A single semiconductor laser chip with world-record wavelength tuning range of 200 nanometers - from 500 to 700 nanometers - has been demonstrated by a research team at Arizona State University.
Feb 15th, 2009
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The promise of nanotechnology, a Dutch scientist says, is it could allow re-engineering ingredients to bring healthy nutrients more efficiently to the body while allowing less-desirable components to pass on through.
Feb 14th, 2009
Read moreResearchers in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University have an interesting approach for tackling some major health problems: gather raw materials and then let them self-assemble into structures that can address a multitude of medical needs.
Feb 14th, 2009
Read moreThe smallest nano-sized silica particles used in biomedicine and engineering likely won't cause unexpected biological responses due to their size, according to work presented today.
Feb 14th, 2009
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A few years ago, with funding from the Office of Naval Research, Eric Paterson, a senior research associate at Penn State?s Applied Research Lab and an associate professor of mechanical engineering, decided to go back to the source, studying the fundamental fluid mechanics and odorant transport of canine olfaction with the object of coming up with a better mechanical equivalent.
Feb 13th, 2009
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Could hamsters help solve the world's energy crisis? Probably not, but a hamster wearing a power-generating jacket is doing its own small part to provide a new and renewable source of electricity.
Feb 13th, 2009
Read moreA team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer.
Feb 13th, 2009
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Wissenschaftler in der Schweiz haben eeinen neuartigen Atomwuerfel entdeckt. Dieser besteht aus fuenf Silizium-Atomen, die zusammen ein Herz bilden.
Feb 13th, 2009
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Pushing the envelope of Albert Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', known as entanglement, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a 'quantum buffer', a technique that could be used to control the data flow inside a quantum computer.
Feb 13th, 2009
Read moreScientists in China successfully extended quantum memory to miliseconds.
Feb 13th, 2009
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A team of scientists in Japan has demonstrated the possibility of switching the magnetization of a thin magnetic film with a non-conventional and innovative method, achieving a considerable step forward in magnetic data storage and the field known as spintronics.
Feb 13th, 2009
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Two RIKEN researchers have developed a switch to control the formation and separation of DNA duplexes that may have implications in many biological processes, such as gene regulation.
Feb 13th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute and faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, reveal for the first time the three-dimensional character of DNA nanotubules, rings and spirals.
Feb 12th, 2009
Read moreResearchers succeeded for the first time in directly measuring the spin of electrons in a material that exhibits the quantum spin Hall effect, which was theoretically predicted in 2004 and first observed in 2007.
Feb 12th, 2009
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How many different sudokus are there? How many different ways are there to color in the countries on a map? And how do atoms behave in a solid? Researchers have now developed a new method that quickly provides an answer to these questions.
Feb 12th, 2009
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The ink, composed of silver nanoparticles, can be used in electronic and optoelectronic applications to create flexible, stretchable and spanning microelectrodes that carry signals from one circuit element to another.
Feb 12th, 2009
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