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World crude oil production may peak a decade earlier than predicted

The American Chemical Society has made public a recent study by Kuwaiti scientists in the journal Energy & Fuels that predicts world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014. This is about 10 years earlier than other forecasts, particularly the Hubbert model, which accurately predicted peak production in the U.S. in 1970.

Dassault Systemes and BMW sign agreement for sustainable innovation

Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced that BMW and DS have signed a strategic 5-year global agreement to pave the way to meet the automotive market’s new challenges.

Computational model to identify genetic interactions

To meet the challenge of interpreting cell image data, a team of researchers developed a novel computational model to identify genetic interactions using high-dimensional morphological data. Integrating very basic prerequisite knowledge of a pathway, their model maps potential interactions within a network by looking for similar morphological features upon genetic perturbation.

Manufacturing challenge: Can you stack a better pallet?

Manufacturing challenge: Can you stack a better pallet?

NIST is looking for university teams to automate and improve on one of the common warehouse tasks: pallet-stacking. Using a cheap computer gaming engine, participants will have to develop computer code to deal with a complexity of modern warehousing called mixed palletizing, which is efficient for transporting good, but is tough to automate.

White roofs may successfully cool cities

White roofs may successfully cool cities

Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, a new study indicates. The new NCAR-led research suggests there may be merit to an idea advanced by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu that white roofs can be an important tool to help society adjust to climate change.

Simulation tool could shorten manufacturing design process

Novel research on improving the simulation performance of hardware models created in a language called SystemC, often used to shorten manufacturing design cycles to improve the time it takes to bring a product to the marketplace.  

More than a billion supercomputing hours awarded by DOE

More than a billion supercomputing hours awarded by DOE

The INCITE program is designed to distribute valuable time on America’s most powerful computers to worthy projects. This week, Secretary Chu announced the 69 projects to be awarded 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours. This research includes lithium air batteries, fusion energy, nuclear power, combustion, DNA sequencing and nanostructure superconductors.

Caltech scientists create model of monster 'Frankenstorm'

Could a brutal wintry blast rock the Golden State? In the wake of a recent weeklong storm siege some researchers think so, and have put their computer models to work creating the ideal conditions that could unleash as much as 8 feet of rain over three weeks—reminiscent of the extreme floods of 1861-62.

Street-legal airplane made possible with new rules, new software

Street-legal airplane made possible with new rules, new software

Engineering companies are increasingly leveraging the power of 3D and finite-element modeling. Terrafugia, an aeronautical startup by a group of MIT aeronautical engineers and business grads, recently partnered with design software maker Dassault Systemes to help refine the Transition Roadable Aircraft, an airplane that takes advantage of new FAA rules.

Molecular worm algorithm navigates inside chemical labyrinth

Molecular worm algorithm navigates inside chemical labyrinth

With the passage of a molecule through the labyrinth of a chemical system being so critical to catalysis and other important chemical processes, computer simulations are frequently used to model potential molecule/labyrinth interactions. In the past, such simulations have been expensive and time-consuming to carry out, but now researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that should make future simulations easier and faster to compute, and yield much more accurate results.

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Much ado about next to nothing

Much ado about next to nothing

The recent review of the past 10 years of the National Nanotechnology Initiative--as presented by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology--suggested the rise of nanomanufacturing as the near future of nanotechnology. But the actual proposed funding reflects a cautious approach, even about nanotech in general.

Lunar tires, space MRSA, and resonating microfluidics

Lunar tires, space MRSA, and resonating microfluidics

I typically attend the annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy each year in pursuit of specific coverage. This year, I sought out candidates for coverage in a vacuum technology article, and pulled together some instruments for a spectroscopy guide. But as busy as that kept me, it wasn’t all mass spectrometers and vacuum pumps on the show floor.  

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NuGard Coating Ashburn Hill

NuGard Coating Ashburn Hill

NuGard First Response Protective Clothing are lightweight coveralls, jackets, and pants that provide protection from heat and flame while keeping the wearers body temperature constant.

Multi-Touch Music Maker

Multi-Touch Music Maker

Professor David Wessel shows his multi-touch interface that uses computer technologies that allow him to experiment with fine controls to "caress" the instrument.

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P2i showcases liquid repellent nano-coating for hearing aids
P2i showcases liquid repellent nano-coating for hearing aids

At the AudiologyNOW! 2010 show in San Diego next month, UK-based coatings company P2i will display their relatively new Aridion liquid-repellant nano-coating. Designed for exposure to humidity or sweat, the polymer layer is applied by a pulsed ion gas process that lower’s the hearing aid’s surface energy, coaxing water away from delicate components.

Submersible FlowCAM catches particle images and data in-situ and real-time

Fluid Imaging Technologies recently introduced its Submersible FlowCAM particle and cell imaging and analysis system at Ocean Sciences 2010 in Portland, Ore. The remote sensing platform can be used for continuous, unattended monitoring tethered to research vessels or autonomous submersibles.

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Benchtop NMR analyzer
Benchtop NMR analyzer

Oxford Instruments America, Inc.’s Magnetic Resonance Group released the second generation of its MQC analyzers.

Software solution for microarray image analysis

BioDiscovery Inc. released ImaGene 9.0 for microarray image analysis. The new features include improved memory performance for the latest high density arrays, streamlined processing pipeline focused on image quantification and intensity extraction, and new modular design with options to add modules for analysis of gene/miRNA expression or CGH data.

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