WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Digital Imagery Pioneers Were Also Sailors Navy veteran George E. Smith and Willard S. Boyle shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1969 invention of the light-sensitive charge-coupled device, which made digital imagery possible.  In a CCD image sensor, pixels are represented by p-doped metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors. These MOS capacitors produce images when incoming photons are converted i  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA Stops Contaminated Water by Slaughterhouse After Public Complaints in Monroeville, NJ * Monroeville, N.J. - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) collaborated with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to respond to public concerns about crimson-colored discharge flowing from a Monroeville slaughterhouse into a nearby tributary used for farming and livestock. EPA in  more