically conductive coating that uses nanotechnology to heat a car's windshield -- but has...
PerkinElmer Acquiring Euroscreen Products
Dec. 21, 2006
Health sciences company PerkinElmer Inc. announced today it will acquire Euroscreen SA’s majority...
Siemens Claims Speed Record
Dec. 21, 2006
Siemens announced yesterday that its researchers set a record for the electric transmission of data...
Ericsson to Buy Redback Networks for $2B
Dec. 20, 2006
Redback Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif., developer of edge-routing technology for broadband...
Magnetic Polymers May Advance Spintronics
Dec. 20, 2006
Researchers have pioneered a new approach for making magnetic polymers that are held together with...
NEMS/MEMS Research Center Gets $2M in Funding
Dec. 20, 2006
A new, three-year, multi-institution nano- and microelectromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS) research...
Agilent Buys GE Chemiluminescence Line
Dec. 20, 2006
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced today it has acquired the chemiluminescence product line --...
ASML Acquiring Brion Technologies for $270M
Dec. 19, 2006
Semiconductor scanner manufacturer ASML Holding NV announced today it will acquire privately held...
Keck Observatory Awarded $2M to Improve Interferometer
Dec. 19, 2006
The National Science Foundation has awarded the W. M. Keck Observatory $2 million to improve the...
Telescope Observes 1st Objects in Universe
Dec. 19, 2006
New observations from NASA's Spitzer space telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected...
Taking Nanolithography Beyond Semiconductors
Dec. 18, 2006
A chemical patterning process combines molecular self-assembly with traditional lithography to...
Cisco to Acquire Tivella
Dec. 18, 2006
Cisco Systems Inc., a San Jose-based developer of Internet protocol (IP)-based networking...
High Silver Costs Trigger Another Kodak Price Hike
Dec. 18, 2006
Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Group today announced price increases worldwide on all its medical...
Team Detects Top Quark
Dec. 15, 2006
A group of 50 international physicists has detected the subatomic particle the top quark, for the...
Daktronics to Buy Artesyn Plant and Hire Workers
Dec. 15, 2006
South Dakota-based Daktronics Inc. recently a major expansion that involves hiring some former...
Alfred University Engineering School Receives $5M
Dec. 15, 2006
The state has allocated $5 million through the New York State Construction Fund for the Kazuo...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Cohesive Tech
Dec. 15, 2006
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a maker of laboratory equipment and scientific instruments, today...
StockerYale to Invest More in Specialty Fiber
Dec. 14, 2006
StockerYale Inc., a provider of photonic-based products, announced today it will increase its...
OIDA: Energy, Industrial Laser Markets Most Promising
Dec. 14, 2006
2006 has been a good year for the optoelectronics industry, with most markets showing double-digit...
Leibniz Winners Named
Dec. 14, 2006
A theoretical physicist, a materials science expert and an astrophysicist will each receive 2.5...
Canada Boosts McMaster Microlab Device Research
Dec. 13, 2006
Like miniature labs, the microtechnology and nanotechnology-based biosensors and imaging devices...
IPG Photonics Raises $148.5M in Market Debut
Dec. 13, 2006
An initial public offering from IPG Photonics Corp., an Oxford, Mass., maker of fiber lasers and...
New Technique Brings Flexible Electronics Closer to Reality
Dec. 13, 2006
Researchers have devised a method for printing patterns of high-performance organic single-crystal...
Butterfly Wing is Template for Photonic Structures
Dec. 12, 2006
By replicating the complex micron- and nanometer-scale photonic structures that help give butterfly...
ESO Approves 'Extremely Large Telescope' Study
Dec. 12, 2006
The ESO Council, the governing body of the Garching-based European Southern Observatory (ESO), has...
Mechanical Motion 'Spins' Atoms in a Gas
Dec. 11, 2006
For the first time, scientists have used mechanical motion to make atoms in a gas "spin." The...
Laser Maker Acquires Rival
Dec. 11, 2006
NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH announced it has acquired Zia Laser Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M., for an...
LG.Philips 'Cooperating' With Fair-Trade Investigation
Dec. 11, 2006
LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd., a maker of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD)...
Superstable Glass May Aid Drug Delivery
Dec. 8, 2006
A new method has been developed for crafting some of the most stable glasses ever formed, materials...
Oerlikon Acquires Assets of UK Laser Maker Exitech
Dec. 8, 2006
OC Oerlikon Corp. Ltd. announced it has acquired the laser technology, staff and equipment of nano-...
Supercomputing Equipment to Advance Computational Biology
Dec. 8, 2006
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute said they will continue to advance the frontiers of...
‘Tabletop’ Particle Accelerator Built
Dec. 8, 2006
A team of French researchers said they have developed a compact laser-plasma accelerator that uses...
Laser Pulses Help DNA 'Express' Itself
Dec. 7, 2006
For the first time, scientists have applied a laser pulse to heat up a protein-DNA complex, and...
Saudi Arabia to Build Separate Women's Science Center
Dec. 7, 2006
Saudi Arabia is opening a women's education center in Riyadh for nanotechnology, biotechnology and...
Nanotech Benefits Outweigh Risks for Consumers
Dec. 7, 2006
US consumers are willing to use specific nano-containing products -- even if there are health and...
Nanomotor Assessed for Treating AIDS, Cancer
Dec. 6, 2006
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a multidisciplinary team $7 million over five...
Waves in Ultrashort Laser Pulses Measured, Controlled
Dec. 6, 2006
A technique has been perfected for very accurately measuring and controlling the electromagnetic...
European Commission to Establish Photonics Unit
Dec. 5, 2006
The European Commission (EC) plans to create a unit dedicated to photonics and to increase funding...
High-Res Scan Reveals Cartilage in 3-D
Dec. 5, 2006
By combining two existing technologies, researchers have created a new noninvasive, high-resolution...
Agilent Acquires PXIT Assets
Dec. 5, 2006
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced on Nov. 30 it will buy assets of the optical transceiver test...
Era of High-Speed Optical Computing Approaching
Dec. 5, 2006
Physicists have discovered a way to manipulate the transmission of optical signals in tiny wires,...
Semicon Japan Marks 30 Years
Dec. 5, 2006
"Sharing Expertise, Making Innovation" is the theme for Semicon Japan 2006, the world’s largest...
Iridex Buying Laserscope Aesthetics Unit
Dec. 4, 2006
Therapeutic-based laser systems maker Iridex Corp. announced that it will acquire the laser...
New Lens Produces Distortion-Free Wide-Angle Pictures
Dec. 4, 2006
South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light...
Atoms 'Herded' into Pens
Dec. 4, 2006
It has long been known that it is possible to confine electrons or atoms in atomic structures in...
Particle Physics Pioneer Dies
Dec. 4, 2006
Particle physics pioneer Bernard Gittelman, 74, Cornell University professor emeritus of physics,...
Optical Atomic Clock Has Most Precise 'Ticks' Ever
Dec. 1, 2006
Using an ultrastable laser to manipulate strontium atoms trapped in a "lattice" of light,...
PerkinElmer Acquiring German Company for $30M
Dec. 1, 2006
Health sciences company PerkinElmer Inc. today announced it is acquiring Evotec Technologies GmbH...
Bruker Awards Scholarships at MRS Meeting
Dec. 1, 2006
Hsiu-Wen Wang, a geological sciences graduate student at Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, and...