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Mar 9 | News
Honeywell announced that it has signed a global five-year agreement to be a Main Automation Contractor (MAC) for Shell.
Feb 18 | Featured Articles
One truly benign way of cutting costs is reducing the tax burden. In industries from chemicals to software, from agriculture to fashion, and at every level, taking full advantage of a tax credit provided by the federal and many state governments to encourage innovation and competitiveness—the R&D tax credit—enables companies to achieve remarkable tax savings.
Feb 17 | News
A new nanotech catalyst developed by McGill Univ. chemists offers industry an opportunity to reduce the use of expensive and toxic heavy metals. Although chemists have long been aware of the ecological and economic impact of traditional chemical catalysts and do attempt to reuse their materials, it is generally difficult to separate the catalyzing chemicals from the finished product. The team's discovery does away with this chemical process altogether.
Feb 16 | Featured Articles
Whatever the industry, researchers and scientist are likely to be using analytical instruments such as sensors, meters, analyzers, spectrometers, and more in their daily work. The questions then, are how efficient, how cost-effective, and how easy to use are the analytical tools currently on the market.
Feb 16 | News
By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a highly sensitive chemical and biological sensor.
Jan 12 | News
Northwestern Univ. researchers have developed compact, mid-infrared laser diodes that generate more light than heat—a breakthroughs in quantum cascade laser efficiency. The results are an important step toward use of quantum cascade lasers in a variety of applications, including remote sensing of hazardous chemicals.
12/21/2009 | Featured Articles
While some companies make the decision to take floor-standing instruments down to the benchtop, other companies market their analytical products for the benchtop initially. One such company is Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. Benefiting the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, environmental, biochemistry, and polymer industries, the new UV-1800 is part of Shimadzu’s natural progression of spectrophotometers.
12/21/2009 | Featured Articles
Small, fast, and cost effective–those are the three words that most scientific laboratories look for in their analytical equipment. However, full-size laboratory equipment may seem like the only option for laboratories looking for highly accurate and high resolution analytical tools.
12/14/2009 | RDBlog
I always thought of bacteria as being intrusive. The same goes for fungi. It seemed more of something that would infect the body instead of helping the body, or any field of science. It was why I wore shower shoes in college. However, the more I read on bacteria and fungi, the more I started to see the benefits that these micro-organisms have toward science.
12/14/2009 | News
Ethanol, often promoted as a clean-burning, renewable fuel that could help wean the nation from oil, would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, compared with gasoline, especially in winter, according to a new study led by Stanford researchers.