University Park PA (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - For the first time, a group of chemists, physicists, and engineers has developed crystalline materials that allow an optical fiber to have integrated, high-speed electronic functions. The potential
York, UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive te
Vienna (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 - Environment group WWF on Thursday urged three European banks to block Russian giant Sakhalin Energy's plan to build an oil drilling platform that the group claims could harm the endangered grey whale.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nodes will aid in that: the network ensur
Varennes, Canada (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - At a news conference in Varennes, the Government of Quebec announced its plan to inject $27 million in Quebec's first full-scale commercial cellulosic ethanol plant through the Ministry of Natural R
Manhattan KS (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - Think of it as cooking with carbon spaghetti: A Kansas State University researcher is developing new ways to create and work with carbon nanotubes - ultrasmall tubes that look like pieces of spaghet
Manchester, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opened a third dimension in graphene resear
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Feb 8, 2012 - Israel is reported to be seeking to deploy fighter aircraft in Cyprus, its partner in developing a natural gas bonanza under the eastern Mediterranean, to protect the vital energy resources.
Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the country's tremendous supply of natural gas buried in shale. He echoed the recommendations for safe extraction m
Brussels (UPI) Feb 8, 2012 - A bit less new European power generating capacity blew in wind's direction last year with 9,616 megawatts installed in 2011, industry backers said this week.
Harrisburg PA (SPX) Feb 08, 2012 - The State Fire Academy is taking its school on the road, beginning with a training course next month on how to respond to ethanol incidents. State Fire Commissioner Ed Mann said the Internatio
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2012 - President Obama's emphasis in last night's State of the Union address on the expansion of clean energy and economic growth is attainable with the help of the one source that literally drives the U.S
London (AFP) Feb 7, 2012 - BP returned to profit with a bang last year, posting net earnings of $23.9 billion on Tuesday, as the British energy giant prepared for a criminal trial over the US Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
London (AFP) Feb 7, 2012 - BP returned to profit with a bang last year, posting net earnings of $23.9 billion on Tuesday as the British energy giant prepares for a criminal trial linked to the US Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
Seattle WA (SPX) Feb 07, 2012 - Stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy. That's the message from two scientists, one from the University of Washington and one
Beijing (UPI) Feb 7, 2012 - China could face power supply outages this year due to a shortage of coal, China's Electricity Council warned.
