January 22nd, 2010 by admin

US automakers need to leave survival mode

“This is a Wal-Mart industry,” in which a mainstream auto company must sell a million of each vehicle it develops to profit and survive, Fiat Group CEO … Read More…

Gulf Coast vulnerable as refiners hit ha
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rd times

But Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson told reporters in May “there's no question there are some marginal refiners that probably will not survive. … Read More…

Economic Climate Opens Door for Small Wind Energy Projects

Although 2009 may be a year to survive for some players in the wind industry, it presents a golden opportunity for the mid-scale market. … Read More…
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1. LW Scientific Medical Microscopes

   by
   
   Jeremy Linder

   Versatile models of LW Scientific Medical Microscopes can efficiently carry out the various diagnostic applications in medical laboratories. These microscopes are widely used in hematology, pathology, microbiology and cytology laboratories for performing sample analysis.

2. Microphotography – The Art and Science of Taking Pictures Through a Microscope

   by
   
   Kuan-Hsiang Huang

   With the advances of digital cameras, taking pictures through microscope lens can never been easier. In this article, I will to introduce you four different ways to take photos thorough microscopes depending on your equipments and requirements.

3. Guidelines on How to Use a Digital Balance Scale

   by
   
   Richard Alone

   Digital scales have brought a new fresh innovation in the digital age by introducing the digital balance scale. Its approaches as a new way of learning in relation to weights in science and many other which earlier you might have found difficult to get used. Digital balance scale is also being divided into subcategories as pocket scale, gram scale, beam scale and precision scale.

4. Neurofeedback and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Offer Hope For a Brain Injury Patient

   by
   
   Clare Albright

   In 2007, Tito was a vibrant young man whose whole life lay ahead of him. But in an instant, that life was drastically changed when a car accident left him with severe brain damage. Doctors told his mother, Gladys, she would have to say goodbye to her son. They didn’t expect him to live for more than 24 hours.

5. LW Scientific Educational Microscopes

   by
   
   Jeremy Linder

   LW Scientific educational microscopes enable convenient and efficient performance of various research procedures in school biology laboratories. Handy Choice for School Laboratory Settings: When compared to the basic microscope models, LW Scientific educational microscopes are of great use for both the students and teachers of elementary, middle, junior and high school classes.

6. How Particle Size Analysis is Used Across Different Industries

   by
   
   Andrew K Long

   Particle sizing and analysis is the study of particles for determination of their sizes. These particles can be solid, liquid or gaseous. In its most common form, particle size is considered taking a particle to be spherical in shape.

7. Laser and Light Scattering Particle Size Analysis

   by
   
   Andrew K Long

   Particle size analysis is the scientific and analytical technique used for measurement and reporting of distribution of sizes in any sample of particulate material. The particulate material could be in any form – solid, liquid, or gaseous.

8. Interactive Technology – Maintaining the Balance of Information and Technology Or a Game Changer?

   by
   
   Ryan Barkman

   The definition of information has expanded with the advance of technology. IT professionals design complicated computer networks and info databases. They install applications for those networks and manage databases. They provide engineering of computer hardware, data management, networking and the development and design of software. IT staffers also can manage and provide the administration of the entire computer system.

9. Remember How Much We Owe Galileo and Others Like Him For Bringing Light Into Darkness

   by
   
   Merlin Lee

   You and I take a lot for granted today. Not so very long ago, the Roman Catholic church had the self-appointed, nevertheless very real, authority to tell you what you were allowed to believe and what you were allowed to think! And to BURN YOU AT THE STAKE if you dared to publicise anything contrary to their established beliefs, as right or wrong they may be.

10. What Are the Options When Buying Used Lab Equipment?

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    Universities with limited funds are hampered to do in-depth scientific research for lack of laboratory equipment. Donations of used equipment in good condition save these schools. However, schools are not the only ones in need of used equipment. Here we take a look at the options available to anyone considering the purchase of used lab products.

11. Why Chemistry Analysers Are Vital in the Lab

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    The chemistry analyser is one of science greatest inventions. It is a laboratory tool that is used to analyze molecules, body fluids for the presence of diseases or an imbalance in the body’s system.

12. Reproductive Cloning and Genetic Determinism

    by
    
    David Lemberg

    Many objections to reproductive cloning relate to aspects of genetic determinism and to the presumed loss of an open future for children who are clones. Genetic determinism presupposes that our personalities, behaviors, talents, and interests are determined exclusively by our genetic inheritance. GD is characterized by a popular fatalistic notion. I’m not responsible, really, for my actions or choices. My genes made me do it.

13. The Many Applications of the Laboratory Oven

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    A laboratory oven is, as the name suggests, an oven used not for preparing foodstuffs, but for a variety of applications in the laboratory or industrial research and development environment where the thermal convection provided by these ovens are necessary. These applications include sterilizing, drying, annealing, baking polyimides and many others.

14. Uses For Silver

    by
    
    Ryan Dalli

    Silver is a chemical element, which has the symbol Ag, is naturally occurring and can be described as having the characteristics of being quite soft and ductile. In it’s pure form silver is termed ‘native silver’, however, it can also be found as an alloy with gold and other metals. Silver has been mined by many different processes over the years. A common method which has been developed, is the heap leach or cyanide technique.

15. Bio-Tech Companies and Miracles

    by
    
    David M Waldman

    Some call them miracles and some call them the advancement of medical science. In any case there has been an advancement in areas not thought possible a few years ago. The disease made so famous by Lou Gehrig ALS was thought to be incurable and even untreatable. Now there are drugs that are slowing down the disease and very promising research into arresting the disease altogether.

16. Why Lab Mixers Are So Important in Many Environments

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    An indispensable tool in chemical and industrial laboratories is the lab mixer. This is selected for its speed range, operating mode, and dimensions. Here we take a look at some of the many uses of the lab mixer.

17. The Uses of Fume Hoods in a Lab Environment

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    To shield workers from toxic fumes and to protect the specimen, labs are outfitted with laboratory fume hoods. This is mandatory lab safe equipment should be installed in labs that deal with chemical and toxic research and similar applications because this is used everyday. To keep toxic fumes out of the lab’s working area and to protect the worker and specimen from these fumes, laboratory fume hoods are installed.

18. What is the Purpose of a Laboratory Coat?

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    Lab coats reassure us that the person who wears them is someone who will have the answers to our questions, or at the very least, someone who will be able to help us find them. But of course there are many practical reasons for wearing lab coats. Here we take a look at the main ones.

19. Dr Baekerland Would Be Proud!

    by
    
    Chris Dixon

    In 1907, Belgian chemist, Dr Leo Hendrik Baekeland first invented plastic materials, with his discovery of the first thermosetting phenolic resin compound. This was used to manufacture the first plastic products under the brand name of ‘Bakelite’. The best known examples of Bakelite, in UK, were the original telephone handsets and motor car distributor caps – distinctive for being hard, smooth and glossy in the only available dark brown colour.

20. Bacteria, Friend Or Foe? Part 4 of 11

    by
    
    Dave Summers

    It takes 1 bacterium 8 hours to multiply to 16 billion. It takes us years. They cause illness and death and yet protect us from infection. We do not know we have ingested pathogens until it is too late!

21. Are Children Who Are Clones Fully Autonomous?

    by
    
    David Lemberg

    Opponents of reproductive cloning fear the resulting children will not be able to live fully independent lives. Opponents fear these children’s choices will be constrained in numerous ways and assert that an open future – which is a right of every child – will never be possible for a child who is a clone. Reproductive cloning naysayers believe that the human rights of these children will be violated and therefore the process should be banned.

22. First Day of Each Season

    by
    
    Brian Jones Jr.

    The first days of each season are caused by the earth’s revolution around the sun and on how the earth’s axis is tilted. For, polar and temperate regions, four seasons are determined spring, summer, fall and winter. Seasons influence all behaviors of living things.

23. Reproductive Cloning – Counter-Arguments Based on Rights of the Clone

    by
    
    David Lemberg

    Proposals in favor of reproductive cloning (RC) create immediate controversy. Passionate proponents and equally passionate opponents can be found in any Starbucks, every state capitol, and the halls of Congress. Opponents are concerned with the possibility of treating children who are the products of cloning as means to various ends, rather than treating them as ends in themselves. Opponents are also concerned that these children, even if they are treated with full respect and as ends in themselves, will not have opportunities to have fully “open futures.”

24. Identity Paradox

    by
    
    Honeydeep Singh

    Why shouldn’t the human race continue doing what it does and feel like heroes who have conquered the world. A tiny shivering of our little planet creates mass devastation.

25. Modern Methods For Biochemistry Analysis

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    A biochemisty analyser is a device designed to perform a variety of biochemical tests. Invented by Hans Baruch, they were introduced to the medical community, commercially, in 1959, and allowed medical laboratories and hospitals to process more samples more quickly and effectively than before. Here we take a look at how this form of analysis has changed over the years.

26. How Lab Refrigerators Are Used to Store Blood and Plasma

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    In the lab, various materials and samples need to be safely stored, some of which can be quite volatile. With that in mind, a lab refrigerator is designed not only to keep a constant temperature, but to keep their contents secure. Here we take a look at why lab refrigerators are so important.

27. How Modern Microscopes Are Used in the Laboratory

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    The lab microscope is essential to every scientist, and is used everywhere today from medical labs to schools. Here we take a look at how they have evolved and how technology has made a huge difference to their capabilities.

28. The Many Applications of the Lab Freezer

    by
    
    Andrew K Long

    A lab freezer is not just a bigger freezer than the one people use in their own homes, it’s a specific device used to keep critical materials, many of them dangerous, at a constant, regulated temperature. They can be small enough to fit beneath a counter, the size of a normal upright freezer, or even as large as walk in freezers. While most household freezers are kept between zero and -10 degrees Celsius, a lab freezer can get as low as -85 degrees Celsius.

29. Did You Remember the Leap Second This Year?

    by
    
    Richard N Williams

    When you counted down on New Year’s Eve to mark the beginning of the next year did you start at 10 or 11? Most revellers would have counted down from ten but they would have been premature this year as there was an extra second added to last year – the leap second.

30. The Absence of Matter is a Vacuum

    by
    
    Ryan Coisson

    What would it be like to float in space in a perfect vacuum, void of gaseous pressure. Would we feel very light or very heavy? Vacuums have been the source of much study and debate are their applications are numerous for our everyday living. If we were exposed to vacuum we would lose consciousness after a few seconds and death would ensue within minutes due to hypoxia or lack of oxygen.

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