Improved lubrication from polymers and water, not oil

May 8 | News

Mineral oil is typically used as a cooling lubricant for machining hard metals and for tool-making machinery on which tools are manufactured, but engineers are now offering an alternative to fossil fuel-based oils that often transport very little heat. The new aqueous biopolymer solutions are actually based on water, which is no worse a lubricant than oil if the right additives are used.

FEI launches flagship Helios NanoLab x50 DualBeam

4/26/2010 | New To Market

Designed for failure analysis, 3-D nanoscale characterization and prototyping, and other techniques, the Helios NanoLab series is available in versions for semiconductor labs that are dealing with advanced packaging techniques, and for academic and industrial R&D centers that need materials characterization down to the single nanometer scale.

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R&D 100: Now and Then

Apr 16

As R&D Magazine prepares for the 50th annual R&D 100 Awards, the editors take a stroll through the awards history, and invite former winners to join them.

R&D 100 Awards: Final Deadline is April 30

Apr 3

The editors of R&D Magazine have extended the submission deadline for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards to April 30, 2012, at 11:59 pm, eastern U.S. time. This is the FINAL DEADLINE. We cannot accept entries after that time.

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CC Radio - Episode 99

May 23

NIH bikes to work. For transcripts of this and other NIH Clinical Center podcasts, visit http://www.cc.nih.gov/podcast/

Blueshift - May 21, 2012: Astrophysicist to the Stars, Dr. David Saltzberg

May 21

In a follow-up to our previous interviews with co-creator of "The Big Bang Theory," Bill Prady, we interviewed Dr. David Saltzberg, the show's resident astrophysicist and science consultant. Find out more about his research, adventures in astrophysics, and how he keeps the science of the...