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An Optical Merger! May 16, 2008 4:00 PM -- But what does the Finisar/Optium deal take away?

That's what Georgio Anania told me was the problem with the optical components industry -- no one had the cajones to pull of the kind of big merger the sector needs. A couple of years later, you've got Finisar Corp. (Nasdaq: FNSR - message board) and
5/17/2008 1:16:00 AM

Winners of New Video Game Could Score Nobel Prize

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5/16/2008 11:31:00 PM

Building 'super roadmaps' of planets and moons

Technology that could someday 'MapQuest' Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology's Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory (RIDL), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
5/16/2008 10:02:00 PM

Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity In Piezoelectric Materials

? A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors.* The ability to
5/16/2008 9:42:00 PM

Emergency Links: 'Sweet Spot' For Radios In Tunnels Identified

? As part of a project to improve wireless communications for emergency responders, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that underground tunnels--generally a difficult setting for radios--can have a
5/16/2008 9:41:00 PM

Tool Helps Internet Master Top-level Domains

? At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new 'top-level domains'--the last part of an
5/16/2008 9:40:00 PM

Crystal (Eye) Ball: Visual System Equipped With 'Future Seeing Powers'

? Catching a football. Maneuvering through a room full of people. Jumping out of the way when a golfer yells ?fore.? Most would agree these seemingly simple actions require us to perceive and quickly respond to a situation. Assistant Professor of
5/16/2008 9:39:00 PM

Firstscience Science Fact of the Day - 16 May 2008

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer still uses a 56k modem to access the internet at home. Despite living only 6 minutes from downtown Seattle, the ultra-rich suburb that Ballmer lives in does not have access to a regular broadband connection. (Ever heard of
5/16/2008 9:13:00 PM

Thirty-Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites

After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one in each hemisphere, for further
5/16/2008 8:41:00 PM

4:00 PM -- But what does the Finisar/Optium deal take away?

That's what Georgio Anania told me was the problem with the optical components industry -- no one had the cajones to pull of the kind of big merger the sector needs. A couple of years later, you've got Finisar Corp. (Nasdaq: FNSR - message board) and
5/16/2008 7:57:00 PM

An Optical Merger!

That's what Georgio Anania told me was the problem with the optical components industry -- no one had the cajones to pull of the kind of big merger the sector needs. A couple of years later, you've got Finisar Corp. (Nasdaq: FNSR - message board) and
5/16/2008 7:57:00 PM

Finisar/Optium Merge

Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR - message board) and Optium Corporation (NASDAQ: OPTM - message board) jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which the two companies will be combined through an all-stock
5/16/2008 7:56:00 PM

Aria Does R&D With KDDI

Aria Networks, a leading provider of Intelligent Software solutions for planning of Next Generation Networks (NGNs), today announce that it has developed iVNT (intelligent Virtual Network Topology) software with KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. of Japan for
5/16/2008 7:55:00 PM

Students from Taiwan and U.S. Win at International Science Fair

Teenagers from the United States and Taiwan won the top honors Friday at the world's largest science competition for high-school students. Mike Cooper talked to winners of the international science fair held in the southeastern U.S. city of Atlanta.
5/16/2008 7:50:00 PM

Spin control: New technique sorts nanotubes by length

Researchers at the have reported* a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high-speed centrifuges. Many potential applications for carbon nanotubes depend on the lengths of these microscopic cylinders, and one of the most
5/16/2008 7:24:00 PM

Bitter orange SRMs: Tools for product analysis/quality

The has developed Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and now increasingly used in herbal weight-loss products. Researchers can use the new materials to develop and test analytical methods for compounds in
5/16/2008 7:24:00 PM

Universe is twice as bright as previously thought

London, May 16 : Astronomers from UK Universities working with colleagues from Germany and Australia have calculated that the Universe is actually twice as bright as previously thought. The team of astronomers has come up with this theory after finding
5/16/2008 7:23:00 PM

Physics Professor Demonstrates Lasing Without Inversion (LWI)

Newswise Kishor Kapale, an assistant professor of physics at , had his research, 'Lasing Without Inversion: Counterintuitive Population Dynamics in the Transient Regime,' published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters (PRL) vol. 100, article
5/16/2008 6:50:00 PM

Engineering a new life after years of study

A PRODUCT of China's one-child policy, Zhuo Li is the only offspring of his father, a high-ranking bureaucrat and member of the Chinese Communist Party, and his mother, who is in small business. Despite the thought of an 'empty nest', his parents wanted
5/16/2008 6:17:00 PM

Turkish Researchers' Achievement In Tissue Engineering

Turkish researchers at the Hacettepe University have made a significant achievement by adding nano-structures to polymers, a kind of plastic used in manufacturing of artificial tissues.In an exclusive interview with the A.A, Prof. Dr. Olgun Guven of the
5/16/2008 5:49:00 PM

Dubai goes in search of elixir of youth with launch of Anti-Aging Congress

Reversing the signs and symptoms of aging is now a reality of modern medical technology driven by 450 million baby boomers worldwide.Driven by the advancements made in reversing the natural process of aging, November's Dubai Congress on Anti-Aging &
5/16/2008 5:47:00 PM

Biopolymer materials show promise for electronics and photonics applications

DNA-based materials possess unique electromagnetic and optical properties and may lead to improved performance for organic-based devices.Nano/biotronics is a new research area that uses biologically based materials and devices for photonics and
5/16/2008 5:46:00 PM

Cosmic Log: Science debate moves on

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5/16/2008 5:20:00 PM

Philippine Science Letters a new science journal is launched - STAR SCIENCE By Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion, PhD, and Eduardo A. Padlan, PhD

We have started Philippine Science Letters (PSL). PSL is a peer-reviewed, online journal that showcases science done in the Philippines and science done by Filipinos elsewhere. It will publish articles (regular research articles, short communications,
5/16/2008 4:34:00 PM

Emergency links: NIST identifies 'sweet spot' for radios in tunnels

As part of a project to improve wireless communications for emergency responders, researchers at the have confirmed that underground tunnels-generally a difficult setting for radios-can have a frequency "sweet spot" at which signals may travel several
5/16/2008 4:22:00 PM