Solar Academy - Elementary school education program teaches students about environmental issues and eco-conscious behavior
Sharp today announces the U.S. launch of Sharp Solar Academy, a unique environmental education program designed to empower today?s youth with the knowledge to change and improve their environmental future.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreNew center at Georgia Tech to study graphene as potential silicon successor
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to the Georgia Institute of Technology to create a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) - The Georgia Tech Laboratory for New Electronic Materials.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreSEMI outlines vision for the global photovoltaics industry in new white paper
The SEMI PV Group today announced the publication of a White Paper that details a strong future vision for the PV industry, presenting strategies the industry can implement now to help ensure a sustainable and profitable growth.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology fountain pen used to rapidly write protein arrays
A team of researchers at Northwestern University has demonstrated the ability to rapidly write nanoscale protein arrays using a tool they call the nanofountain probe (NFP).
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreCantilevers bend over for drug detection
Arrays of flexible microcantilevers - micrometre-thin diving boards - can be used as sensors to detect binding interactions between drugs and their targets, a team of international scientists has shown.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreNIH award helps fund study of treatments using magnetic nanoparticles
If one could deliver magnetic, cancer-fighting drugs directly to tumors - and if one could keep the drugs in place at the tumor sites with magnets - one could avoid some of the side-effects of giving people cancer drugs that end up distributed through their entire body.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read morePolynet: Network of excellence for the exploitation of organic and large area electronics
The NoE PolyNet (Network of Excellence for the Exploitation of Organic and Large Area Electronics / OLAE) aims to establish Europe in the OLAE area as the world leader in science, technology development and subsequent commercial exploitation of printing and large area technologies for heterointegration of flexible electronics.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreIMEC demonstrates 3D stacked integrated circuits
IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute today announced that it has made significant progress with its 3D-SIC (3D stacked IC) technology.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreVenture Lab Competition won by student entrepreneurs focused on energy and health sciences
Eighteen semifinalist teams competed on the UC Berkeley (UCB) campus October 2 for four first prizes, each including $10,000 cash, $2,000 in supplies, mentoring from experts, and a space in the new Venture Lab housed in the College of Engineering.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreCan genetic information be controlled by light?
Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences.
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreChemist Svile Bobev receives ACA Early Career Award for crystallographic research
Svilen Bobev, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive the 2009 Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA).
Posted: Oct 13th, 2008
Read moreWorkshop on environmental nanoparticles on November 10-11
The University of Delaware will host 'Environmental Nanoparticles: Science, Ethics and Policy' on Nov. 10-11 at the John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center in Newark, Del. The registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 20.
Posted: Oct 12th, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology boosts war on superbugs
This week Nature Nanotechnology journal (October 12th) reveals how scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to investigate the workings of vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics that can be used to combat increasingly resistant infections such as MRSA.
Posted: Oct 12th, 2008
Read moreInternational photo exhibitions includes nanotechnology images
Acclaimed scientists and photographers from around the world will share their scientific research, discoveries and observations of natural wonders in an international photography exhibition opening today. The Rochester Institute's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences will host Images from Science 2 featuring 61 photographs from various scientific disciplines including astronomy, biology, engineering, medicine, oceanography, physics and nanotechnology.
Posted: Oct 11th, 2008
Read moreNew instrument puts new spin on superconducting materials
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that?s used a brand new instrument at the DOE?s Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the 'hottest' new find in the race to explain and develop superconducting materials.
Posted: Oct 10th, 2008
Read moreCenter for Nanotechnology in Society helps land $24m center to study nanotechnology environmental impacts
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB) helped to win the new University of California Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), a five-year, $24 million center co-funded by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency to study the environmental impacts of nanotechnology.
Posted: Oct 10th, 2008
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