Speaking of energy innovators, ARPA-E today released more details about its Energy Innovation Summit scheduled for Feb. 28-March 2, 2011 in Washington, DC. Besides those names that were a given…
Read MoreTwo Germany entities, the Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich Company of Hardheim and the European Center for Refractories (ECRef) of Hohr-Grenzhausen have announced the opening of a competition for the Gustav Eirich…
Read MoreI am a week late on getting this news out, so in all likelihood this is old news. Anyway, GE has unveiled the 2011 version of its $200 million Ecomagination…
Read MoreA new story in Science reports that an international team of researchers have been able to turn a non-superconducting form of copper oxide into a superconductor using a strong laser…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Kinect technology looks like a success, and it looks like Apple and other groups close to Apple are going to tease us with rumors about remote gesture controls in…
Read MoreLike materials science? I am assuming you do if you read this blog. So, believe me when I say you should plan on tuning into your local PBS station and…
Read MoreOn the business side of things: H.C. Starck and Cabot announce patent cross-license agreement on tantalum, niobium powder technology Z-Wave makes headway in home energy, via Verizon UltraCell inks deal…
Read MoreTed Day, left, with father Delbert Day. Nice honors for a good guy! The Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla, Mo., announced yesterday that it is naming its new cancer…
Read More(Credit: Jonathan Pankau/Wikimedia Commons.) Last week we had about a report from researchers at Georgia Tech who show how concrete rubble from the earthquake can be safely recycled into stronger…
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