RTI International Metals Inc., Pittsburgh, announces that it has been selected to provide finished titanium structural parts to Airbus for its new A350-1000 aircraft program.
Launched in 2006, the New Horizons space probe is powered by plutonium. (No surprise there!) It will take 16 months for the probe to transmit all its data to Earth.
Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany, launched the DM4 P polarization microscope for the investigation of crystalline structures such as minerals, plastics and polymers, drugs and pharmaceuticals, or pigments, and cement.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., came up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large machines that make bulk measurements of samples down to a literally pinpoint-precision probe.