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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Faced with low-cost competition from Indian and Chinese newcomers, established contract research firms elsewhere reach for the scientific high ground EARLIER THIS MONTH, Sharon E. Tetlow, a senior vice president and the chief financial officer of the San Francisco-based biotech firm Cell Genesys , went to Shanghai for the first time. Cell Genesys already conducts research programs with contractors based in Europe and recently started working closely with a research partner in China. ....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 28 November, 2007 12:04 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Scientists at the University of Virginia have discovered a new class of hydrogen storage materials that could make the storage and transportation of energy much more efficient — and affordable — through higher-performing hydrogen fuel cells. Bellave S. Shivaram and Adam B. Phillips, the U.Va. physicists who invented the new materials, will present their finding at the International Symposium on Materials Issues in a Hydrogen Economy at the Omni Hotel in Richmond, Va. ....click the link to read more
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Sunday 25 November, 2007 06:14 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used a uniquely-constructed perforated diamond cell to investigate oxide glass structures at high pressures in unprecedented detail. Argonne physicist Chris Benmore and postdoctoral appointee Qiang Mei, along with colleagues at the University of Arizona, used microscopic laser-perforated diamond anvil cells to generate pressures of up to 32 gigapascals (GPa) -- roughly one-tenth the pressure at the center of the Earth. By "squashing" vitreous (glassy) arsenic oxide samples between the anvils, the researchers were able to determine the mechanism behind the structure's atypical behavior under high-pressure.
The diamond-anvil cell is a simple device capable of generating pressures almost as great as those found on the centre of the Earth. By applying these pressures to small samples we can then study how materials behave under high presures by a variety of techniques.
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Thursday 15 November, 2007 04:07 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Do you cringe at the thought of a needle? How about the thought of several thousand needles? Well that's what HP and Crospon would like to do and it's actually not as bad as you would think. They are using micro needles mixed in with HP's injket technology to accurately deliver drugs to patients in a painfree manner. Others have tried developing alternatives to needles but this solution definately has some advantages over them.
It's quite good to see existing technology being reused in innovative ways.
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Thursday 15 November, 2007 12:08 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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EXPLOSIVES, engineering and chemicals giant Orica is tipping record profit growth in 2007-08 as key investments and productivity improvements bear fruit.
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Tuesday 13 November, 2007 10:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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Right, you've got your tank of oil, and you need to measure what's in it accurately. In a large enough tank even a small margin of error can translate into being quite a few liters off. The common method is to use a dib tape but in a large tank this usually isn't accurate enough. You could install some measuring equipment but that is going to be costly. As usual simplicity rules and this solution may be what you're looking for.
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Saturday 10 November, 2007 12:04 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Scientists and bio engineers could see a changing landscape as -- The biodiesel production from vegetable oils or animal fats produces a large percentage (as much as 10%) of glycerine as a by-product.
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Wednesday 7 November, 2007 08:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
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Chemical Engineers must ensure eternal vigilance is maintained to ensure the highest possible Q&A standards -- MILAN — In January, Honor International Pharmtech was accused of shipping counterfeit drugs into the United States. Even so, the Chinese chemical company — whose motto is “Thinking Much of Honor” — was openly marketing its products in October to thousands of buyers here at the world’s biggest trade show for pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Thursday 1 November, 2007 08:12 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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Engineering and Biological cements to repair ‘burst fractures’ of the spine are being developed and tested in a collaborative project between Queen’s University Belfast and Leeds University.
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Thursday 1 November, 2007 08:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Future space explorers will be doing just that. As well as drinking their own urine they'll also be drinking their own perspiration. Scientists are currently at a stage where they can recycle 92% of waste moisture but they want to do better than that and are engineering new ways to go about it.
Tests have shown that the process is pretty good, most people can barely taste the difference between this and fresh water. Though, if you think about it, even fresh water is recycled water, it's just that mother nature does a much better job.
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Tuesday 30 October, 2007 04:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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The mechanical knife is on it's death bed as lasers are applied to more and more applications and the technical engineering applications are endless Engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine.
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Saturday 27 October, 2007 07:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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This is a "tacky" subject but we will "stick" to the article and try to "adhere" to all of the facts as the chemical engineers might say - ..... Flexible displays, water-purification filters, and materials that convert heat directly into electricity could be easier to make thanks to a new polymer that allows researchers to coat almost any object, even one made of Teflon, with microscopic patterns of metals and organic materials.
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Friday 26 October, 2007 11:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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A very colorful article - and many uses in the engineering and manufacturing world MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt concentration and humidity.
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Tuesday 23 October, 2007 11:01 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Twelve companies in the petrochemical and plastics chain are to form a specialized industrial cluster in Cartagena on Colombia's northern coast by setting up production plants with investments of around US$150mn, local press reported.
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Tuesday 23 October, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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This article has a lot of attraction. Maybe a whole new field of process engineering ? From magnetic drawing toys to grade-school science demonstrations, tiny particles of iron oxide can be delightfully entertaining when subjected to magnetic forces. Modify the particles a bit via chemical means and the stuff of child's play can turn into building blocks of future high-tech devices.
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Monday 22 October, 2007 11:01 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Nowadays it seems there's nothing that carbon nanotubes can't do. They are the modern day MacGyver, apparently able to save the world from any of the several plights that we are currently in danger from. Even more powerful, some say, than duct tape.
And now we know that fuit flies can quite safely ingest these nanotubes, and have pictures taken. But on a serious note this is another step on the path to being able to more accuratly detect diseases. One has to wonder however if there are engineering uses for this. Like, for instance, better ways to detect structural problems in bridges or other structures?
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Saturday 20 October, 2007 06:57 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Duct tape can be an engineers best friend. I know it's gotten me out of a sticky situation on several occassions.
Not only can it be used to make a wallet, or help hold a computer case together, it can also quite literally be a computer case, and many other things no doubt.
But I bet you've never given a second thought as to how this marvel of the modern world actually works, or what van der Waals forces are for that matter either?
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Saturday 20 October, 2007 03:08 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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All good for engineering and maximum encouragement Science Daily — By adding features to commonly used chemical-engineering software packages , researchers at the University of Arkansas, the University of Akron and Chemstations Inc. have developed adaptive technology that allows blind or visually impaired students and working professionals to perform the essential functions of chemical-engineering process design.
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Thursday 18 October, 2007 07:04 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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Sometimes it's better that you just don't know these things !! If diethylene glycol is banned as poisonous , why do they allow polyethylene glycol to be sold in products to relieve constipation?
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Wednesday 17 October, 2007 05:11 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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It's always good to unravel a mystery of the Universe SHENZHEN: A China-US collaborated neutrino experiment expected to hopefully unravel one of the mysteries of the universe was launched at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Shenzhen, in South China's Guangdong Province, on Saturday.
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Tuesday 16 October, 2007 01:02 PM |
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