First 'practical nanogenerator' developed

For the past several years, scientists from around the world have been engaged in the development of nanogenerators – tiny piezoelectric devices capable of generating electricity by harnessing minute naturally-occurring movements, such as the shifting of clothing or even the beating of a person's heart. So far, while they may have worked in principle, few if any of the devices have been able to generate enough of a current to make them practical for use in consumer products. Now scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology are claiming to have created "the world's first practical nanogenerator."

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DIGIMAT 4.1.2 is released

e-Xstream is very pleased to announce the release of DIGIMAT 4.1.2; The unique nonlinear multi-scale material & structure modeling platform focused on bringing new insight into composite material design!

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Silicon Graphics introduced a cloud HPC solution Cyclone - the world's first large scale on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications

Cyclone is the world's first large scale on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications. Cyclone capitalizes on over twenty years of SGI HPC expertise to address the growing science and engineering technical markets that rely on extremely high-end computational hardware, software and networking equipment to achieve rapid results. Cyclone supports a number of leading applications partners and five technical domains, including computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, computational chemistry and materials, computational biology and ontologies.

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Teenager builds 'death-ray' which can burn through almost anything

Eric Jacqmain, from Indiana in the US, covered an ordinary fibreglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles - and made his very own 'death ray'.

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Strategic partnership between LMS International & e-Xstream engineering

LMS International and e-Xstream engineering have started a strategic partnership to develop fatigue tools for random fiber-reinforced composites.

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Biggest A350 XWB carbon fuselage panel manufactured

Airbus partner, Premium AEROTEC, has successfully completed the curing of the largest A350 XWB fuselage panel made from carbon fibre at its site in Nordenham (Germany). Located on the forward right-hand side of the fuselage the panel covers a area of 93 square meters.

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Russian Science Report by UNESCO

UNESCO has prepared one of the most reputable studies in the world concerning analysis of the current condition of the world science. The Science Report also includes analytical and statistical information about Russian science.

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NVIDIA boasts up to 10 times better performance with Quadro 400

NVIDIA has announced the NVIDIA Quadro 400 graphics processing unit (GPU), a new professional graphics solution. Built for use with professional applications, such as Autodesk AutoCAD, the NVIDIA Quadro 400 GPU provides up to 10x improvement when running some CAD/CAM applications, according to the company.

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New Maple 15 supports NVIDIA CUDA

Maplesoft Maple 15 can take advantage of CUDA-enabled graphics cards to leverage the tremendous computational power of those cards, dramatically speeding up key computations.

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PTC releases Windchill 10.0

PTC, The Product Development Company, today announced the release of Windchill 10.0, the newest version of PTC’s product lifecycle management (PLM) software. With the latest release of Windchill, PTC is enabling manufacturers to do more throughout the product lifecycle, know more about product performance and get more value from PLM.

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