Feb
7
More Secure Airbags
February 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Airbags will become more secure. ‘Despite the fact that motorcars of established companies have long ago been equipped with airbags, gas generating compositions in them are still far from perfect, says David Lempert, Ph.D. (Chemistry), one of the development authors. The problem is that the requirements to these compositions are rather firm, multiple and sometimes [...]
Feb
1
First-of-its-kind Spectroscopy System
February 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Spectroscopy for the real world. ‘New system used to analyze environmental, biological phenomena in their natural state. One good thing leads to another. A team of scientists used a first-of-its-kind spectroscopy system at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to obtain the first direct observations of negatively [...]
Jan
30
Web Collaborator
January 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Web Collaborator – A blog+wiki collaborative writing tool.
Jan
27
New Hydrogen Production Models
January 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment
NETL and Carnegie Mellon team up to create new paradigms for hydrogen production. ‘The Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new computational modeling tool that could make the production of hydrogen cheaper as the United States seeks to expand its portfolio of alternative energy supplies. The [...]
Jan
20
Scirus and Google Scholar Comparison
January 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Scirus and Google Scholar head-to-head. [via On Google Scholar]