Research topics include water loss control, communication on cyanotoxins, water and wastewater capacity charge programs, and fostering sustainable relationships between clean water agencies and the community.

Treatment plant upgrades include such things as new trash screens, new grit removal systems and pumps, as well as an enlarged flow equalization basin.

The International Water Association has named as its new president Diane d’Arras, executive vice president, Suez Water Europe.

Silicon’s elasticity has been under threat for some time and a joint paper in Science from UC Berkeley, Stanford, the Lawrence Berkeley National University and the University of Texas could spell the end of the silicon story.

Read full article: 1nm gate-length MoS2 transistors could spell the end of silicon

TSMC looks like it’s bidding for process leadership with the revelation of co-CEO Mark Liu that it is starting volume production on 10nm this year, and volume production on 7nm in 2018

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You’d have thought that what most Americans are most dreading is their choice of President next month but, according to CB Insights, this is what the Americans are most afraid of: The top ten fears are: Corrupt government officials 60.6 Terrorist Attack/Manmade Disasters 41 Not having enough money for the future. 39.9 Terrorism/Crime 38.5 Government …

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I sometimes despair that our government has to make decisions based on facts. Because so few politicians or MPs appear to have any real grasp of statistics or numbers. That said, there are a few people who can understand numbers near the government, and there are some very good Lords* – Gus O’Donnell, for example, knows …

Read full article: Royal Academy of Engineering brexit report

UK engineering bodies are aiming at the Government with a detailed report about Brexit, called ‘Engineering a future outside the EU: securing the best outcome for the UK’.

Read full article: Engineering Brexit report aims at Government

See how National Instruments is improving airplane production efficiency.

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An interesting experiment has been proposed by Dr Davidson of Battersea College of Technology, London, in a letter to Nature. So, 56 years ago, started a piece in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1960. He suggests the use of an artificial satellite carrying a caesium atomic clock. A measurement could then be made of …

Read full article: Time, Einstein and Satellites