TDK-EPC opened its second factory in Málaga, Spain. The new plant for the development and manufacture of power capacitors offers 6000 square meters of production space. A separate building with 1500 square meters of lab and office space houses the research and development activities. After a transitional period of one to two years all of TDK-EPC’s activities in Málaga will be … [Read more...]

Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock and MRI machines, has died. He was 96. Ramsey died in his sleep at a Wayland nursing home on Friday.Ramsey, an emeritus professor of physics at Harvard University and longtime Brookline resident, wrote in his autobiography for the … [Read more...]

Libya’s provisional leaders named an engineer as its new prime minister, taking the first step toward assembling a new transitional government after the killing of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and the formal end to the uprising that ended his nearly 42 years in power.MultimediaLibya’s Transitional National Council’s members voted to name Abdel Rahim el-Keeb as prime minister, whom … [Read more...]