Following my retirement, we have closed our company for new business.
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly, our email portal remains open and I would be delighted to hear from you and provide ongoing support or advice.
Richard Thomson
support@rta-instruments.com
Companies represented up to the end of December 2023. Please now contact them directly.
k-Space Associates, Inc.
Phone: +1 (734) 426-7977
requestinfo@k-space.com
https://www.k-space.com
STAIB INSTRUMENTS GmbH
Phone: +49 8761 76 24 0
sales@staibinstruments.com
https://www.staibinstruments.com/
Friday, 31 March 2017
Towards printable solar cells
New perovskite solar cells have achieved an efficiency of 20.1 per cent and can be manufactured at low temperatures, which reduces the cost and expands the number of possible applications.
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Big spenders
Worldwide R&D expenditures and other science and technology indicators by ranked country.
Monday, 27 March 2017
Humans fold
An artificial-intelligence program known as Libratus has beaten the world's absolute best human poker players in a 20-day No-Limit Texas Hold'em tournament.
Friday, 24 March 2017
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Aid or accusation?
The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators
Monday, 20 March 2017
Graphene is good for ...?
£120m down, UK.gov finds it's still a long way from commercial potential. Wonder material, not wonder market
Friday, 17 March 2017
Beans mean graphene
A breakthrough by CSIRO-led scientists has made the world’s strongest material more commercially viable, thanks to the humble soybean.
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
iPhone 7 propels Apple to record-shattering sales
Apple sold 5.4 million Macs and 78.3 million iPhones in the last three months of 2016.
Monday, 13 March 2017
Honey, I shrunk the AFM!
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created an atomic force microscope on a chip using MEMS.
Friday, 10 March 2017
Churchill saw great opportunity for exploration in the Solar System
“Are we alone in the Universe?” an essay by a lesser known science writer, Winston Churchill, has just been unearthed.
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Monday, 6 March 2017
Small may be vulnerable
Ever worried about your phone or tablet malfunctioning due to cosmic rays and solar flares? Apparently ‘single-event upsets’ caused by particle impact is a known phenomenon but difficult to characterise in terms of related malfunctions. The semiconductor manufacturers are concerned about this problem potentially getting more serious as the size of the transistors in integrated circuits shrink. Time for a lead lined, concrete case for my laptop?
Friday, 3 March 2017
Small may be dangerous
Further evidence emerged last month on the scale of small plastic particulates in the environment with contamination recorded in tens of thousands of organisms and more than 100 species. As well as the breaking down of larger objects, many cosmetic and cleansing products contain plastic microbeads and clothing releases plastic microfibres during washing. A recent study of mussels and oysters concluded that the average European shellfish consumer has an uptake of 6400 small plastics particles per year.
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Agnotology is the study of ...?
Retraction Watch probably has enough to do dealing with the sedater pace of scientific publications without delving into the high speed, social media festooned, world of fake news. Recent electoral events have not only increased the interest in this topic but also introduced agnotology to a wider audience. Agnotology is the study of ignorance or lack of knowledge. A wider definition being the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly through the dissemination of inaccurate or misleading information. A topic whose time has come?
As Jonathan Swift so aptly wrote back in 1710: “Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believed only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…”
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As Jonathan Swift so aptly wrote back in 1710: “Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believed only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…”
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Wednesday, 1 March 2017
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