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The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust and Flinn Foundation launch
Nobel Laureate Dr. Lee Hartwell, TGen and the Biodesign Institute at ASU to lead Arizona-based global effort to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
Oct 17th, 2007
Read moreLennart Nilsson Award 2007: Felice Frankel selected for crystal-clear scientific images
Felice Frankel, a scientific imagist and researcher at Harvard University's Initiative in Innovative Computing, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Lennart Nilsson Award.
Oct 17th, 2007
Read moreDevelopment of fluorescent organic nanotubes
Researchers in Japan have developed organic nanotubes that generate fluorescence by embedding fluorescent molecules in the membrane wall of organic nanotubes.
Oct 17th, 2007
Read moreToward world's smallest radio: nano-sized detector turns radio waves into music
Researchers in California today (Oct. 17) report development of the world's first working radio system that receives radio waves wirelessly and converts them to sound signals through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes.
Oct 17th, 2007
Read moreThe Global Language Monitor releases global study of top 10 most confusing yet widely used high tech buzzwords for 2007
The Global Language Monitor has found the most confusing yet frequently cited high tech buzzwords in 2007 to be iPOD, Flash, Cookie, Nano and Kernel followed by Megahertz, Cell (cell as in cell phone), Plasma, De-duplication, and Blu-Ray.
Oct 17th, 2007
Read moreLook, Ma, no batteries: Powering nanoelectronics with light
Scientists have developed solar cells 200 hundred times thinner than a human hair that they believe will power the nanoscale gadgetry of tomorrow.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreResearchers measure carbon nanotube interaction
Researchers for the first time have been able to measure a specific interaction for a single functional group with carbon nanotubes using chemical force microscopy.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreExperts discussed issues of nanotechnology risk management
Experts from government, academia, consulting companies, non-profit organizations and industry convened at NanoTX 07 earlier this month to discuss issues of nanotechnology risk management.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read morePublic talk on how videogames affect social perceptions of nanotechnologies
'Digital Matters: Video Games and the Cultural Transcoding of Nanotechnology,' will explore the cross-traffic between nanotechnologies and video games and how gamers' perceptions and knowledge of nanotechnologies may be influenced by the games�?? narratives and images.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreNew nanotechnology wastewater treatment system for removing heavy metals
Resulting from the combination of water treatment investigations with the latest in material science, a new type of nanomaterial called nanostructured silica has been found to detect and eliminate toxic contaminants from wastewaters in efficient and economically viable ways.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreGold nanorods shed light on new approach to fighting cancer
Researchers have shown how tiny 'nanorods' of gold can be triggered by a laser beam to blast holes in the membranes of tumor cells, setting in motion a complex biochemical mechanism that leads to a tumor cell's self-destruction.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreBouncing bucky balls
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreNovel gate dielectric materials: perfection is not enough
For the first time theoretical modeling has provided a glimpse into how promising dielectric materials are able to trap charges, something which may affect the performance of advanced electronic devices.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreIBM scientists create method to measure the performance of carbon nanotubes as building blocks for ultra tiny computer chips of the future
IBM scientists announced that they have measured the distribution of electrical charges in tubes of carbon that measure less than 2 nanometers in diameter.
Oct 16th, 2007
Read moreMedical nanoimaging pinpoints cause of cataracts
At the Institut Curie, Simon Scheuring has for the first time observed a diseased tissue at very high resolution using atomic force microscopy (AFM). By studying the membranes of cells in a patient's eye cataract, Scheuring has discovered the molecular cause of this disease.
Oct 15th, 2007
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