(Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta) -- Seismologists have developed a new system that could be used to warn future populations of an impending tsunami only minutes after the initial earthquake.

(International Organization for Standardization: Geneva, Switzerland

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Before you can build that improved turbojet engine, before you can create that longer lasting battery, you have to ensure all the newfangled materials in it will behave the way you want—even under conditions as harsh as the upper atmosphere at supersonic speed, or

(Renishaw: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- The Equator gauging system is a r

(Rucker & Associates Inc: Raleigh, NC) -- Completely shifting production methods is no easy feat for any organization. But that is just what Unifi Manufacturing Inc.

Sometimes things that seem factual are not exactly true. Here are a few examples relating to inventory:

“Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Ned / a poor Texas Sharpshooter barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was shootin’ at his barn / and he came up with a plan to spin a silly yarn.

(Centric Software Inc: Campbell, CA) -- Centric—a leading provider of product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions for makers of hard and soft lines in the luxury, fashion, and consumer goods industries—is introducin

(Qualitest USA: Fort Lauderdale, FL) -- Qualitest introduces the new G2/130 Gas Transmission Rate Tester for measuring the gas permeability rate of hollow packaging containers. The gas used in a test may be air, oxygen, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide, among others.

(American National Standards Institute: Washington) -- The 2011 World Standards Day Paper Competition has been announced by the U.S.