Could nanotechnology help protect the world's environment or may it be another thorn on our ailing rose? Join the fall Nano Cafe on Oct. 23 to explore Nanotechnology and the Environment.
Sep 18th, 2007
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Advance in creating inexpensive polarized light may lead to better displays on laptop computers, cell phones and other devices.
Sep 18th, 2007
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A provision in the competitiveness legislation that President Bush signed in August deletes the Commerce Department agency charged with bringing U.S. innovation from laboratories to the marketplace.
Sep 17th, 2007
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A team from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes.
Sep 17th, 2007
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Podcast explores how nanotechnology can help capture and store the sun's energy.
Sep 17th, 2007
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For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real-time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus.
Sep 17th, 2007
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Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction of the cost of current vaccine technologies.
Sep 17th, 2007
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Scientists have have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives, all using less power and space than current memory technologies.
Sep 17th, 2007
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For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of engineers has discovered a new material that could significantly increase this success rate.
Sep 17th, 2007
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A new $2.9 million graduate student training program at Cornell, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will help bridge the problematic gap among various scientific disciplines, in an effort to solve common problems a range of scientists face.
Sep 17th, 2007
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Physicists have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."
Sep 15th, 2007
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Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato is a special project whereby the three Italian Technical Universities, the Polytechnic of Torino, the Polytechnic of Bari and the Polytechnic of Milano, aim to offering a joint PhD program of high qualification in the areas that the three Polytechnics consider strategic.
Sep 14th, 2007
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Greek Transport Institute IMET at the National Center for Research and Technology Development in Thessaloniki is working on a smart system that will be able to monitor alertness levels in drivers, recognize symptoms of sleepiness and give drivers a wake-up call.
Sep 14th, 2007
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The Department of Toxic Substances Control of California is hosting their second Nanotechnology Symposium to be held on October 3, 2007 in Sacramento, California from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM.
Sep 14th, 2007
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This week, the inventor of the KillaCycle almost killed himself during a demonstration at the Wired NextFest conference.
Sep 14th, 2007
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Research shows graphene, a thin sheet of carbon atoms, has good potential to supplement or replace silicon as an electronic material.
Sep 14th, 2007
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