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The Main Extraction: Helium Production in the US
Oct 14, 2008 — Helium, especially highly purified versions, has been increasingly in demand globally for its usefulness in high tech applications. Here is a brief history of helium production in the US.
Science Policy: Obama vs. McCain
Oct 2, 2008 — Most of my fellow scientists care more for experiments and the life of the mind than political wrangling. However, I urge you to remember that what happens in Washington during this election year will influence whether or not you have the money to...
Fighting crime with mass spectrometry
Oct 1, 2008 — WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – It’s tough to live a life of crime these days. Burglar alarms are fancier, locks have gone biometric, and surveillance cameras get smaller and sneakier all the time. And now, thanks to researchers at Purdue University, the...
Fluorescent Windshield Improves Visibility
Oct 1, 2008 — WARREN, Mich. – Head-up automotive displays are often touted as a great safety feature because they minimize the driver’s need to glance down for information, which helps drivers to keep their eyes on the road. Although monitoring your speed or...
Give Me Some (Photonic) Skin
Oct 1, 2008 — BRUSSELS, Belgium – A unique sensor system that combines optoelectronics and fiber optics in a flexible, stretchable, skinlike polymer film for applications including health care and structural engineering is being developed under the three-year,...
Ice’s Secrets Hold Promise for Green Projects
Oct 1, 2008 — LIVERMORE, Calif. – In a development that could have an impact on two vital areas – water purification and fuel cell design – researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have imaged ice a few nanometers thick as it forms bulk ice, a task heretofore...
Nanowire Arrays Help Make Less Expensive Image Sensors
Oct 1, 2008 — Berkeley, Calif. – Cheap and disposable sensors for use almost anywhere could be within reach, thanks to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who combined nanowire photosensors and...
New global warming element
Oct 1, 2008 — TEMPE, Ariz. – Researchers at Arizona State University have found yet another culprit in the onslaught of global warming – and it’s called brown carbon. Taking brown carbon into account in global circulation models, which previously were based...
NIWeek 2008: Many Cores and Going Green
Oct 1, 2008 — AUSTIN, Texas – It was nothing dramatic, just a guy jogging in place. But thanks to some technical wizardry, that image was superimposed over another in real time on a screen. So it looked as if Tim Dehne, NI vice president, was running down a...
Rounding Out a New Way to Make an Artificial Eye
Oct 1, 2008 — CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has led to a novel technology that not only can make a camera shaped like an eyeball but also...
Former DARPA Manager to Lead R&D at QinetiQ
Sep 3, 2008 — Technology solutions developer QinetiQ North America of McLean, Va., announced that its Technology Solutions Group (TSG) in Waltham, Mass. has appointed Dr. Gregory Duckworth as its first director of advanced research and development. Duckworth...
Detecting Explosives at a Distance with Light
Sep 1, 2008 — By taking advantage of an accidental discovery, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have demonstrated a detector that can spot explosives at distances of more than 20 yards. Possibly useful for uncovering bombs and anything...
Here Comes the Sun
Sep 1, 2008 — The shows ran concurrently and in the same convention center in San Francisco in July. The worst of times are currently found in the traditional semiconductor equipment market. According to projections released by the equipment and materials trade...
Microdisplays: Coming Soon to an Eye Near You?
Sep 1, 2008 — Imagine strolling past a restaurant and having its menu hover translucently in your field of vision, or getting a call from friends and having a GPS-like map appear in front of you as a guide to their exact location. These types of “augmented...
Volcanoes Erupt Under Ice and Water
Sep 1, 2008 — Under the Arctic ice, a group of scientists has made a startling discovery, courtesy of a new camera. Studying an ultraslow-spreading midocean ridge, the team found evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions on the seafloor. Such eruptions were...
Building a Remote Refractive Index Sensor with Quantum Dots
Aug 1, 2008 — Whispering works best if done correctly and up close. That’s one explanation for a new type of remote refractive index sensor developed by a group from Texas A&M University in College Station. The researchers embedded quantum dots into...
Clinical Monitoring of AIDS Drugs
Aug 1, 2008 — Scientists from Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam and from UMC in Nijmegen, both in the Netherlands, have joined forces with researchers from the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK, to develop an effective technique for measuring...
Faster Communications on Existing Infrastructure
Aug 1, 2008 — The 10-Gigabit Ethernet standard is encouraging faster data communications within local area networks, but intermodal dispersion effects limit the data rate on the standard optical fibre infrastructure in offices and factories. Two researchers from...
Flexible Connections for Flexible Solar Cells
Aug 1, 2008 — While today’s solar cells are costly and made out of silicon, tomorrow’s may be made out of plastic and be very inexpensive. However, these polymer solar cells must be flexible. That’s a problem for the device’s cathode and anode. These electrical...
Interpreting Images from Saturn
Aug 1, 2008 — Way beyond Saturn’s main rings lies the narrow, braided multistrand F ring, discovered by Pioneer 11 about 30 years ago. This unique region changes its appearance on a variety of timescales, presenting an interesting puzzle. Now astronomers from the...
Landslide Monitoring
Aug 1, 2008 — Loose sediment, rocks and weathered material usually remain stationary and stable on a slope. However, matter can be disturbed naturally by earthquakes or heavy rainfall, or by human activity such as road construction. When disturbed, the debris is...
Laser Pas de Deux Enhances Resolution in Time and Space
Aug 1, 2008 — To completely grasp the physics underlying such phenomena as cellular function, chemicals changing from one state to another, or the formation of cracks and fissures in polymer thin films, one must watch such events as they occur, as close up as...
Launching Lasers to Mars
Aug 1, 2008 — Scheduled for launch five years from now, the ExoMars spacecraft is designed to study the Martian environment, from the planet’s tectonics to its geochemistry. One of the primary goals, in fact, is to search for signs of past or present life. To...
Measuring Ice Crystals
Aug 1, 2008 — Climate change studies currently are hampered by incomplete knowledge of the radiative behaviour of ice crystals in clouds. The tendency of the crystals to flutter about a horizontal alignment affects their optical properties, and scientists from...
Modelling Photonic Crystal Fibres
Aug 1, 2008 — Physicists from Gdansk University of Technology in Poland and from Aston University in the UK have worked out a new way of modelling photonic crystal fibres with hexagonal cells and large airholes. These small-mode-area fibres have applications in...

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