Applied Physics

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada, September 9 /PRNewswire/ -- InNexus Biotechnology Inc., (TSX: IXS.V, OTC Bulletin Board: IXSBF, http://www.ixsbio.com), a drug development company commercializing the next generation of monoclonal antibodies based on its Dynamic Cross Linking (DXL(TM)) technology, welcomes David Warden to its Board of Directors. Mr. Warden was a founding partner of Yetter, Warden & Coleman, L.L.P. In his 23 years of practice, he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in cases pertaining to antitrust, securities violations, trade secrets, patents, and other business and…

HEILBRONN, Germany, September 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel(R) (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today a significant enhancement to the ATA2270-EK1 125-kHz RFID demo kit. This kit, which enables the evaluation and prototyping of Atmel's wide portfolio of LF IDIC(R)s, has been upgraded to include a PC-based GUI application to be connected directly to the kit's hardware. This new user interface provides an optimized platform for the evaluation and customization of Atmel's RFID solutions used in access control, industrial automation, loyalty cards, anti-counterfeiting, and animal identification. Configuration…

Anti-virus companies play a losing game. Casting their nets wide, they catch common, malicious viruses and worms (known to the industry as “malware”), but it may take days before their software updates can prepare your computer for the next attack. By then it could be too late. And some insidious programs prove immune to anti-virus software, residing inside your computer for months or even years, collecting personal information and business secrets. But Prof. Avishai Wool and his graduate student Ohad Ben-Cohen of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Engineering are taking a different approach.…

ROUSSET, France, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - AT73C224 Sources 3V to 5V Supplies, Provides Four Regulated Power Supply Channels, Integrates Real Time Clock and Two Wire Interface Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the release of its AT73C224 Analog Companion Power Management Unit designed for a wide range of applications based on 32-bit MCUs. The AT73C224 supplies the required voltages and currents to the main sections of generic 32-bit MCU-based applications including MCU core, memory, I/O, USB host and interfaces. The AT73C224 outputs four power supply channels. For the…

LONDON, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - Acquisition Marks the Launch of a Uniquely Commercial Pioneer in Tidal Current Electricity Generation Atlantis Resources Corporation ("Atlantis" or "the Company"), one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of electricity-generating tidal current turbines, today announces the acquisition of Current Resources Ltd ("Current Resources"), a tidal current energy origination and project development business owned by Morgan Stanley. Following this transaction, Morgan Stanley will be Atlantis' largest shareholder. The combination of Atlantis' highly…

Scientific happenings, big and small, on this day in history First, let’s get started with today’s quiz: What common household item, used in more than 90 percent of American homes, was developed on this day in 1930 by Richard G. Drew? As a little hint, despite its name it did not originate in Scotland. The answer can be found at the end of this article. In the meantime, here are some other significant happenings that have occurred on this day: 1504 Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence In autumn 1504 the citizens of Florence, Italy witnessed an exceptional event. After four days…

If your experiment doesn't go the way you expect, take a closer look; something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory to discover a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant-based oil products. The Brookhaven scientists were trying to understand the factors that affect where carbon-carbon double bonds are placed in fatty acids, the building blocks of oils and fats, when they are "desaturated" -- that is, when a desaturase enzyme removes hydrogen…

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (The IPCC and Al Gore were joint winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize) is calling on individuals to cut their carbon footprints by transforming their diets at a lecture hosted by Compassion in World Farming lecture in London tomorrow (Monday 8 September 2008). Current global animal production is responsible for 18 per cent of all human-induced Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, he says, with more than 60 billion farm animals reared each year. Th IPCC projects that figure will double by 2050. An average household would…

Tom Learner isn’t afraid of taking a scalpel to multi-million dollar Monets or Picassos. But he also knows his way around equipment that sounds pretty high tech: Scanning Electron Microscopes, Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays, and Mass Spectrometers. He knows about Neo-Dada, he digs Degas, and he’s pretty handy when it comes to High Performance Liquid Chromatography. He loves science, but he’s doing it all in the name of art. Dr. Learner is a conservation scientist; as the Senior Scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles, he gets to combine his love for both art and…

WASHINGTON -- A new NASA competition is challenging students in high school and college to research and describe a small, supersonic airliner that could enter commercial service in the next decade. During the upcoming academic year, individuals and teams of high school students will prepare well-documented short papers describing what needs to be accomplished to make supersonic flight available to commercial passengers by 2020. Advanced curriculum high school students and college participants will prepare longer papers that depict a highly efficient, environmentally friendly commercial…