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Quest to study mysterious properties of neutrinos spans the world
In the quest to better understand one of nature's most 'ghostly' elementary particles - the neutrino - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from the mines of Canada to the mountains of China.
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New $100k endowment at UAlbany NanoCollege
Katherine Belz Groves Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Nanoscale Science will support innovative education and research for a graduate student at CNSE.
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Nanomaterials are one focus of the 2009 material design competition for design students
The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) has launched its fourth annual Materials Design Competition, developed by its Materials Interest Group.
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Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a fast, inexpensive and effective method for evaluating the sugars pharmaceutical companies use to stabilize protein-drugs for storage at room temperature.
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Researchers fine-tune the behavior of quantum dots with lasers
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the University of Maryland and NIST, have reported a new way to fine-tune the light coming from quantum dots by manipulating them with pairs of lasers.
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European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine meeting in Spain
The next annual meeting of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN) will be held in Madrid, Spain, on 25 and 26 September.
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Light finds a way - even through white paint
By shaping the waveform of light, they have succeeded in finding the predicted 'open channels' in material along which the light is able to move.
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Nanotechnology is moving from the lab to the field
At the sixth NanoEurope 2008, which will be held in St.Gallen on September 16 and 17, the potential offered by nanotechnology will become evident.
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Nanotechnologie schafft den Weg vom Labor in die Praxis
An der sechsten NanoEurope 2008, die am 16. und 17. September in St.Gallen stattfindet, zeigt sich das Potenzial der Nanotechnologie deutlich.
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Nanomaterials - an environmental pandora's box?
A special open-access issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry examines the issues surrounding nanoparticles and their impact on environemnt and health.
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Controlling the size of nanoclusters
Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society?s national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed using a new instrument at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Optical computing moves closer to reality
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the speed of light by altering the particle shape.
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Chemist designs new 'catch-and-tell' molecules
The discovery is based on previous pioneering research by Professor De Silva and his colleagues at Queen?s, which created ?catch and tell? sensor molecules that send out light signals when they catch chemicals in blood.
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Energieeffizienz durch Mikro- und Nanotechnologie
Energieeffizienz, eines der aktuell bedeutsamsten Themen fuer Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, wird von Mikro- und Nanotechnik-Experten auf der MST-Regionalkonferenz NRW 2008 am 27. Oktober in Dortmund diskutiert.
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Modified DNA helps scientists understand secrets of DNA repair mechanisms
A modified DNA is helping scientists to understand the sophisticated DNA repair mechanisms that allow dormant bacteria to come 'back to life'.
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New developments in microscopy to be discussed this week in Ireland
Leaders in the field of microscopy from across Ireland will meet at Queen?s University Belfast this week to discuss exciting new developments in technology which could have a huge impact on public health.
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