All over Europe, innovations are seen as key sources of competitiveness and social wellbeing. This has created the need to evaluate and develop the management of innovation policies, conclude new study commissioned by the VISION Era-Net consortium.
Jun 6th, 2008
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Technology-development studies at Cornell University and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination of everything from human proteins to forged art.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreAn international team of physicists has entangled three diamond nuclei for the first time. The development promotes solid-state systems to a rank of quantum systems including ions and photons that have achieved entanglement for more than two particles.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreFor the first time, a team of Dutch, German and South Korean scientists have shown how light can squeeze through any hole regardless of its size using Terahertz (THz) radiation.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreThe June issue of The Bulletin, the monthly magazine of The American Ceramic Society, carries the first news of a never-before-seen class of materials and technology developed by scientists at the Savannah River National Laboratory.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreICAMS, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation, was officially opened today at the Ruhr University in Germany with an inauguration ceremony and podium discussion.
Jun 6th, 2008
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Magnetic sensors are made of thin layers with different magnetic properties. With the help of ion technology, scientists from Dresden were now able to shrink these multilayer systems down to one layer, retaining their magnetic properties.
Jun 6th, 2008
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Using carbon nanotubes, MIT chemical engineers have built the most sensitive electronic detector yet for sensing deadly gases such as the nerve agent sarin.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreDeveloping fundamental math and mechanics to explain life processes like embryo development, cellular migration and growth could open doors to a new frontier in biology, many researchers say.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreYesterday, June 5th, H.R. 5940, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008 passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 407 to 6. H.R. 5940 reauthorizes and refines the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), notably strengthening the commitment to environmental and safety research.
Jun 6th, 2008
Read moreFollowing its official launch on June 1, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has started to accept pre-registrations of chemicals under the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) legislation.
Jun 5th, 2008
Read moreOECD's Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials has launched a 'sponsorship program' in which countries will share the testing of specific nanomaterials at its 3rd meeting in November 2008.
Jun 5th, 2008
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A famous mathematical pattern has inspired the stunning curved sail facade of Bristol University's new GBP11 million Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information.
Jun 5th, 2008
Read moreA new colloidal stabilization method characterized by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may give scientists a new way to control the stability of some colloidal suspensions.
Jun 5th, 2008
Read moreScientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust.
Jun 5th, 2008
Read moreThe long cherished goal of applying the strange properties of quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world we inhabit has been brought closer by a series of recent developments. The exciting progress was made in the important field of quantum optics and discussed recently at a high level conference organised by the European Science Foundation.
Jun 5th, 2008
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