DOE Backs Electrochemical Developer
Loan Guarantee: Minnesota company to expand high-tech window production.

LyondellBasell Files Reorganization Plan
Bankruptcy: Company rejects Reliance bid in favor of private equity.

European Chemicals Agency Proposes Expanded Regulations
Chemical Controls: Trichloroethylene and seven other compounds targeted.

Methane From Arctic Ocean
Climate Science: Amount of the greenhouse gas seeping from undersea deposits is much greater than expected.

Upbeat Outlook At Pittcon
Instrumentation: Business picks up as worry over economy begins to dissipate.

Dome away from home
(National Science Foundation) After more than three decades of service to researchers and staff stationed at the bottom of the world, the dome at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station...

Cotton is the fabric of your lights...your iPod...your MP3 player...your cell phone
(Cornell University) Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer's day. Or a solar-powered dress that...

Vilcek prizes in biomedical science awarded
(Vilcek Foundation) The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce the granting of the 2010 Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science and the Vilcek Prize, for Creative Promise. Both prizes a...

'The Rosenfeld' named after California's godfather of energy efficiency
(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A group of scientists propose today in a refereed article in Environmental Research Letters to define the Rosenfeld as a unit for electrici...

From the desk lamp to the desktop?
(Optical Society of America) In the future, getting a broadband connection might be as simple as flipping on a light switch. In fact, according to a group of researchers from Germany ...