Applications are now being accepted for Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology's summer 2010 International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program. Both undergraduate and graduate positions are available. Application deadline is March 19, 2010.
Mar 1st, 2010
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Microelectromechanical devices gave us the Wii and the digital projector. MIT researchers have found a way to manufacture them by stamping them on plastic, opening up the possibility of coating large areas with tiny sensors.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreScientists in Manchester have found a clean and green way of making tiny magnets for high tech gadgets - using natural bacteria that have been around for millions of years.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreThe TRAMS project aims to guarantee that the memory for future nanoscale processors, with teraflop capacity, is resilient, reliable, fault tolerant, and energy efficient, with advanced features.
Mar 1st, 2010
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Researchers have demonstrated that the molecules in cell membranes move in a flowing motion rather than chaotically, as previously thought.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreGerman and US researchers have produced a super-sharp, strong, and resilient carbon tip that has earned top place as the industry's current benchmark.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreThe leading UK nanotechnology event, focused on commercialization of nanomaterials, will take place on 8-10 June 2010 at the Hotel Russell in London, UK.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreAn imaging technique combining ultrasound and specially modified contrast agents may allow researchers to noninvasively detect cancer and show its progression.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreNanoparticles are atmospheric materials so small that they can't be seen with the naked eye, but they can very visibly affect both weather patterns and human health all over the world - and not in a good way, according to a new study.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreMIT neuroscientists have designed a new MRI sensor that responds to the neurotransmitter dopamine, an achievement that may significantly improve the specificity and resolution of future brain imaging procedures.
Mar 1st, 2010
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Heat helps in low power data storage scheme.
Mar 1st, 2010
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Another decisive step forward in the development of quantum computers has been successful. For the first time ever, researchers have accomplished to place two nitrogen atoms in a distance of only few nanometers, so that laser excitation will be capable of creating a quantum mechanical coupling.
Mar 1st, 2010
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Microorganisms are everywhere and most of them are harmless, but they can do a lot of damage in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or in tissue transplants. With the aid of a new device, germs can be detected in artificial cartilage within a few hours.
Mar 1st, 2010
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The companies and institutes involved from industry and research have set themselves the goal of mass producing pressure and temperature sensors which can be cheaply printed onto plastic film and flexibly affixed to a wide range of everyday objects, such as electronic equipment.
Mar 1st, 2010
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Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.
Mar 1st, 2010
Read moreA breakthrough approach by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their collaborators in fabricating thin films of a new superconducting material has yielded promising results: The material has a current-carrying potential 500 times that of previous experiments, making it significant for a variety of practical applications.
Mar 1st, 2010
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