While our direct knowledge of black holes in the universe is limited to what we can observe from thousands or millions of light years away, a team of Chinese physicists has proposed a simple way to design an artificial electromagnetic (EM) black hole in the laboratory.
Nov 16th, 2010
Read moreIn a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them 'chaogates'. Simply put, they used chaotic patterns to encode and manipulate inputs to produce a desired output.
Nov 16th, 2010
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New stamp-sized microchip enables low-cost screening of a library of artificial viruses.
Nov 16th, 2010
Read moreNon-invasive, inhalable powder increases survival rates.
Nov 16th, 2010
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Sheng Dai, a researcher in the Chemical Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has earned the UT-Battelle Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology. He was honored for world-class leadership in the synthesis and application of novel functional porous materials, nanomaterials and ionic liquids to energy-relevant problems.
Nov 16th, 2010
Read moreWhile a range of ingenious man-made materials bring us ever closer to realising the possibility of cloaking objects from visible light, research from Imperial College London is now taking invisibility into the fourth dimension - time - creating the groundbreaking potential to hide whole events.
Nov 16th, 2010
Read moreMore than 300 elementary, middle- and high-school students from throughout Tech Valley received a firsthand look at careers in the emerging field of nanotechnology when they visited the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany for NanoCareer Day on November 15.
Nov 15th, 2010
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University of California, San Diego NanoEngineers won a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop the tools to manufacture biodegradable frames around which heart tissues - functional blood vessels included - will grow.
Nov 15th, 2010
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have begun to use molecular 'stencils' to pave the way to new materials that could potentially find their way into future generations of solar cells, catalysts and photonic crystals.
Nov 15th, 2010
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Ultra-short X-ray beams produced at the University of Michigan could one day serve as more sensitive medical diagnostic tools, and they could work like strobe lights to allow researchers to observe chemical reactions that happen in quadrillionths of a second.
Nov 15th, 2010
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University of Illinois researchers are using a new kind of microsensor to answer one of the weightiest questions in biology - the relationship between cell mass and growth rate.
Nov 15th, 2010
Read moreEach year, five outstanding women scientists - one per continent - are honoured for the contributions of their research, the strength of their commitments and their impact on society. With the Marie Curie Nobel Centenary being celebrated in 2011, this year the For Women in Science Programme has a particularly strong resonance, placing women and chemistry at the heart of science today.
Nov 15th, 2010
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A new water filter developed in South Africa could provide millions of people with clean drinking water. The filter, about the size and shape of a teabag, would be inexpensive, easy to distribute and simple to use.
Nov 15th, 2010
Read moreEuropean health technology clusters in Leuven (Belgium) and Heidelberg (Germany) form new alliance to cross-leverage their innovation resources.
Nov 15th, 2010
Read moreIn December, ICPC NanoNet offers two free online worksops on Nanotechnology for Solar Energy: 6 December and 20 December.
Nov 15th, 2010
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Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that's 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks. EPFL Professor Mathias Klaui is working on a new kind of 'Racetrack' memory, a high-volume, ultra-rapid non-volatile read-write magnetic memory that may soon make such a creature possible.
Nov 15th, 2010
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