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Innovation promises expanded roles for microsensors

Feb 14, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers have learned how to improve the performance of sensors that use tiny vibrating microcantilevers to detect chemical and biological agents for applica...

Walker's World: The Falklands again

Feb 13, 2012 (UPI)

Some say it is the new Meryl Streep movie about Margaret Thatcher coming out in time for the 30th anniversary of her splendid little war. Others claim it is the...

Scientists develop MRI for batteries

Feb 13, 2012 (IANS)

Scientists have now unravelled a tool of medical diagnostics to improve a battery's performance and its safe internal workings, a study reveals. Mobile phones, ...

Gulf of Mexico spill: Weatherford says exonerated by court

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

Swiss oil industry subcontractor Weatherford said on Monday that a US court had exonerated it of all charges in connection with the devastating oil spill in the...

Iraq begins pumping oil to new Gulf terminal

Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq began pumping oil on Sunday to the first of five floating terminals in the Gulf in a move that will increase its export capacity by 850,000 barrels per day...

Sudan rebels say six captives are civilian engineers

Feb 11, 2012 (AFP)

Rebels in Sudan are holding captive six Sudanese civilian engineers who worked with a group of Chinese freed by the rebels several days ago, a spokesman for the...

NIST provides octagonal window of opportunity for carbon capture

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Filtering carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive part of many manufacturing processes. However, a collaborativ...

Turkey: Gas flows from Azerbaijan resume

Feb 10, 2012 (UPI)

A technical glitch that all but halted natural gas flows from Azerbaijan and Iran into Turkey this week has been fixed, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz say...

Developing a Potential Low Cost Alternative to Platinum for Splitting Water

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been ...

Electrical engineers build 'no-waste' laser

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a...

Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands

Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)

Argentina on Friday accused Britain of sending nuclear weapons to the disputed Falkland islands, while UN leader Ban Ki-moon appealed to both sides to avoid an ...

Unusual 'collapsing' iron superconductor sets record for its class

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland has found an iron-based superconductor that operates at the...

Engineers Boost Computer Processor Performance By Over 20 Percent

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs)...

New technology platform for molecule-based electronics

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new nano-technology platform for the development of molecule-based elect...

Iran 'steals Iraqi oil to beat sanctions'

Feb 10, 2012 (UPI)

Iran has been systematically plundering large amounts of oil from southern Iraq for years, a theft on a grand scale that's helping the Islamic Republic withstan...

Chevron-Ecuador arbitration panel set: activists

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Chevron and the Ecuadoran government agreed to create an arbitration panel to review a $9.5 billion judgment against the oil giant for damage to the Amazon rain...

Israel boosts naval forces in gas fields

Feb 09, 2012 (UPI)

The Israeli government plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal with a sea-based defense radar system off its Mediterranean coast while forming ...

Scientists 'record' magnetic breakthrough

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of time...

WWF urges banks to block Sakhalin oil plan and save whales

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Environment group WWF on Thursday urged three European banks to block Russian giant Sakhalin Energy's plan to build an oil drilling platform that the group clai...

Materials developed for first optical fibers with high-speed electronic function

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

For the first time, a group of chemists, physicists, and engineers has developed crystalline materials that allow an optical fiber to have integrated, high-spee...