To study the Casimir force, UC Riverside physicists have received funding of $1.6 million for two years from DARPA and SPAWAR.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreScientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreRaising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions).
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreIn a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreRice University physicists have written the next chapter in an innovative approach for studying the forces that shape proteins -- the biochemical workhorses of all living things.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreA team of scientists and researchers is working to find ways the unique molecular properties of DNA can be exploited to sort single-walled structures so they will have the same physicochemical properties.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreThe one-day conference addressed the latest developments and advances in the applications of micro and nanotechnology in food and drink and looked at global regulations and the opportunities and challenges in this area.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreThe National Physical Laboratory in the UK is oranizong two online seminars: 'Sensing Opportunities in the new FP7-NMP call ' and 'Nanosensors: Technology Development, Applications and the Market'.
Aug 6th, 2009
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A new method can quantify the changes in vesicle shape live i.e. during fusion, and with nanoscale resolution.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreThe Nano Korea Symposium will be held in conjunction with Nano Korea Exhibition and Micro Tech World.
Aug 6th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the University of Arizona are chipping away at problems like how to employ solar at the utility-generating plant level, how to harness it to charge the newly indispensable products of the day - cell phones, MP3 players, laptops - what to do at night and when clouds halt the energy giveaway from the sky.
Aug 5th, 2009
Read moreThe International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health is seeking submissions for a special issue provisionally titled, 'Human and Environmental Exposure Assessment for Nanomaterials', guest edited by Vladimir Murashov, PhD, Special Assistant to the Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Aug 5th, 2009
Read moreEPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the draft document 'Nanomaterial Case Studies: Nanoscale Titanium Dioxide in Water Treatment and Topical Sunscreen'.
Aug 5th, 2009
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Scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory combined experimental and theoretical studies to identify the characteristics of the catalyst, a cluster of rhodium, boron and other atoms.
Aug 5th, 2009
Read moreMediSens developing body monitoring systems for diabetes, balance issues.
Aug 5th, 2009
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A new study raises the possibility that flies and other insects that encounter nanomaterial 'hot spots', or spills, near manufacturing facilities in the future could pick up and transport nanoparticles on their bodies, transferring the particles to other flies or habitats in the environment.
Aug 5th, 2009
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