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4Connections and Partner Installed Fiber Optic Infrastructure for Financial Firm

4Connections, a New Jersey and New York metro lit and dark fiber provider, working with AboveNet, a leading provider of fiber optic connectivity solutions, announced today that it has successfully installed fiber optic infrastructure for an AboveNet enterprise client within one week's time.

19 Nov 2007

Doctored Photos Can Change History

Doctored photos of past public events can influence what people think they remember of the incident, as well as altering their attitudes and any subsequent responses, according to research published today in the journal 'Applied Cognitive Psychology'.

19 Nov 2007

World's Most Powerful Telescope Installed by a Swedish University

Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden is the first institute in that country to have installed an FEI Titan scanning/transmission election microscope (S/TEM), the world's most powerful commercially-available microscope.

19 Nov 2007

Cedip Infrared Releases Powerful Software for Acquisition of IR Images

The latest revision of the ALTAIR software suite from Cedip Infrared Systems, further extends the utility of this popular product to meet the most demanding thermal analysis requirements in scientific, target signature and non-destructive testing applications.

19 Nov 2007

New Way to Manipulate Light a Million Times More Efficiently Than Before

Using a special hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, a team at the University of Bath, UK, has opened the door to what could prove to be a new sub-branch of photonics, the science of light guidance and trapping.

17 Nov 2007

Oosight Imaging Enables Breakthrough in Transfer of Genetic Material

Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi) announced today that their Oosight(TM) Imaging System has been used by Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov to successfully transfer nuclear genetic material from somatic cells from a 10-year-old male macaque to enucleated eggs to generate cloned macaque embryos.

17 Nov 2007

Scientists to Shed Light on Osteoporosis

Ten million people in the United States are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

17 Nov 2007

U.S. Military to Fund Development of Lower-Cost Fiber Optic Gyro-based Northfinder

KVH Industries, Inc., has been awarded a $730,000 Phase II Small Business Innovative Research grant by the U.S. Department of Defense to pursue the development of a fiber optic gyro (FOG)-based northfinding module potentially much smaller and lighter than systems currently available.

16 Nov 2007

Osram Sylvania Announced Distribution Agreement to Drive Adoption of LED Lighting

OSRAM SYLVANIA, a leading innovator of LED systems and technologies, today announced a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc., a provider of electronic components and computer products. The agreement is intended to help drive the adoption of LED lighting technology by manufacturers across several industries. With its broad sales network and established customer base, Arrow will serve as an important channel partner for the growing OEM business at OSRAM SYLVANIA.

16 Nov 2007

New Technique to Slow Down, Stop and Capture Light

Professor Ortwin Hess, his PhD student Kosmas Tsakmakidis of the Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics at the University of Surrey and Professor Alan Boardman from Salford University have revealed a technique which may be able to slow down, stop and capture light.

15 Nov 2007

Breakthrough in Making Spins in Quantum Dots Identical

Scientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum information processing, as a result of a breakthrough in understanding how to make all the spins in an ensemble of quantum dots identical.

15 Nov 2007

Easier to Walk in the Right Direction with Optic Flow

The motion we perceive with our eyes plays a critical role in guiding our feet as we move through the world, Brown University research shows.

15 Nov 2007

Team Effort Makes Inovateus Front Runner in Region for Large Solar Integration

Inovateus Development of South Bend, Indiana has teamed up with 1 Star Energy, one of North America's leading commercial/industrial integrators of solar electrical systems with offices in Texas, California, Florida, Indiana, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Inovateus has offices in Chicago, Illinois and St. Joseph, Michigan, where the company develops energy efficient housing. This team effort makes Inovateus the front runner in the region for large commercial and industrial solar integration.

15 Nov 2007

MedicalCV Announced Completion of 75th Case Utilizing Laser-Based Surgical Ablation Systems

MedicalCV, Inc., announced today the completion of the 75th surgical case utilizing its laser-based technology platform, which includes both the ATRILAZE and SOLAR Surgical Ablation Systems.

15 Nov 2007

HMI Delivered to NASA's Goddard Spacecraft Center for Solar Dynamics Observatory

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), an instrument for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), has been delivered to NASA's Goddard Spacecraft Center for integration on SDO, which is scheduled to launch in December 2008.

15 Nov 2007