Tandem Trading is pleased to announce that from May 2016 we will have NATURAL DRIED TURKISH FIGS for sale. Available in full pallet lots ie 50ctns x 10kg/pallet. This product is 100 % dried figs. Processing factory is fully certified : ...
Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
The US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Tennessee, has improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride ...
Tags: Solar Cells, vacuum-seal
West coast Indian miner Fomento Resources has offered a cargo of 57%-Fe iron ore fines material through a spot tender Thursday, making this the first iron ore shipment the miner will send out of Goa after the state's mining bans were ...
Tags: Fomento Resources, seaborne prices, Iron Ore
US based True Dairy Flavors, a division of Midpoint Enterprises, has released six new flavoured milks. The new "taste-tempting flavors", as the company says, includes True Grape, True Black Cherry, True Orange Dreamsicle, True Banana ...
One of the oldest ways to fertilise crops was “slash and burn” agriculture, where tropical forests are intentionally levelled and burned to create open space and nutrients for crops. In the US, this month’s innovation ...
Tags: Low Cost Fertiliser, Fertiliser
McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical
The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
Tags: LED Lighting, diode applications, Electrical
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of Arkansas announced that the city of Fort Smith, Ark. will upgrade its sewer collection and treatment system over the next 12 years to reduce ...
Tags: Sewer System, Local Waterways, Agriculture
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy today joined U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary (USDA) Tom Vilsack, Mike Boots of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Commonwealth of Virginia ...
Tags: Water Quality, Agriculture
BOSTON – In two separate grants, EPA is awarding $120,000 to two organizations working to clean up the Mystic River Watershed, just outside Boston, Mass. The two Mystic River Watershed grants are part of $2.1 million EPA awarded ...
Tags: EPA, Mystic River Watershed, Service, Certification
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the pollution budget developed by Maryland to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus in Maryland’s coastal bays and tributaries to levels that meet water quality standards. The budget ...
Tags: EPA, Pollution Budget, Office Supplies
Before seeding alfalfa into ground previously row-cropped, test soil acidity and adjust lime rates as needed, recommends Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska Extension forage specialist. If you’re seeding new alfalfa this spring ...
MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex. More work is needed to understand and optimize the reaction, but one day this approach could offer an ...
The evolution of the first animals may have oxygenated the earth's oceans – contrary to the traditional view that a rise in oxygen triggered their development. New research led by the University of Exeter contests the long held ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics