State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec Corp, posted modest gains in its 2013 upstream and downstream oil and gas production and has pledged to reduce its capital expenditure this year. In its annual financial results ...
Tags: Sinopec, Oil, Gas Output, Chemicals
MEI Wet Processing Systems and Services (a subsidiary of MEI LLC) of Albany, OR, USA has launched the FluidJet batch wet processing system for metal lift-off in MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) and compound semiconductor manufacturing, ...
Tags: metal lift-off system, semiconductor, metal
China's refinery crude throughput over January and February dipped 1% year on year to 78.78 million mt, or an average of 9.79 million b/d, according to preliminary data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday. ...
Spanish LNG throughput dropped 26.2% year on year in the week ending March 9 weighed by a drop to zero at the Sagunto terminal, data published Monday by Spanish gas grid operator Enagas showed. Combined throughput from Spain's six LNG ...
Tags: LNG throughput, national gas
Furukawa Electric Co Ltd of Tokyo, Japan has developed a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that operates at 25Gbps and has realized transmission of up to 500m over prototype multimode fibers developed by optical fiber product ...
Tags: optical fiber product, cloud computing, Increasing the VCSEL wavelength
A team of French investigators has discovered viruses containing genes for antibiotic resistance in a fossilized fecal sample from 14th century Belgium, long before antibiotics were used in medicine. They publish their findings ahead of ...
Despite skepticism in the chip industry that Moore’s Law could be reaching its limits, MIT Researchers believe that they have found a way to enable semiconductor manufacturers to continue shrinking geometries below 20 nanometer and ...
Tags: Moore's Law, MIT Research
The front-month Brent-WTI spread settled at a fresh five-month low of $6.48/barrel Friday, as steady drawdowns in crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub have lent upside support to WTI, while Brent remains subdued. NYMEX ...
Tags: crude, Brent futures
A new study describes the complexity of the new T cell repertoire following immune-depleting therapy to treat multiple sclerosis, improving our understanding of immune tolerance and clinical outcomes. In the Immune Tolerance Network's ...
Tags: Immune System Reconstitutes Itself, Immune-Depleting Therapy
NextG-Com, an expert in embedded software products and services for LTE, M2M and satellite communications, has announced the availability of the first LTE protocol stack specifically designed and developed to meet the needs of the ...
Tags: Nextg-COM, LTE Protocol Stack, machine-to-machine communications(M2M)
At the 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain (24-27 February), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has announced the addition of multiple new products to its expanding portfolio of antenna control solutions ...
Tags: RFMD, Smartphones, Tablets
At the 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain (24-27 February), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has announced that multiple upcoming 4G reference designs and 4G smartphones will feature its envelope tracking ...
Tags: 4G Smartphones, RFMD
A biologist at the University of York is part of an international team which has shown that advanced DNA sequencing technologies can be used to accurately measure the levels of inbreeding in wild animal populations. The research by senior ...
Tags: DNA Advance, Dutch beach, PNAS, animal population
Semiconductor maker Entropic has teamed with Netgear to introduce what they call "the first MoCA 2.0 certified product on the market" – the Netgear WM2500RP MoCA-to-Wi-Fi extender. Available now through service providers, the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
(Phys.org) —From steel beams to plastic Lego bricks, building blocks come in many materials and all sizes. Today, science has opened the way to manufacturing at the nanoscale with biological materials. Potential applications range ...
Tags: Crystalline Structure, DNA, NSLS, virus