Researchers show how cell motor proteins 'walk'
MIT researchers have shown how a cell motor protein exerts the force to move, enabling functions such as cell division.
Nov 24th, 2008
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Organic spintronics and the future of data storage
Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players, thanks to an exciting new field of research called ?organic spintronics?.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreCleantech likely to be the sixth technology revolution
Energy concerns will not disappear despite the falling price of oil, so investors can expect significant long-term opportunities in the cleantech space, according to a new thematic report published by Steven Milunovich, Merrill Lynch cleantech strategist.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreGordon Bell Prize awarded for research into the energy harnessing potential of nanostructures
A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy?s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has won a prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for special achievement in high performance computing for their research into the energy harnessing potential of nanostructures.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreNew Russian nanotechnology center at Moscow State University planned
A delegation of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) headed by Director General Anatoly Chubais visited the Moscow State University (MSU) to see laboratories specializing in the field of nanotechnologies and reached a preliminary agreement on the creation of a center for nanotechnologies.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreUC Berkeley awarded $11 million for new Center for Integrated Precision and Quantum Measurement
The grant is for the build-out and outfitting of a Center for Integrated Precision and Quantum Measurement (CIPQM), part of a larger project to construct a new building for the school's physics and astronomy departments.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreThe 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.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreNew 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.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreThe 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.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreSecond 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.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreNew 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.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreNanoparticle-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.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreNanoscale 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.
Nov 23rd, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology 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.
Nov 23rd, 2008
Read moreExperiments 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.
Nov 23rd, 2008
Read moreScienists 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.
Nov 23rd, 2008
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