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The Hastings Center and National University of Singapore join forces in bioethics scholarship and launch new journal

The Hastings Center and the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore have announced a collaboration aimed at expanding bioethics scholarship in Asia.

November 24, 2008 Read more

New MIT research boosts the power of solar cells

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

November 24, 2008 Read more

The pace of materials science and nanotechnology publishing is accelerating

Wiley-Blackwell today announced that it will double the publishing frequencies of its leading materials science journal Advanced Materials and its leading nanoscience journal Small in 2009.

November 24, 2008 Read more

Second Bangalore Nanotechnology Conference to showcase business plans and start-ups

About 10 individuals / organizations will be offered an opportunity to make 10 minutes podium presentations on their research ideas and business plans, followed by one-to-one business meetings.

November 24, 2008 Read more

New nanotechnology focus group for the food and drink industry

Leatherhead Food International and the Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) have teamed up to launch a focus group to promote and develop a dialogue between the Government and the Food Industry to concentrate on the role of emerging micro- and nanotechnologies in food, drink and pharmafood applications.

November 24, 2008 Read more

Nanoparticle-coated polymer could create self healing paints and clever packaging

Research chemists at the University of Warwick have devised an elegant process which simply and cheaply covers small particles of polymer with a layer of silica-based nanoparticles.

November 24, 2008 Read more

Nanoscale footballs made with boron atoms

A possible recipe for building a variety of nanoscale 'footballs' with boron, an element just next to carbon in the periodic table, has been proposed by researchers in China.

November 23, 2008 Read more

Nanotechnology a focus of consumer health protection in Germany

In which foods and products are nanoparticles used? In what ways do consumers come into contact with nanoparticles? Does this lead to health risks? How can they be assessed? What information do consumers need about nanotechnologies? At the sixth BfR Consumer Protection Forum at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin the list of questions from the 200 participants to be addressed was long.

November 23, 2008 Read more

Experiments show processes in magnetic data reading devices

Researchers have, for the first time, tracked the magnetic processes going on within a hard-drive read head - similar to the heads that read the data off computer hard discs.

November 23, 2008 Read more

Scienists may have found an easier way for making an invisibility cloak

Two physicists may have found an easier way to make things invisible. Cloaking devices, which are a form of advanced stealth technology, are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek. So far all methods for invisibility require exotic materials and would only work at certain colours of light.

November 23, 2008 Read more

Chemist predicts collapse of helium's chemical nobility

140 years since its discovery, and despite the best endeavours of many scientists, helium, the lightest of the 'noble' gases, still stubbornly refuses to enter into any chemical alliance. Now a new glimmer of hope has emerged as a chemist has calculated that two new compounds containing a helium-oxygen bond could be formed.

November 23, 2008 Read more

University of Warsaw offers new international nanotechnology-related PhD program

A new International PhD program - supported by the Polish Foundation of Science - is offered by the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw.

November 23, 2008 Read more

Handheld nanotechnology device detects cocaine, marijuana in saliva

Royal Philips Electronics has developed a handheld device that uses nanotechnology to detect marijuana, cocaine, Speed and other drugs in saliva within 2 minutes.

November 22, 2008 Read more

Animations bring nanotechnology to life

Just as artists at Disney and Pixar Animation Studios bring Mickey Mouse, Shrek and Nemo to life, life science artists are using animation to bring viruses, bacteria and even nanowires to life and demystify scientific concepts.

November 22, 2008 Read more

EU study confirms the Standard Model of particle physics

An EU-funded study by physicists in Germany, France and Hungary has demonstrated conclusively that the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory describing the fundamental interactions of the elementary particles that make up all visible matter in the universe, accurately accounts for the mass of protons and neutrons.

November 22, 2008 Read more

James Tour's graphene device may make massive storage practical

A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, cell phones and cameras.

November 21, 2008 Read more