NASA Technology Melts Ice, Keeping Transit System Safe (December 19, 2001) -- A NASA-developed, environmentally friendly anti-icing fluid that can make railroad and commuter travel safer and more reliable during snowy conditions is now available for commercial applications. ... > full story

Suckling Behavior Of Newborn Rats Can Be Manipulated Through Use Of Scents, New Research Shows (May 29, 2000) -- Learning when to suckle is one of the most important life skills newborn mammals have to acquire in order to survive. New research published in the June issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, published by ... > full story

Speedy Land Travelers Or Seagoing Sailors? Temple Archaeologist Investigates Earliest Americans (June 12, 1997) -- Were the first Americans coastal sailors or speedy bands of land-bound hunters? Once, most archaeologists agreed that ancient hunters raced southward over the Bering Land Bridge to the tip of South ... > full story

Operations Research Prize Spotlights Secrets Of Lucent's Success (October 26, 1998) -- Today Lucent Technologies received the INFORMS Prize, the highest honor given for an organization's body of work in operations research, at the national meeting of the Institute for Operations ... > full story

Wound Healers Cause Skin Disease (October 15, 2004) -- Dutch researcher Manon Franssen has shown that cells which heal the skin following an injury play an important role in the development of the skin disease psoriasis. In people with psoriasis, the ... > full story

NASA Observatory Tracking Rare Solar Event (May 5, 2003) -- The planet Mercury will pass in front of the sun on Wednesday, May 7 in an unusual event called a transit. NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft offers excellent, safe views of ... > full story

Drivers Should Pay More Of Environmental Costs, Report Says (February 23, 1998) -- A report by two University of Toronto civil engineers finds people would rather pay more for road-use costs such as parking, tolls, and environmental taxes before changing their driving ... > full story

Lucent Technologies Announces The Next Generation In Internet Security (December 8, 1997) -- Lucent Technologies announces a new Internet firewall designed to be the industry's most secure, expandable and easy-to-use hardware and software platform for protecting customers' data networks. The ... > full story

Hybrid Buses Operate With Lower Emissions, Greater Fuel Efficiency (August 2, 2002) -- A recently released study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) concludes that hybrid buses operate with lower emissions and greater fuel efficiency ... > full story

Researchers Release New Variety Of Asparagus (February 15, 2006) -- UC Riverside researchers have released a new variety of asparagus that offers a higher yield than previous varieties of the vegetable and boasts an excellent spear quality, marked by a high ... > full story

Lucent's Advanced "Camera On A Chip" Silicon Technology Promises Widespread Applications (July 16, 1998) -- Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation has licensed high-performance "camera on a chip" technology from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs. The technology will lead to marble-sized video ... > full story

Engineering geology -- Engineering Geology is the application of the science of geology to the understanding of geologic phenomena and the engineering solution of geologic hazards and other geologic problems for ... > full article

Transport -- Transport or transportation is the movement of people, goods, signals and information. The field of transport has several aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, ... > full article

Marlin -- The marlin is a large game fish. It has an elongated body, up to 2.5 m long, a spearlike snout, and a long rigid dorsal fin, which extends forwards to form a crest. Marlins are fast swimmers, ... > full article

Weapon -- A weapon is a tool which can be used during combat to kill or incapacitate, to destroy property, or to otherwise render resources non-functional or unavailable. It may be used to attack and defend, ... > full article

Wood Bison -- The Wood Bison is a distinct northern subspecies of the North American Bison. Reduced by hunting from a total population of about 168,000 to less than 250 individuals by 1900, the Wood Bison has ... > full article

Hydrogen vehicle -- A hydrogen car is an automobile which uses hydrogen as its primary source of power for locomotion. These cars generally use the hydrogen in one of two methods: combustion or fuel-cell ... > full article

Catalytic converter -- A catalytic converter is a device used to reduce the emissions from an internal combustion engine. Most commonly used in an automobile's exhaust system, catalytic converters are now commonly used on ... > full article

IEEE 802.11 -- IEEE 802.11, the Wi-Fi standard, denotes a set of Wireless LAN/WLAN standards developed by working group 11 of the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE ... > full article

Incident Command System -- The Incident Command System (ICS) is a management system used within the United States to organize emergency response and was designed to offer a scalable response to incidents of any magnitude. As ... > full article

Fuel cell -- A fuel cell is an electrochemical device similar to a battery, but differing from the latter in that it is designed for continuous replenishment of the reactants consumed; i.e. it produces ... > full article

Interaction Design
INTERACTION DESIGN: BEYOND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION is an up-to-date exposition of the design of the current and next generation interactive technologies, such as the Web, mobiles, and wearables. ... > read more

Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes
MASTER THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES POWERING THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY! If staying on top of the latest developments in the petroleum refining process industry is part of your work, here's the one-stop ... > read more

Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota's System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It
If you're in new product development, or simply work in management and depend on new products for your livelihood, this is definitely the must-read of the decade. You're going to love the increased ... > read more

A Crack in the Edge of the World : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Geologically speaking, 1906 was a violent year: powerful, destructive earthquakes shook the ground from Taiwan to South America, while in Italy, Mount Vesuvius erupted. And in San Francisco, a large ... > read more

Drilling: The Manual of Methods, Applications, and Management
Drilling: The Manual of Methods, Applications, and Management is all about drilling and its related geology, machinery, methods, applications, management, safety issues, and more. Of all the ... > read more

Information Systems Management in Practice (7th Edition)
Dealing with the management of information technology (IT) as it is being practiced in organizations today, the emphasis of this book is on the current material that information systems executives ... > read more

The Anatomy Coloring Book (3rd Edition)
Often imitated, never duplicated. New! Lay-flat binding makes coloring easier. New! 8 plates have been added: Accessory Structures of the Skin, Temporomandibular Joint, Upper Limb: Shoulder ... > read more

The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner (Practice Planners)
This fully revised resource features: Treatment plan components for 42 behaviorally based presenting problems, including 3 entirely new to this edition Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, ... > read more

Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (2nd Edition)
NEW ORGANIZATION. The second edition consists of five parts, following two introductory chapters: I. Automation and control technologies: industrial computer control, control system components, ... > read more

What Every Home Owner Needs to Know About Mold and What to Do About It
The complete guide to dealing with mold in your home--the asbestos of the new millennium Toxic mold infestations in the home have been brought to the forefront of public awareness. Erin ... > read more