As maddening as it is to see litter and other castoff remains of modern civilization in the wild, certain items can be can be a welcome find in a survival situation. One of the most enduring and useful trash items is the beer bottle, which ...
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In booths 901/903 at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Denver (3-7 March), Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for measurement and control, is to ...
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Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published nine warning letters it issued to food manufacturers and processors at the end of January and the start of February. Orth Farms of Eaton, NY, B & E Dairy of Barstow, CA, and Hillegass ...
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Zimmer Holdings has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued five new patents directed to the Subchondroplasty procedure, the innovative new joint preservation procedure developed by Zimmer Knee Creations: US Patent No. ...
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The UK’s University of Leeds has fabricated what is claimed to be the world’s most powerful terahertz (THz) laser chip, exceeding 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade laser (QCL) (Lianhe Li et al, ‘Terahertz quantum ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue for full-year 2013 of $331.7m, down 36% on 2012's $516m, with all of the firm's businesses experiencing down cycles. LED & ...
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University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds ...
As the plane carrying your correspondent from Hong Kong to Singapore started its descent to the Changi airport, the world's fifth busiest, it started flying circles. Shortly afterwards, the captain explained that multiple aircrafts were on ...
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Catheter Research Inc. Catheter Research, Inc. DBA Thomas Medical, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) is pleased to announce that they recently acquired HAH Medical, Inc. a long-time distributor for Thomas Medical, Inc. (Lone Tree, CO) FOR ...
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DENT Instruments, a global leader in the design and manufacture of power and energy measurement instruments, today announced their Joint Development agreement with Setra Systems, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of sensors and ...
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Brass and bronze are two popular metals those are widely used in across the world in various ways. Basically bronze and brass are both copper alloys but they vary in their composition and thus in their qualities and applications. Brass is ...
The Coatings Research Group, Inc., (CGRI) the international association of 32 paint manufacturers located across 12 countries, has announced that Richard Scott will succeed Dr. Jackie Savoca as the organization’s sixth executive ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has introduced the EPC9013 development ...
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BMW proudly presents the new BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé (combined fuel consumption: 8.1–4.5 l/100 km; combined CO2 emission: 189–119 g/km), the first four-door coupé in the premium midsize class that represents a ...
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