The panel of judges for the third Dal-Tile Interior Design Scholarship, presented by the ASID Foundation, have been announced. This year's scholarship competition, titled "Operation Renovation," challenges students to find a residential ...
Tags: Construction
Macy's, Inc. announced that Jeffrey Gennette, who has served for the past five years as Macy's chief merchandising officer, has been elected president of the corporation, effective immediately. He will report to Terry J. Lundgren, Macy's, ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Scania is launching its fourth Australia-wide search to find the country’s best truck and best bus driver, with a prize worth $10,000 on offer for the winner of each category. The judges will be seeking drivers who can display a ...
Australia’s manufacturing industry could be given a welcome boost if it takes advantage of some of the latest research here and overseas to create ultra thin and flexible electronic devices. Just last week, the University of ...
Ryder is introducing female-friendly trucks to its fleet based on recommendations from Women in Trucking (WIT), to encourage more women drivers to join the ranks of fellow truckers. “It’s important for manufacturers to take ...
Tags: Trucks, vehicles, Transportation
Imagine powering your cell phone by simply walking around your office or rubbing it with the palm of your hand. Rather than plugging it into the wall, you become the power source. Researchers at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of ...
The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the ...
Tags: contact lens, light detector, Electronics
These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that emit light with the movement of electrons. As devices get smaller and faster, there is more demand for such semiconductors that are tinier, stronger and more energy efficient. University of ...
Tags: semiconductors, three-dimensional LEDs, two-dimensional materials
A team of MIT researchers has used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light. This proof-of-concept could lead to ultrathin, lightweight, and flexible photovoltaic cells, light emitting ...
Tags: light emitting diodes, tungsten diselenide, new material
Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But you don't use the tiny screen; your phone projects a bright, clear image onto a ...
Packaging and distribution of goods is a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet damage to goods while in transit has a financial impact on companies and consumers, also in the millions of dollars, according to national industry advisory ...
The surface of the sea takes up nitrogen oxides that build up in polluted air at night, new measurements on the coast of southern California have shown. The ocean removes about 15 percent of these chemicals overnight along the coast, a team ...
Tags: Sea Surface, Nitrogen Oxides
Light can trigger coordinated, wavelike motions of atoms in atom-thin layers of crystal, scientists have shown. The waves, called phonon polaritons, are far shorter than light waves and can be "tuned" to particular frequencies and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before ...
Tags: Global Warming, Service
Smart Glass - technology globally popular enough. Such glasses have a number of advantages over conventional windows. "Smart" glass does not transmit infrared radiation, it will delay the heat in the room in winter and not let the hot ...