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January 24, 2008
The wraps come off X Prize winner's successor
The 100% composite passenger spacecraft SpaceShipTwo was revealed in New York this week. Developer Burt Rutan says test flights will take place later this year with regular passenger service commencing in 2009 or 2010. Continue...
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Laser Confocal Microscope Revolutionizes Surface/Shape Analysis
The KEYENCE VK-9700 Laser Confocal Microscope provides SEM resolution in an optical microscope system. With 18,000x magnification and 0.001 microm measurement precision, the new VK-9700 offers high-accuracy, 3D imaging and superior color performance with operational simplicity. Users can perform a variety of non-contact 3D measurements including surface profile, roughness, 3D and comparative measurements. New technology combines real color with a high definition, ultra-depth examination system. Full details in a comprehensive, illustrated catalog. For more information, click here. |
UN highly critical of biofuel
As farmers worldwide seek to cash in on a new age of biofuel, the UN says food crops are being diverted or removed altogether. The UN warns against a "flash point" in bioenergy development. Continue...
Quantum dots forced to stop problematic blinking
Described as a sort of "nervous tic", the inconsistent photon pattern from quantum dots makes them hard to use. By inducing faster emission, NIST researchers have made the dots more valuable as fluorescent tags and photon sources. Continue...
Crime-scene microchip is a miniature evidence machine
Polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) can turn minute traces of DNA into billions of copies. But existing machines are huge compared to what Hong Kong researchers are calling the first-ever portable PCR platform. Continue...
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Innovation, Product Development and Commercialization
"...presents a holistic framework for the development of high-technology products. It is a book to which every serious student and practitioner of product development should read."
-Robert Carlson, Professor, MS&E Department, Stanford University.
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Synthetic aperture radar tracks a complex ocean
Nobody really knows how surface ocean currents affect climate. By finding a way to interpret the Doppler shift of electromagnetic waves reflected from the water's surface, scientists now have a clearer picture. Continue...
NIH to invest $190 million in epigenomics
Put simply, epigenomics is about turning genes on and off. This biomedical research field is still in development, but that hasn't stopped a major commitment from federal coffers. Continue...
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Hyper Rapid laser designed for industrial micromachining
RPMC's new picosecond cold processing laser features up to 50W average power and pulse repetition rates of up to 1 MHz. The throughput increase is by more than a factor of 10 over previous models, enabling cold abatement of more than 10 mm3 of material per minute. Available wattage: 2.5 W, 10 W, 25 W, 50 W. Continue...
Adaptive optics toolkit offers turnkey solution
Thorlabs Inc. and Boston Micromachines Corp. have developed an affordable, fast solution for researchers requiring the use of adaptive optics. The toolkit includes Thorlabs' WFS150C Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, BMC's 140-actuator Multi-DM deformable mirror system, and software designed to minimize wavefront distortion. Continue... |
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