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New Technology Development Could Lead to Better Use of Solar Power

New technology in development at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science could lead to more successful hip and bone replacement surgeries, make better use of solar power and even prevent your computer from overheating.

20 Oct 2007

8-Year-Old Ultraviolet Light-Detecting Space Telescope to Shut Down

Having coaxed all the life they can out of an 8-year-old ultraviolet light-detecting space telescope, scientists will reluctantly turn it off later this month.

19 Oct 2007

Enova Medical Developed New Cordless LED Surgical Headlights That Exceeds 200,000 lux

Enova Medical Technologies announced today that it has developed new LED technology for cordless surgical headlights that, for the first time ever, reaches light output levels exceeding 200,000 lux at 14 inches.

19 Oct 2007

Scientists Have taken Important Step in Developing Lunar Telescope

Scientists from the University of Leicester have taken an important first step in developing an innovative telescope which could one day be deployed on the Moon.

19 Oct 2007

Alcatel-Lucent Announced 1626 LM Fully Tunable and Reconfigurable

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it has set a new standard with its 1626 Light Manager (LM) product. Release 5 1626 LM addresses operators' demand for increased capacity, flexibility, and manageability to support a faster time-to-market for a new breed of blended Internet, video, and triple-play services.

19 Oct 2007

Northrop Grumman Begins Assembling Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser Aircraft

Northrop Grumman Corporation, along with industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), have begun re-assembly of the world's most powerful laser built for an airborne environment onto MDA's Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft to prepare for high-power system testing.

19 Oct 2007

GCI Signs Southeast Fiber Equipment Contract

GCI officials announced today that NEC Corporation (NEC) has been awarded a contract to supply the submarine cable, amplifiers and line terminal equipment for the Southeast submarine fiber optics project.

19 Oct 2007

Energy Photovoltaics Announced Series of Organizational Changes

Energy Photovoltaics, Inc. (EPV), a thin-film photovoltaic module manufacturer with headquarters in New Jersey, USA, announced today a series of organizational and senior staff changes that reflect the new direction of the company. Approved by its Board of Directors and shareholders, Energy Photovoltaics, Inc., will now operate as EPV SOLAR, Inc., effective immediately.

19 Oct 2007

Physicists Have Built a Tool That Studies How the Eye Processes the Busy World

Physicists from the University of California-Santa Cruz have built a tool that studies how the eye processes the busy world around it, transforming the chaos of incoming light into elegantly moving images.

19 Oct 2007

Lithuania Telecommunication Services Provider Completed Installation of Fiber Optic Network

TEO LT AB Lithuania's incumbent integrated telecommunication, IT, and TV services provider, says it has completed the installation of a "new-generation network" that will enable it to provide higher quality services to customers.

19 Oct 2007

Polymer Incorporated into Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Increases Light Emission

Organic based solution processable devices are promising to revolutionise the lighting and photovoltaic industries of the future. The move away from traditional inorganic materials is driven not only by cost considerations, but also sustainability issues and life-cycle costs. However, current organic device efficiencies and lifetimes are not high enough for many applications.

18 Oct 2007

UV Light Could Prevent Waterborne Disease Outbreaks

A major public health issue and economic problem has been addressed in experiments carried out by researchers from the University Denis Diderot in Paris, and the VEOLIA Research Center in Maisons-Laffitte (France).

18 Oct 2007

BTI Photonic Changing Name and Plans to Open a New Design Centre

BTI Photonic Systems is changing its name to BTI Systems and has plans to open a new design centre in Marlborough, Mass.

18 Oct 2007

New Way of Laser Marking Substrates by Laser Energetics

Laser Energetics, Inc. announces that it has invented a new laser process which encompasses a new way of laser marking substrates (pills, gum, batteries, etc.) of most any type, through its plastic container, or packaging. The Company has filed a patent application in the U.S.

18 Oct 2007

New Approaches to Diagnosing and Treating Coronary Artery Disease

Prescient Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company dedicated to reducing deaths from heart attacks, has unveiled a unique, new catheter-based diagnostic tool, the vPredict(TM) Optical Catheter System, and a new treatment, the vProtect(TM) Luminal Shield, for use in the cardiac catheterization lab.

18 Oct 2007