European companies are not fully complying with new EU regulation on chemicals (REACH), says the executive director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Geert Dancet.
May 6th, 2009
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Using a miniaturized measuring system, performance and leisure athletes will in future be able to monitor their lactate readings themselves - including during training.
May 6th, 2009
Read moreThe 15th Annual World Micromachine Summit is an international forum to discuss initiatives in micromachining and nano technologies and the way in which they deliver economic and social outcomes.
May 6th, 2009
Read moreIn a hearing held yesterday in the U.K. House of Lords, Professor Ken Donaldson from the University of Edinburgh and Dr Qasim Chaudhry from the Food and Environment Research Agency presented evidence to the Select Committee on Nanotechnologies in Food.
May 6th, 2009
Read moreVom 12. bis 13. Mai 2009 findet in Wittenberg ein internationales Symposium zum Thema 'Schichtartige Nanostrukturen: Polymere mit verbesserten Eigenschaften' statt.
May 6th, 2009
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Sandia expects to become home to one of 46 new multimillion-dollar centers, be a significant partner in three others, and may be involved in another four.
May 5th, 2009
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Photovoltaic power generation grew by 73 percent between 2007-08, making it the fastest growing source of alternative energy, Monica Oliphant, president of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), said upon her arrival in Delaware from Australia to attend the 2009 Karl Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit ceremony at the University of Delaware on Thursday, May 7.
May 5th, 2009
Read moreHow did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known?
May 5th, 2009
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The University of Arizona in Tucson will become the home of a $15 million Energy Frontier Research Center, or EFRC, one of 46 new centers of its kind announced this week
May 5th, 2009
Read moreEmory researchers have created tools for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by attaching a molecule that binds specifically to pancreatic cancer cells to tiny nanoparticles made of iron oxide.
May 5th, 2009
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Princeton University will be home to a new $20 million energy research center for combustion science, as part of a federal initiative to spur discoveries that lay the groundwork for an economy based on clean replacements for fossil fuels.
May 5th, 2009
Read moreOrganized by the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC), this public-private sector forum focuses on the 'how to' of launching, implementing and operating smart grid projects.
May 5th, 2009
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In his office, MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like material, softer than silk, is composed of fibers that are a thousand times thinner than a human hair and holds promise for a wide range of applications including protective clothing, drug delivery and tissue engineering.
May 5th, 2009
Read moreUntil now, extracting as many proteins as possible from biological samples has required a combination of several methods. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have now developed a new universally employable sample preparation method that combines the advantages of the usual methods and allows an unprecedented depth of proteome coverage.
May 5th, 2009
Read moreU.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory researcher John W. Lewellen was recently named a recipient of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) Prize in Accelerator Physics and Technology.
May 5th, 2009
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that the activation energy of impurities in semiconductor nanowires is affected by the surrounding dielectric and can be modified by the choice of the nanowire embedding medium.
May 5th, 2009
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