If you love soccer but don't want to wait until the next World Cup in 2010 to satisfy your appetite for the most popular game on Earth, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has the answer - though the nourishment comes in very small bites.
Posted: May 29th, 2008
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown for the first time that a single layer of molecular 'salve' can significantly soothe the stresses affecting clean metal surfaces.
Posted: May 29th, 2008
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Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small it can be seen only through a microscope.
Posted: May 29th, 2008
Read moreUniversity of Queensland researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery that produces highly efficient miniature crystals which could revolutionise the way we harvest and use solar energy.
Posted: May 29th, 2008
Read moreAvik Ghosh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, recently won an internal Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) Distinguished Young Investigator Grant for a research proposal that could ultimately transform transistor technology.
Posted: May 29th, 2008
Read moreINO (the National Optics Institute in Canada) announces the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Bavarian Laser Centre GmbH (BLZ), a research centre in Erlangen, Germany, specializing in photonic microsystems research, development, and production.
Posted: May 29th, 2008
Read moreA monkey has successfully fed itself with fluid, well-controlled movements of a human-like robotic arm by using only signals from its brain, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report in the journal Nature.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
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The five-year, $489,798 grant will support the University of Delaware scientist's research to determine how cells interact with potential drug carriers and how the resulting structural changes of the carrier affect its ability to efficiently deliver its payload.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
Read moreUniversity of Oregon researchers trying to flip the spin of electrons with laser bursts lasting picoseconds instead found a way to manipulate and control the spin - knowledge that may prove useful in a variety of new materials and technologies.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
Read moreSemiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today joined with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to announce funding of $2M in grants for nanoelectronics research at six major NSF centers across seven U.S. universities.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
Read moreThe research scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE will in future be working in close cooperation with the scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT. The new Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems is located in the immediate vicinity of the MIT campus.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
Read morePeptide arrays are powerful tools for developing new medical substances as well as for diagnosis and therapy techniques. A new production method based on laser printing will enable the potential of peptide arrays to be effectively utilized for the first time.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
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Amyloids are not just pathological agents, they are interesting nanomaterials.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
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Researchers in China report the first successful electrospinning of a type of plastic widely used in automobiles and electronics.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
Read moreResearchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
Read moreSeven pioneering scientists who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics have become the first recipients of the million-dollar Kavli prizes.
Posted: May 28th, 2008
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