Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time captured elusive nanoscale movements of ribosomes at work, shedding light on how these cellular factories take in genetic instructions and amino acids to churn out proteins.
Aug 21st, 2009
Read moreOnly a few days after the release of the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) '2009 Sunscreen Investigation' report, a coalition of public interest groups including Friends of the Earth (FoE), Consumers Union and the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) have taken position in the highly controversial debate about the safety of sunscreens containing manufactured nanomaterials.
Aug 21st, 2009
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Es ist der Traum vieler Materialwissenschaftler: ein Materialsystem, das die Vorteile von magnetischen Metallen (dauerhafte Informationsspeicherung) mit denen von Halbleitern (ultraschnelle Informationsverarbeitung) vereint.
Aug 21st, 2009
Read moreThe Lieberose Solar Farm is not only the leader in terms of size and capacity, but will also serve as a model project for the renaturalization of former military sites.
Aug 21st, 2009
Read moreStubborn layers of paint had kept them hidden for several decades, but the bluish, purplish and reddish hues of a 1919 painting by 20th-century artist N.C. Wyeth have finally come to light, thanks to cutting-edge technologies developed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
Aug 21st, 2009
Read moreThe City of South Bend has reiterated its vow to support commercialization of nanoelectronics research emanating from the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND).
Aug 21st, 2009
Read moreA new project to speed up the transfer of groundbreaking research and development from the North West Laser Engineering Consortium (NWLEC) to Northwest businesses has been given the go ahead following the confirmation of an 882,000 pound investment from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Aug 21st, 2009
Read moreA new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies.
Aug 20th, 2009
Read moreA research team has found a way to use photons to manipulate the magnetism of semiconductor nanocrystals efficiently, even up to room temperature.
Aug 20th, 2009
Read moreThe research underpinning this new book was intended to better enable an informed national debate and to affect international debate on the potential role and impact of nanotechnology and emerging science on national defense and homeland security.
Aug 20th, 2009
Read moreFor the first time this September Oakland Community College will offer courses in its new associate of applied science degree in the cutting-edge field of nanotechnology at the Auburn Hills Campus.
Aug 20th, 2009
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Professor Paul O'Brien and his research team in the School of Chemistry at The University of Manchester are joining forces with Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd, a Japan based manufacturer, to form a new research collaboration.
Aug 20th, 2009
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In future, it will be possible to detect malignant tumors more rapidly and more reliably - with instruments that combine magnetic resonance tomography and positron emission tomography, two conventional methods in medical diagnostics.
Aug 20th, 2009
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From superfluid to Mott insulator, density profiles of ultracold atomic gases reveal secrets of quantum phase transitions.
Aug 20th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have destroyed prostate cancer tumors in mice by injecting them with specially-coated, miniscule carbon tubes and then superheating the tubes with a brief zap of a laser.
Aug 20th, 2009
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The funding will allow the ALS - one of the world's brightest sources of ultraviolet and soft x-ray beams - to upgrade its facilities and maintain its position at the cutting edge of soft x-ray science.
Aug 20th, 2009
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