Will Russia Claim the Nanotech Market?

Countries around the world are fighting for a piece of the nanotech pie. Russia could sell as much as $29 billion of nanotech products by 2015, says the chief of a Russian nanotechnology firm. As we head into the next decade, where do you think the center of the nanotechnology market will be?

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CellSlam! The Video!

Imagine science described using only a microphone and hand-held props. There was no Grim Business here — in fact, taking things seriously was against the rules at CellSlam, during the American Society of Cell Biology Meeting in December. Participants had a microphone and exactly three minutes

Old Fashioned Ladder Accidents Still Climbing Today

We live in the age of high tech mechanical and engineering marvels. We have lifts that look and act like spiders. We have backhoe attachments that can mimic the powerful jaws of a T-Rex. We even have remote controlled earth movers. Yet one of the oldest and most basic of construction tools remains n

Commercial Pilot License Course

Which is the best way to complete Commercial Pilot License course when you have managed to complete the first 2 stages, Student's Pilot License (SPL) and Private Pilot License (PPL) from Sydney, Australia. Because of the deteriorating weather and other conditions there, I would prefer to doing it in

Painting Hardness

In a Painting Inspection for a carbon steel pipes with E-poxy Paint, it has been found that the paint although was done before 4days, it is still not hard and still wet and can be crashed with fingers, when the contractor noticed about that , they said it will get dried under the operating temperatu

Online Learning

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Refuse or Resource?

Researchers are creating carbon nanotubes and other useful products from waste plastic bags. Will a shift from refuse to resource improve the plastic grocery bag's bad reputation?

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Working Separately Closer Together

If you believe the trade press, Intel and AMD have patched up their differences. Not everyone agrees that the recent settlement will be the last word on the matter, however. The companies have executed cross-licensing agreements and stopped suing each other, and Intel has agreed on a billion-dollar

Are Electric Vehicles Too Quiet?

The first loudspeakers designed to alert pedestrians of approaching electric vehicles (EVs) are now being produced. What happens if most cars are electric? More noise seems counterproductive - is there a better system?

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Cell Phone Marketing Gone Mad

Success in the cell phone industry is based on continually selling innovative services on the phones, so customers always need a new one. Buyers perceive they are getting new handsets for free — thanks to subsidies that hide the cost of the phone in monthly fees — so they don't value it

Video on the Go

In the next few years, online video content is projected to grow 10x from its current levels. Mobile video viewing is expected to account for the biggest jump by far. Is the idea of watching TV on tiny iPhone or Blackberry screens appealing to you — for engineering business and/or personal use

Is Science Serious Bizness? Is Beauty Truth?

Does public outreach by scientists have to dumb things down? In the case of cable television stations, it certainly seems to. And humor aimed at a science audience can leave the general public confused — or worse, feeling snubbed. But maybe art and comedy are different ways to inspire, if not

No Longer a Dream?

After two years of delay, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner completed its maiden flight in December, but another ten months of testing are still slated. Has the aircraft — which can seat as many as 300 passengers, and is made mostly of lightweight composite materials — lost some of it's initial lu