A $145-million Federal Government effort to harness the power of nanotechnology to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer is producing innovations that will radically improve care for the disease. That's the conclusion of an update on the status of the program.
Apr 28th, 2010
Read moreThe SPEDOC project will create the precursor to future devices for individualized diagnosis and monitoring of cancer therapy, which will allow the illness to be treated in earlier stages and at lower doses, reducing or preventing current secondary effects.
Apr 28th, 2010
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To continue the industry's historical trend of performance scaling, SEMATECH experts reported on integrated approaches to CMOS logic and memory device technology and 3D TSV (through silicon via) manufacturing at the International Symposium on VLSI Technology, System and Applications (VLSI-TSA) on April 26-28, 2010.
Apr 28th, 2010
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With its new molecular beam epitaxy facility, PTB continues to be the only metrology institute to produce primary quantum Hall effect resistance standards.
Apr 28th, 2010
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Researchers have detailed how the operation of their liposome manufacturing technique works - known as COMMAND for COntrolled Microfluidic Mixing And Nanoparticle Determination - in order to maximize its effectiveness.
Apr 28th, 2010
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Using neutron beams and atomic-force microscopes, a team of university researchers working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may have resolved a 10-year-old question about an exotic class of 'artificial muscles' - how do they work?
Apr 28th, 2010
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the first 'dimmer switch' for a superconducting circuit linking a quantum bit (qubit) and a quantum bus - promising technologies for storing and transporting information in future quantum computers.
Apr 28th, 2010
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Scientists at the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed a green catalytic cycle that could help solve some of the world's biggest challenges - global warming and renewable energy .
Apr 28th, 2010
Read moreThe interfaces of complex oxides can show unexpected characteristics distinct from the bulk materials. A targeted manipulation of these properties could yield electronics components with tailored functionalities.
Apr 28th, 2010
Read moreThe hands of a clock tell the whole story. Technical factors place limits on the precision of the reading. For physicists, so-called shot noise also imposes such a limit. It occurs for example when electric current has to overcome a barrier. At present, all precision measurements work close to this limit. Physicists from Heidelberg University have now demonstrated that this limit can be surpassed by drawing on concepts from quantum mechanics.
Apr 28th, 2010
Read moreChanges to traditional labour models have reduced some risks in the workplace but created new ones that have yet to be fully understood, according to a new study released Tuesday by the International Labour Organization.
Apr 28th, 2010
Read moreA new low-cost method for the removal of agricultural pesticides from water by titanium dioxide photocatalyst was introduced by researchers at University of Tabriz.
Apr 28th, 2010
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Using a pair of exotic techniques including a molecular-scale version of ice fishing, a team of researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed methods to measure accurately the length of nanopores, the miniscule channels found in cell membranes.
Apr 28th, 2010
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that atomic scale moire patterns, an interference pattern that appears when two or more grids are overlaid slightly askew, can be used to measure how sheets of graphene are stacked and reveal areas of strain.
Apr 28th, 2010
Read moreNew report calls for citizen participation to inform decision-making on science and technology.
Apr 28th, 2010
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But it's not all that computing power that's driving three Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers as they develop computational chemistry at the petascale. Driving their project is the ability to run complex calculations and do better science.
Apr 28th, 2010
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