Solar future brightens as oil soars (08/09/2008)
Soaring oil prices have led to such a boom for solar power that the industry could operate without subsidies in just a few years, according to industry leaders. At the solar industry trade fair in Munich over the weekend, there was growing confidence that the holy grail known as "grid parity" - whereby electricity from the sun can be produced as cheaply as it can be bought from the grid - is now just a few years away.
U.S. scientists produce nanoscale droplet (07/09/2008)
California to build world’s biggest solar power plants (18/08/2008)
ASEAN celebrates 41st founding anniversary (12/08/2008)
VietNamNet Bridge - ASEAN celebrated its 41st anniversary on August 8 and marked the occasion by a flag hoisting ceremony held at the ASEAN Secretariat in the capital city of
In his speech, ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan reviewed the development of the grouping over the past 41 years.
Asian Science Camp 2008 to be organized in Bali (04/08/2008)
The Asian Science Camp (ASC) 2008 is to be organized in
Improved Tsunami Early Warning With New Software System (14/07/2008)
After completing their simulation component in the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS), the team for tsunami modelling of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association has presented the currently leading software system for tsunami events with the potential for catastrophe. It is now being integrated into the Decision Support System (DSS) of the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen. It is to resume its test mode in Indonesia in November.
Scientists: Global warming damaging sea’s food web (07/07/2008)
Global warming increases the rate of "ocean acidification" and is damaging some of the most important living organisms in the sea' + char(39)+ N's food web,
PDF format becomes ISO standard (03/07/2008)
The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated, original developer and copyright owner of the format, to relinquish control to ISO, who is now in charge of publishing the specifications for the current version (1.7) and for updating and developing future versions.
Unsung fathers of technology (19/06/2008)
Father of the mobile phone: Marty Cooper: Cooper filed a patent for the radio telephone system in 1973, while working at Motorola, and was the first person to make a call on a portable mobile phone. (He called a rival engineer at Bell Labs.) Cooper has stated that his inspiration came from watching Star Trek Captain Kirk talk on his communicator device. Today, Cooper is the CEO and founder of ArrayComm.
New Wireless Sensor Network Keeps Tabs On The Environment (13/06/2008)
Research in the University of Alberta' + char(39)+ N's Faculty of Science may soon be able to answer that question. The departments of computing science and earth and atmospheric science have been working together to create a Wireless Sensor Network that allows for the clandestine data collection of environmental factors in remote locations and its monitoring from anywhere in the world where the Internet is available.
