The integration of special functional elements, for example a beam splitter, directly into the end faces of quartz fibres was so far only possible on the…
The main invention content is the electro chemical process and the respective technical equipment for the determination of the total organic carbon (TOC) in…
Content of the invention is the simultaneous determination of layer thickness and sonic speed in liquid and solid media, without the knowledge of their sonic…
Content of the invention is the non-invasive, reference-free determination of ultrasonic propagation speed in solid bodies, liquids and mixes with point…
The fins are made not of silicon, like conventional transistors, but from a material called indium-gallium-arsenide. Called finFETs, for fin…
Tropical Cyclone (TC) 4A formed yesterday around 4 p.m. ET, 380 miles south-southwest of Mumbai, India, with maximum sustained winds near 37 mph. By 10 a.m. ET…
“Everyone uses surface plasmon resonance sensors. They are a multi billion-dollar industry worldwide,” said Akhlesh Lakhtakia, the Charles Godfrey Binder…
Adam Bogdanove, associate professor in plant pathology, was researching the molecular basis of bacterial diseases of rice when he and Matthew Moscou, a student…
Iverson is an Iowa State University professor of geological and atmospheric sciences. He's worked for three years on his big new machine, which is over nine…
In other words, a biological specimen determined by traditional DNA testing to be 100,000 years old may actually be 200,000 to 600,000 years old, researchers…
Weihong Xu, assistant professor of accounting in the University at Buffalo School of Management, analyzed more than 11,000 firm-quarter observations. She found…
Agricultural soils accumulate trace metals, particularly copper and zinc, as a result of their presence in wastes (sewage biosolids and manures) and fungicides…
“Intermediate-mass black holes contain between 100 and 10,000 times the sun's mass,” explained Tod Strohmayer, an astrophysicist at Goddard. “We observe the…
This afternoon, most of Ida's rains extend to the north and east of her center, over Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina. The Geostationary Operational…
The study confirmed earlier research that put the overall divorce or separation rate among cancer patients at 11.6 percent, similar to the population as a…
On 19 November international researchers and paint manufacturers will gather in Gothenburg to present the latest innovations in the hunt for environmentally…