• New biofueled diesel engine developed

    U.K. company develops 100 percent-biofueled diesel engine which could help provide electricity to remote communities in the developing world; engine can run on pure biofuel with no additives — but also on a variety of vegetable oils which have not been converted to conventional biofuels

  • TSA launches news airport airside and perimeter security

    Billions of dollars have been invested in — and strict regulations promulgated for — passenger and baggage screening to prevent explosives from being taken on board; very little money has been invested in and no specific mandates imposed regarding airport perimeter security; TSA is changing this — and also takes the next essential step: coordination among the different money bodies involved in airport perimeter security

  • New Trojan targets Australian business bankers

    A systematic phishing campaign has been targeting Aussie financial institutions; a Trojan masked as a bank’s security update proceeds to launch a multi-staged attack, looking for not just usernames and passwords, but chat room credentials, secure downloads, and anything the attackers believe may be useful

  • Lower Mississippi River region braces for major flood

    Floodwaters are projected to crest at St. Louis at 38 feet on 22 or 23 June, marking the eleventh time since the Civil War that St. Louis has reached that flood stage; during the flood of 1993 waters at St. Louis crested at 49.6 feet

  • Assessing landslide risk

    Researchers develop new technique for assessing areas most at risk from landslides

  • New Air Force Cyber Command politically savvy

    One way to secure the Hill’s backing — and bucks — for any new program is to spread it over as many states and congressional districts as possible; AFCYBER may be a new outfit, but its leaders are perfectly aware of this old political truth

  • Royal Mint issues urgent call for disaster recovery system

    Tender comes after critical review warns about inadequate contingency plans

  • PG&E in 106 MW combined solar-thermal-biofuel hybrid power

    Pacific Gas and Electricity to build a combined solar-thermal-biofuel hybrid power plant in California which will deliver a total of 700 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually of renewable electricity to PG&E customers throughout northern and central parts of the state

  • New mercury detector developed

    University of Massachusetts researcher develops new mercury detector which detects minute quantities of mercury even in the presence of other metals

  • Experts: Surprise quake shows Japan's vulnerability

    Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude quake was the most powerful to strike inland Japan in eight years; experts say the Big One may hit anywhere in the country, in a repeat of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake which left 142,807 people dead

  • U.K. leads world in nuclear energy investment

    Te United Kingdom attracts the world’s leading energy companies to build the country’s next generation of nuclear power stations

  • Ocean changes may trigger U.S. megadrought

    From AD 800 to 1250 the North American continent suffered from an exceedingly dry period; experts build climate model which shows that the warming of the oceans may lead to another long parched period — what they call “megadrought”

  • Security hole exposes utilities to Internet attack

    Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems remotely manage computers that control machinery, including water supply valves, industrial baking equipment, and security systems at nuclear power plants; security vulnerability is discovered in SCADA — and patched, but other vulnerabilities may remain

  • Network penetration competition as part of security training

    In recent years the goals of computer hackers have changed; the intent of many hackers used to be the thrill of breaking into a network, now the goal is often money; companies and other organizations had better take network security more seriously.

  • German solar sector attracting investors

    More and more investors are moving into the German solar energy sector; sector employment should grow from 41,000 jobs last year to around 110,000 by 2020