As Dr. Ronaldo Luna, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, watches a machine shake silt from the Mississippi…

As I was sitting patiently in Long Beach waiting to exit the plane and listening to that weird sawing sound that I hear every time I fly on an Airbus A320, I was wondering two things: 1) Why does it…

SOFIA, Bulgaria, August 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Petroleum Exploration Inc. (DPE) has finished the initial phase of the completion of its Deventci R1 gas discovery well in northern Bulgaria.…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 18 /PRNewswire/ -- - Mike Bartlett to Lead Mazu Networks' Aggressive Growth in the Application Performance Management Market for Enterprise IT - Mazu Networks, the…

PARIS, August 18 /PRNewswire/ -- - Deployment Includes CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A Technology and IP Backhaul Solution PARIS, August 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel…

CALGARY, Canada, August 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Expands 2008 Capital Budget and Increases Market Guidance CALGARY, Canada, August 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Orleans Energy Ltd. ("Orleans" or the "Company") (…

In the world of alternative fuels, there may be nothing greener than pond scum. Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so…

As lithographic materials and strategies come close to fundamental technical limits, increase performance and size could become prohibitively expensive. Further advances will require a new approach…

What do a tree and the Eiffel Tower have in common? According to a Duke University engineer, both are optimized for 'flow.' In the case of trees, the flow is of water from the ground throughout the…

A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting edge research is the first step to…