April 12, 2007

Researchers from the Caesarea Rothschild Institute (University of Haifa) and The Center for Scientific and Technological Research (ITC-irst) of Trento, Italy, have come together to bring technology into the realm of culture.

Paul Weimer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Weimer hopes to get the lumber industry interested in replacing half of the phenol formaldehyde (PF), a petroleum-based adhesive now used to make plywood, with a biomass-based adhesive.

Paul Weimer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Weimer hopes to get the lumber industry interested in replacing half of the phenol formaldehyde (PF), a petroleum-based adhesive now used to make plywood, with a biomass-based adhesive.

Researchers at Stanford University in the Clean Slate Design for the Internet project are questioning the Internet as a global communications resource.

The SAE World Congress, which runs from April 16 to 20, offers over 1,500 technical presentations on key automotive-engineering topics.

Smart Force LED drivers from Endicott Research Group target high-bright LEDs in a wide range of LCD backlighting applications, with screen sizes from 6.4 to 20-in. diagonal.

A novel digital crystal-video receiver (DCVR) from researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute could make radar equipment more reliable and cheaper to build.

A chipset from International Rectifier joins the company's XPhase family of control and phase ICs for scalable multiphase, interleaved buck dc-dc converters.

Terahertz waves are the last segment of the electromagnetic spectrum to be exploited by scientists. And, while T-rays show promise for sensing and imaging, the size and weight of the bulky equipment they need have been an obstacle.

A new BH374MO polypropylene from Borealis AG, Austria, has been developed specifically for pail-packaging converters.