North American Palladium Ltd. is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has approved the development of an underground mine at the Company’s Lac des Iles operations. The decision to proceed with an integra...
New fuel for the next generation of military aircraft is the goal of a team of Penn State researchers who are demonstrating that jet fuel can be made from bituminous coal. "On a pilot scale, we have produced ther...
High-quality nanopowders made of refractory ceramics are a rare and very expensive material. All known methods of their manufacturing face the same problems - scanty quantities, extensive variety of particle sizes and ex...
By bombarding very thin slices of several copper/oxygen compounds, called cuprates, with very bright, short-lived pulses of light, Ivan Bozovic, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labo...
Research by Young-June Kim, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, may help determine how a class of materials already used in electronic circuits could be used in optical, o...
Applied Materials, Inc. has received an order from Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top three dedicated semiconductor foundries, for a broad range of transistor, low k interconnect and inspec...
Nippon Steel Chemical have invested approximately 5 billion yen in their Kyushu Works. The money will be spent on two facilities for the manufacture of ‘Espanex’. Construction on the facilities has commenced....
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an interesting type of electronic behavior in a recently discovered class of superconductors known as cobalt oxides, or ...
BHP Billiton today announced approval for the development of the Ravensthorpe Project and related expansion of the Yabulu Nickel Refinery in Australia. The combined project includes the development of a mine, treatme...
Alcan Inc. has announced that the 300,000 tonne per year alumina supply agreement between Kaiser Aluminum International. and its subsidiary Pechiney Trading Company remains valid and enforceable for its entire duration u...