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Transparent Electrodes from Carbon Nanotubes

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics-a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer's electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude, from an insulator to a conductor.

6 Feb 2008

Motorised and Remote Controlled Stereo Microscopes from Nikon Make Life Easier

The new AZ100 Multizoom microscopes from Nikon feature remote controlled operation using either a hand or foot control.

6 Feb 2008

Mars in 3D

Mars is about to come into 3D focus as never before, thanks to the data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). A new high-resolution Digital Terrain Model data set that has just been released onto the Internet, will allow researchers to obtain new information about the Red Planet in 3D.

6 Feb 2008

Two Endoscopes Together is Better Than One

Using two different endoscopes together is better than using one to stage lung cancer, and is also much more precise and less invasive than the surgical method now most commonly used, researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., report in the Feb. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

6 Feb 2008

Anti-Vibration Pads Reduce Noise on Counter Tops

Created by Martinson-Nicholls in conjunction with the 3M Company, the new ViSpa Anti Vibration Pad is specifically designed to control noise and vibration caused by all types of instrumentation operating on counter tops.

5 Feb 2008

New LSI Expects to Contribute to Future 100Gbps Optical Transmission Systems

NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in the development of a new data-recovering large scale integrated circuit (LSI), which will enable substantial improvement in data-receiving performance of 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) and beyond optical fiber transmission systems.

5 Feb 2008

ILT Offers Laser Devices as well as Ongoing Training

Integrated Laser Therapies (ILT) today announced the launch of the company, and the availability of professional-grade therapeutic laser devices and accessories for manual therapists (massage, physical, occupational, and hand therapists, and more) as well as consumer-grade therapeutic laser devices for home use.

5 Feb 2008

Advancing the Use of Light

Light pipes are becoming increasingly popular as a means of homogenizing, conducting and reshaping light for use in a wide range of optical equipment and assemblies.

5 Feb 2008

The Optical Clock

Optical clocks might become the atomic clocks of the future. Their "pendulum", i.e. the regular oscillation process which each clock needs, is an oscillation in the range of the visible light. As its frequency is higher than that of the microwave oscillations of the cesium atomic clocks, physicists expect another increase in the accuracy, stability and reliability.

5 Feb 2008

Thermography Forum Attracted Record Numbers

The 4th Japanese Forum on Thermography, organised by Cedip Infrared Systems, attracted over 70 participants from leading academic institutions and companies from the automotive, electronics, steelworking and photonics sectors.

5 Feb 2008

Yingli Green Energy Reduces Thickness of PV Wafers

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturers, today announced guidance for its 2008 PV module shipments and the achievement of a significant operating milestone.

5 Feb 2008

BioDiscovery Releases Latest Software for Microarray Image Analysis

BioDiscovery Inc., the leading developer of integrated software solutions for microarray based research announced today the release of ImaGene 8.0 for microarray image analysis. The new features include improved auto-gridding, faster processing for highly dense arrays, and support for multi-sample arrays.

5 Feb 2008

Star Instruments and RC Optical Systems Signs Settlement Agreement

Star Instruments, a leading manufacturer of Ritchey-Chrétien optical systems, and RC Optical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes, today announced that Meade Instruments Corporation and its dealers have effectively signed a settlement agreement to rename their RCX400 and LX200R line of telescopes that they claimed contained “Advanced Ritchey-Chrétien” optics.

4 Feb 2008

Revolutionary Cryo-TEM Delivers Fast 3D Information

FEI Company has introduced a revolutionary, high-throughput, cryo transmission electron microscope (TEM) that combines high- throughput sample handling with state-of- the-art electron optics. It provides fast, fully-automated three-dimensional data about biological molecules and macromolecular complexes.

4 Feb 2008

Popping a Spare onto a 3,200-Tonne Radio Telescope

Engineers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire needed more than just a jack and a brace when a steel tyre on the famous Lovell radio telescope cracked.

4 Feb 2008