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Take Inexpensive Drug to Protect Kidneys Before CT Scans

As more and more Americans undergo CT scans and other medical imaging scans involving intense X-rays, a new study suggests that many of them should take a pre-scan drug that could protect their kidneys from damage.

18 Feb 2008

Clearing Up Fiber Optic Communications

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the massive amounts of data that travel daily over optical fibers to people throughout the world.

18 Feb 2008

Characterisation of Pharmaceutical Capsules Using Lasers

Scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK have developed an effective laser based method for the characterisation of the bulk chemical content of pharmaceutical capsules - without opening the capsules!

18 Feb 2008

New Imaging Tool Aiming to Expand Markets and Applications

LOT-Oriel Ltd has been appointed as agents for the exciting new imaging system from FEI Company. Named the Phenom, this is completely new imaging tool aimed at a broad range of markets and applications.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 18 Feb 2008

New ISR Systems Structured to Leverage Advanced Technology

Goodrich today formally announced the creation of ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) Systems, a new strategic business unit that encompasses the former Optical & Space Systems electro- optics units.

18 Feb 2008

Advanced Products Enhance Mission Capability for Current and Future Air Systems

Goodrich Corporation has decades of experience in supplying products, services and technology to military forces worldwide.

18 Feb 2008

Laser Technique Help Doctors Screen for Asthma and Cancer

A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, has shown that by sampling a person’s breath with laser light they can detect molecules in the breath that may be markers for diseases like asthma or cancer.

18 Feb 2008

Splitting Water and Producing Hydrogen from Solar Cells

Plants trees and algae do it. Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that can split water and produce recoverable hydrogen.

17 Feb 2008

Making 3D Imaging Quicker, Easier, Less Expensive and More Accurate

Technology invented by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev can make three-dimensional imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate, the researchers said.

17 Feb 2008

Hyundai Selects Firecomms FOT Components for Automotive Infotainment Systems

Firecomms Ltd. today has announced that its Fiber Optic Transceiver (FOT) components have been selected by Hyundai Autonet for use in its Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST®) infotainment networking products. Hyundai Autonet’s products will be installed by car manufacturers, with Kia Motors the first adopter for its Mohave sports utility vehicle.

17 Feb 2008

Solving the Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts

UK space scientist Emeritus Professor Alan Wells is to speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston in February on: International Cooperation in Developing Swift and its Scientific Achievements.

17 Feb 2008

Designing Next Generation Space Telescopes

Two astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Marc Postman and Dr. Ken Sembach, have been selected among 19 science teams to conduct year-long studies of new concepts for NASA's next generation of major observatories.

16 Feb 2008

Laser Sets a World Record

If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory.

16 Feb 2008

Retinal Prosthesis Offers Hope for Treating Blindness

USC and Second Sight Medical Products Inc, leading developers of retinal prostheses for treating blindness, announced today that they have completed enrollment of the first phase of a U.S .FDA approved clinical study of the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System.

16 Feb 2008