Industry News
Researchers honored by the American Cleaning Institute® (ACI, formerly The Soap and Detergent Association) have identified a group of surfactants that are highly effective in acid cleaning formulations in preventing the corrosion of steel surfaces.
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Liquid crystals, the state of matter that makes possible the flat screen technology now commonly used in televisions and computers, may have some new technological tricks in store.
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How antiquated is our nation’s electric grid? It is so backward and inflexible that in order to integrate more sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, the current grid requires that we build more power plants.
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After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals one of the studies was finally and fully published today (May 3, 2012) in the journal Nature
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Boise State University and the Micron Foundation have teamed up to entice Idaho’s brightest science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students into the state’s classrooms as a new generation of teachers who excel in technical subjects.
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Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation. Now a scientist at Michigan Technological University has developed a simple, cheap way to make water safe to drink, even if it’s muddy.
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Ask Texas A&M University chemist Dr. Hong-Cai "Joe" Zhou to describe his research in simple terms, and more often than not, he'll draw on a favorite analogy from childhood: playing with LEGOs.
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Among terrorism scenarios that raise the most concern are attacks involving nuclear devices or materials. For that reason, technology that can effectively detect smuggled radioactive materials is considered vital to U.S. security.
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The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is now accepting abstract submissions for podium and poster presentations at SLAS2013.
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AAAS joined a bipartisan team of U.S. lawmakers and a broad-based coalition of science, business and education leaders in announcing a new award program that will celebrate the value of basic scientific research.
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