The Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a $1.6 million T-32 National Cancer Institute training grant to recruit two outstanding trainees every year with MD and/or PhD degrees and diverse backgrounds in either biochemistry, physics, molecular/cellular/cancer biology, or an engineering/physics discipline.
Jun 10th, 2008
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Using one of the world's most powerful sources of man-made radiation, physicists from UC San Diego, Columbia University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have uncovered new secrets about the properties of graphene.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreUndergraduates at the University of Leicester are on target to design, build and launch a student satellite on a real space mission.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreCommonly used industrial dyes hold the key to advancing the new science of 'spintronics', say researchers working on a new a study.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreA new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreA Canterbury University student whose research into producing ultra-fine, nano fibres was honoured in the 2006 MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards has gone to help develop an electrospinning machine that is being sold to research laboratories around the world.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreThe report of an independent review of social and ethical challenges associated with research into, and the application of, synthetic biology, is published today.
Jun 9th, 2008
Read moreFlexible electronic display technology developed by European researchers has allowed companies on the continent to make inroads in a market dominated by Asian firms.
Jun 9th, 2008
Read moreThe University of Waterloo is breaking ground on a $160-million investment designed to propel the university and the country to the forefront of the science of the very small.
Jun 9th, 2008
Read moreThe principal investigator is Kaveh Heidary and the project title is 'Nanotechnology Infrastructure Development for Education and Research'.
Jun 9th, 2008
Read moreMIT lecturer focuses on flexible photovoltaic materials.
Jun 9th, 2008
Read moreCanada and Chile are exploring ways to extend science and technology cooperation.
Jun 9th, 2008
Read moreMolecular transport across cellular membranes is essential to many of life's processes, for example electrical signaling in nerves, muscles and synapses. Researchers are now mimicking that process with manmade carbon nanotube membranes.
Jun 9th, 2008
Read moreCompanies selling carbon and graphite will be required to submit full health and safety data for the substances under the European Union's stringent new chemical safety laws, amid concerns that their nanotechnology forms may be dangerous to people, E.U. officials said Monday.
Jun 9th, 2008
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Risk assessment performed in tandem with research into beneficial applications will help researchers make better decisions about how nanotechnology is used in the future.
Jun 9th, 2008
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In work that could at the same time impact the delivery of drugs and explain a biological mystery, MIT engineers have created the first synthetic nanoparticles that can penetrate a cell without poking a hole in its protective membrane and killing it.
Jun 9th, 2008
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