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3/8/10
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Most polymers—materials made of long, chain-like molecules—are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator.
Mar 3 | News
Like silkworm moths, butterflies, and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, Univ. of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.
Mar 2 | News
Yale Univ. scientists have developed a magnetic solder that can be manipulated in three dimensions and selectively heated, and offers a more environmentally friendly alternative to today’s lead-based solders.
Mar 12 | News
Vale said Friday it plans to increase nickel production at its strike-bound operations in Sudbury, Ont., after workers voted to reject the company's latest contract offer.More than 3,000 production and maintenance workers represented by the United Steelworkers have been on strike for close to...
Mar 12 | News
Specialty phosphates maker Innophos Holdings Inc. said Friday its board of directors declared a 17 cents per share dividend.The dividend will be payable on April 30 to stockholders of record as of April 15.
Mar 12 | News
An Associated Press calculation finds that steel maker Nucor Corp. paid its CEO fell 43 percent last year as it eliminated cash bonuses for executives to help it weather the recession.Chairman, President and CEO Daniel R. DiMicco received 2009 compensation worth $2.88 million. In 2008, he...
Mar 12 | News
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Friday that it was raising its rating on chemical maker Ashland Inc. and its subsidiary Hercules Inc. as the company works to boost results.The new rating of "BB+" is one level below investment grade status. The company's previous rating was "BB." Its...
Mar 12 | News
Huntsman Corp. said Friday it has priced a $350 million private offering of senior subordinated notes. The 10-year notes will carry an interest rate of 8 5/8 percent.The offering total is up from $250 million that Huntsman had cited when it first announced its plans on Wednesday.The notes,...
Mar 12 | News
Kimberly-Clark Corp. CEO Thomas J. Falk's compensation edged up 1 percent last year to nearly $9 million as the maker of Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues improved its profit due to price hikes, according to an Associated Press analysis of regulatory filings.Falk, 51, received more than $2.8...
Mar 12 | News
"With its 135 members all over the world, the OE-A has become a highly dynamic and constantly growing network of leading international companies and institutes in the past five years", said Wolfgang M...
Mar 12 | News
At 1.3 million cubic feet, the Goddard Space Flight Center’s High Bay Clean Room, where the components of the James Webb Space Telescope are now being assembled, circulates a staggering one million cubic feet of air per minutes, ensuring no more than 10,000 particles larger than 0.5 microns. Progress on the telescope can now be viewed by webcam.
Mar 12 | News
After more than a year of bids and counterbids, CF Industries landed Terra Industries on Friday for $4.7 billion, creating a giant fertilizer company.The announcement came just hours after Norway's Yara International said it would not top the latest bid by CF Industries.The deal has been...
Mar 12 | News
An impressive OLED installation by the lighting planners of 'LichtKunstLicht' is the main attraction on the OSRAM stand at the Light + Building show in Frankfurt from 11 to 16 April 2010. Design objec...