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Thermo Fisher Introduces LDTD Technology in a Strategic Partnership

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces a strategic partnership with Phytronix Technologies, a Canada-based company, for the use of Laser Diode Thermal Desorption (LDTD) technology.

12 Nov 2007

U.S. Army Selects Raytheon for Common Sensor Payload

The U.S. Army has selected Raytheon Company to provide a common sensor payload for manned and unmanned aircraft in a program that could represent more than $1 billion in potential sales.

12 Nov 2007

Alma Lasers Ranked 9th in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award

Alma Lasers Ltd., a global leader in the development and commercialization of innovative aesthetic laser, light-based, and radiofrequency systems, today announced that it has been named Israel's 9th fastest growing company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program. The program is presented by Deloitte Brightman Almagor. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from 2002-2006.

12 Nov 2007

Sterlite Technologies to Double Optical Fiber Manufacturing Capacity

Sterlite Technologies Limited (formerly, Sterlite Optical Technologies Ltd), India s only global provider and integrated manufacturer of optical fiber today announced that it has decided to double its Optical Fiber annual manufacturing capacity to 12 Million-km from its current capacity of 6 Million-Km.

12 Nov 2007

Improved Cornea Surgery Technique Provides Enhanced Transplant Success

In a research presentation today at the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Annual Meeting, Massimo Busin, MD, department head and professor of ophthalmology at the Villa Serena Hospital, Forli, Italy, described a technique that significantly improved results in patients being treated for endothelial disease of the cornea, the transparent covering of the front of the eye that provides much of its optical power.

12 Nov 2007

A Look at the Future of AMD Treatment

Two particularly notable research presentations at the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Annual Meeting described new approaches to the treatment of "wet" Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of severe vision loss in the western world in people over age 50.

12 Nov 2007

Making Laser Surgery Safer for RK Patients

A new study being presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology's 2007 Annual Meeting suggests that the laser surgery can help improve and possibly stabilize the vision of patients who have radial keratomy (RK) while preventing previously common side effects from the surgery.

12 Nov 2007

Survey Finds the Eye Health of Americans at Great Risk

To an almost alarming level, a recent survey(1) finds that individuals remain largely unaware of the dangers that extended exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays can have on their eyes. The survey, conducted by the New England Eye Institute and Transitions Optical, found that while nearly 80 percent of consumers are aware that UV exposure can cause skin cancer, only five percent know it can harm the eyes.

12 Nov 2007

Scientists Help Solve Mystery of Cosmic Rays

The sprawling Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory in South America has produced its first major discovery while still under construction. The international Auger collaboration has traced the rain of high-energy cosmic rays that continually pelts the Earth to the cores of nearby galaxies, which emit prodigious quantities of ener

12 Nov 2007

Researchers Demonstrated World's Smallest Microwave Oven

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world's smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-sized drop of liquid inside a container slightly shorter than an ant and half as wide as a single hair.

12 Nov 2007

New Technique Makes Imaging Individual Atoms 100 Times Faster

Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) -- which can image individual atoms on a surface -- at least 100 times faster.

12 Nov 2007

Laser Marking Fully Compliant with FDA Requirements

DSM said this week that its Micabs laser marking additive is now fully compliant with the food contact requirements of the US FDA and EU framework directive 1935/2004.

12 Nov 2007

Hi-Tech Helmets For Fighter Pilots with X-Ray Vision

Pilots flying the next generation of jet fighters will use futuristic, Star Wars-style helmets, the Ministry of Defence has revealed.

12 Nov 2007

Glaucoma as Manifestation of a Larger Disease

Glaucoma has long been considered a disease of the eye. For most of the 20th century, it was equated with elevated intraocular pressure. Yet, over the past two decades, an increasing number of non-pressure-dependent risk factors have been identified, suggesting that glaucoma can be broadly defined as the final common pathway of a number of different disorders that affect the eye.

12 Nov 2007

First-Ever Success in Peering Closely at Radioactive Decay of Isotope

Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about how nuclei spontaneously eject various particles has continued to nag experimentalists, largely because of an inability to make precise measurements of fleeting, exotic nuclei.

12 Nov 2007