Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers from four institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming antibiotic-resistant communities called biofilms.
Nov 13th, 2007
Read moreIn the first-ever report of its kind, futurists and analysts at the DC-based research and consulting firm Social Technologies released a series of 12 briefs this month that shed light on the top areas for technology innovation through 2025.
Nov 13th, 2007
Read moreOne of the new programs is is dedicated to the industrial development of nanotechnologies and new materials.
Nov 13th, 2007
Read moreDr. Robert W. Carpick has been appointed Penn Director of the Nanotechnology Institute.
Nov 13th, 2007
Read moreThis debate will allow participants to be informed about, and discuss, two proposed Codes of Conduct concerning nanotechnology research and commercialization.
Nov 13th, 2007
Read moreScientists at the University of Virginia have discovered a new class of hydrogen storage materials that could make the storage and transportation of energy much more efficient - and affordable - through higher-performing hydrogen fuel cells.
Nov 12th, 2007
Read moreThe Surface Science Group in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Aston University has recently purchased two new state-of-the art surface analytical instruments for probing the outer layers of the surfaces of solids.
Nov 12th, 2007
Read moreAn international symposium with the title '...omics and nanotechnology in biomedicine' will take place in Larissa, Greece, on 30 November and 1 December.
Nov 12th, 2007
Read moreResearchers have developed an incredibly versatile micro-scale capsule embedded with nano-sized particles able to enhance real-time visualization with magnetic resonance imaging as well as deliver a powerful therapeutic punch to diseases in animal models.
Nov 12th, 2007
Read moreMEDEA+, a European-wide collaborative research programme centred on microelectronics and part of the EUREKA project, has announced that CATRENE (Cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe) is to be the follow-on programme designed to take electronics into the nanoscale era.
Nov 11th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but in mid-Missouri, the field is quickly becoming recognized as a promising component of the area's technology-driven economic development strategy.
Nov 11th, 2007
Read moreThis book is an attempt to illustrate current status of modern nanotechnology.
Nov 10th, 2007
Read moreScientific advances today are accomplished at the intersections of various fields, according to Frans Johansson's brilliant book, 'The Medici Effect.' Breakthroughs come when disparate disciplines collide in new ways. This innovation is readily seen in nanotechnology, or the creation and use of materials - even machines - at the atomic or molecular scale.
Nov 9th, 2007
Read moreA tiny 'electronic nose' that MIT researchers have engineered with a novel inkjet printing method could be used to detect hazards including carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solvents and explosives.
Nov 9th, 2007
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While fluorescence has long been used to tag biological molecules, a new technology developed at Yale allows researchers to use tiny fluorescent probes to rapidly detect and identify protein interactions within living cells while avoiding the biological disruption of existing methods.
Nov 9th, 2007
Read moreCSIRO has been granted $2 million under the Defence Capability and Technology Demonstrator Program to demonstrate the capabilities of carbon nanotubes as strong, lightweight antiballistic materials.
Nov 9th, 2007
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