A 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
Read moreResearchers at the Department of Energy's Advanced Light Source, from DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at San Diego, have measured the extraordinary properties of graphene with an accuracy never before achieved.
Jun 8th, 2008
Read morePacific Northwest National Lab reports on the performance of Isotron Corporation's radionuclide fixative coating for its long-term effectiveness in preventing the spread of radiation as a result of a dirty bomb attack.
Jun 7th, 2008
Read moreAll over Europe, innovations are seen as key sources of competitiveness and social wellbeing. This has created the need to evaluate and develop the management of innovation policies, conclude new study commissioned by the VISION Era-Net consortium.
Jun 6th, 2008
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Technology-development studies at Cornell University and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination of everything from human proteins to forged art.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreAn international team of physicists has entangled three diamond nuclei for the first time. The development promotes solid-state systems to a rank of quantum systems including ions and photons that have achieved entanglement for more than two particles.
Jun 6th, 2008
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