Check ’em out: Global support for nuclear energy drops after Fukushima Quantum behavior with a flash: Pulsed quantum optomechanics Europeans reignite fusion energy project: The test of a new lining…
Read MoreThe GameAuburn at ClemsonSept. 17, 11:00 a.m., CT; Clemson, S.C. When my four sisters and I were young, people often confused us because they thought we looked alike. What dolts,…
Read MoreIt still seems like the Solyndra thing is going to stay messy and politicized. From Bloomberg: Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the findings of a seven-month…
Read MoreBioPontis Alliance’s business model. Credit: BioPontis Alliance. I don’t know how generic the situation is (but I suspect it’s similar in materials fields), but a story in Nature Biotechnology—”New models…
Read MoreCustom-built oxide molecular beam epitaxy system at Yale. Credit: CRISP. The National Science Foundation has awarded a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center grant of $13 million to a Yale…
Read MoreDiscovery’s under wing surfaces were protected by thousands of high-temperature insulation tiles. Credit: NASA; Wikipedia. NASA is jettisoning some stuff they don’t need, now that the Shuttle program has ended,…
Read MoreHere’s what we are hearing: DOE finalizes $150 million loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies to drive down manufacturing costs and make American solar more competitive Materials characterization company Malvern offering…
Read MoreSolydra headquarters. Credit: Solyndra. Hmmm … FBI raids suggest PV company Solyndra had more problems than bad bets on silicon prices and superior installation systems. No one seems to be…
Read MoreInvestigators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created strange optical effects, including corkscrew-like vortex beams, by reflecting light off a flat, nanostructured surface. Credit: Nanfang Yu, SEAS.…
Read MoreSolar power in Germany jumped 76 percent in first six months of 2011. Credit: NREL. According to the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), renewable energy grew—in the first…
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