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A better image

Added: 18 Jan 2005

Rice University doctoral student Balaji Sitharaman has created a new class of contrast agen…

Cleaner coaches spun out of Oxford

Added: 17 Jan 2005

A new fuel additive developed by Oxford researchers and commercialised by Oxford spin-out c…

Sempra awarded $1.4 billion gas contract

Added: 12 Jan 2005

Sempra LNG, a unit of Sempra Energy, has been awarded a $1.4 billion natural gas supply contract by…

Shell sells Bakersfield refinery

Added: 11 Jan 2005

Shell announced yesterday that its Shell Oil Products US subsidiary has signed an agreement to sell…

Recycling for Roy

Added: 5 Jan 2005

If Santa brought you a new mobile phone for Christmas, you can now put your old one to good…

Getting more for less

Added: 5 Jan 2005

ABB has developed a decision-support tool to help power plant managers solve one of their m…

Steam secret of natural fission

Added: 22 Nov 2004

The world's only known natural nuclear reactor, which decommissioned itself over two billio…

Full steam ahead

Added: 22 Nov 2004

The new combined heat and power plant under construction at BASF's Ludwigshafen site demonstrates t…

Cyanide offences

Added: 17 Nov 2004

US-owned Sevalco has been ordered to appear before the UK Crown Court after it released up to seven…

ABB hopes to double sales in China by 2008

Added: 5 Nov 2004

Power and automation technology giant ABB has revealed plans for a huge expansion of its operations…

Calder Hall applies for decommissioning

Added: 20 Oct 2004

Calder Hall on the Sellafield site has applied to the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate for consen…

Drugs in water worry

Added: 20 Oct 2004

Once drugs have done their work in the body, they, or their residues, inevitably end up in the wast…

Old bloodhound gets a sharper nose

Added: 15 Oct 2004

Purdue University chemists have developed a fast, efficient means of analysing chemical sam…

Wrapping up retardants

Added: 4 Oct 2004

UK-based Axion Recycling is to lead a consortium of companies and institutions in a 19-month projec…

On-site options

Added: 24 Sep 2004

Hannah Scott argues the time is ripe for small companies to consider the potential cost savings of …

Greenhouse gas absorption

Added: 24 Sep 2004

Researchers from Penn State University in Pennsylvania have now found a process which can speed the…

Hydrogen storage

Added: 24 Sep 2004

One of the main stumbling blocks to the acceptance of fuel cells is how to store large quantities o…

Nanotech cleans up

Added: 24 Sep 2004

The proteins which carry iron around the bloodstream are being used to make nanoparticles t…

Plastic waste fraud

Added: 16 Sep 2004

A UK Government investigation has revealed that some reprocessors and exporters of plastic packagin…

Innovative biodiesel

Added: 13 Sep 2004

AMEC has been awarded a $1.9 million contract to design a $24 million commercial scale biod…