Somenath Mitra, along with researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has developed a potentially cheap solar technology which can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. The benefits could be enormous to the consumer, producer, and the environment.
Jan 18th, 2008
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Scientists at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) have signed a deal with a private investment firm to develop and market 'nanomachines' to treat cancer. The mechanised nanoparticles include tiny valves and impellers to help release chemotherapy drugs exactly where they are needed - reducing their side-effects and boosting the effectiveness of the treatments.
Jan 18th, 2008
Read moreScientific studies on climate change, energy and alternative fuels are among the 30 projects awarded more than 145 million processing hours on supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
Jan 17th, 2008
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Patients prone to heart disease may one day be told by physicians to avoid not only fatty foods and smoking but air pollution too. A new academic study led by UCLA researchers has revealed that the smallest particles from vehicle emissions may be the most damaging components of air pollution in triggering plaque buildup in the arteries, which can lead to heart attack and stroke.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreHealth 2.0 Northeast kicks-off event series on Jan. 23rd in Cambridge with Healthcare, Web 2.0 and social networking leaders.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreOn Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 2:00 pm. in SD-366, the Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus will host a briefing entitled: 'Nanotechnology and Innovation, Commercialization, and Prize Competitions.'
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreAccording to a report published today by NorTech and the Nano-Network, Ohio exhibits significant strengths in nanotechnology research, development, commercialization and entrepreneurship; and Northeast Ohio, in particular, is a leader in nanotech innovation. Through better cross-pollination of Ohio's regions and sectors, the State has the potential to become an even greater national player in nanotechnology.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreMovie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes - visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreScientists have used new optical technologies to observe interactions in nanoscale systems that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle usually would prohibit.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreScience fiction author Kathleen Ann Goonan was writing about nanotechnology before most people even know it existed. Her Nanotech Quartet, including her celebrated first novel Queen City Jazz, is about a future United States where nanotech has gone wild and turned cities into living entities - and reprogrammed people to reenact scenarios from US history and literature.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreAn article in TechNewsWorld questions whether the super-cities and hyperstructures under consideration today really new and improved ways for man to exist?
Jan 17th, 2008
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Scientists have discovered a way of speeding up the production of hollow-core optical fibres - a new generation of optical fibres that could lead to faster and more powerful computing and telecommunications technologies.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreA German company is the latest international technology firm to set up shop at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
Jan 17th, 2008
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The phrase 'sex sells' takes on special significance when scientists and students gather. While nature's showiest subjects step out to promote reproductive success and survival with bright colors, flash and iridescence in feathers, scales, petals and wings, biologists, physicists, behaviorists and materials scientists will delve into what�??s behind all the bling at a workshop on 'Iridescence' to be held Feb. 6-9 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreWithin the next month, a panel of advisers to the Department of Public Health in Cambridge will deliver a set of recommendations to the City Council on how to deal with nanotechnology firms operating inside the city's boundaries.
Jan 17th, 2008
Read moreWhile undergraduate students may think that the University of Alberta emphasizes research over teaching, those in research say that�??s not the case, arguing that good teaching needs good research programs.
Jan 17th, 2008
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