The Arts-Sciences Workshop, a common innovation initiative between CEA-Grenoble and the Hexagone Scene Nationale de Meylan, in partnership with the Cultural Center for Scientific and Industrial Engineering (CCSTI) in Grenoble, has issued a call for projects.
Apr 5th, 2011
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Standing in front of a mirror, we can easily tell apart ourselves from our mirror image. The mirror does not affect our motion in any way. For quantum particles, this is much more complicated. In a spectacular experiment in the labs of the University of Heidelberg, a group of physicists at the University Heidelberg, together with colleagues at TU Munich and TU Vienna extended a gedankenexperiment by Einstein and managed to blur the distinction between a particle and its mirror image.
Apr 5th, 2011
Read moreNanomaterials are causing a revolution in fields as far apart as medicine, energy systems and consumer products. Despite their enormous potential, the production, use and disposal of these materials can entail risks for humans and the environment. The National Research Programme "Opportunities and risks of nanomaterials" (NRP 64) aims to identify both the risks and the opportunities of nanomaterials for human health, the environment and natural resources.
Apr 5th, 2011
Read moreTo further increase the efficiency of solar collectors, researchers have mixed nanoparticles into the heat-transfer oils normally used in solar thermal power plants.
Apr 5th, 2011
Read morePioneering researchers in Europe have done what no one has been able to do: surpass the limit on the sensitivity of a quantum measurement. The result could play a key role in interferometry and quantum limits of measurement.
Apr 4th, 2011
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Chemists at UC San Diego have produced the first high resolution structure of a nano-scale square made from ribonucleic acid, or RNA.
Apr 4th, 2011
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Surprising phenomenon may lead to greater sensitivity in image sensor devices.
Apr 4th, 2011
Read moreAuf der am heutigen 4. April beginnenden Hannover Messe ist auch die Fachhochschule Brandenburg mit einem Exponat vertreten. Der Messeauftritt beschaeftigt sich primaer mit der Mitwirkung am internationalen Forschungsprojekt PARAFLUO, das im 7. Forschungsrahmenprogramm der EU gefoerdert wird.
Apr 4th, 2011
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Researchers at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, are developing sensors for the future. Their size decreases. They are more robust than today's sensors, communicate wirelessly, and even reduce energy consumption to a minimum. But more important: The researchers are connecting all sensors to the Future Internet.
Apr 4th, 2011
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers at UCLA has developed a "roadmap" of the complex signaling processes involved in cancer that could lead to new methods for diagnosing and overcoming such drug resistance.
Apr 4th, 2011
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A joint cooperation between three research groups at nanoGUNE (Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain) reports an innovative method to focus infrared light with tapered transmission lines to nanometer-size dimensions. This device could trigger the development of novel chemical and biological sensing tools, including ultra-small infrared spectrometers and lab-on-a-chip integrated biosensors.
Apr 4th, 2011
Read moreGLOBALFOUNDRIES, one of the world's leading semiconductor foundries, has signed a strategic long-term partnership on sub-22nm CMOS scaling and GaN-on-Si technology with the nanoelectronics R+D center imec.
Apr 4th, 2011
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Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) and IBM Research - Almaden have developed the first biodegradable polymer nanoparticles to combat drug-resistant superbugs, such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Apr 4th, 2011
Read moreThe discovery by two Penn State University researchers is a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials, which the researchers say greatly expands the possibilities for discovering or designing materials with desired properties. The research is expected to have broad relevance in many development efforts involving physical, chemical, biological, or engineering disciplines including, for example, the search for advanced ferroelectric ferromagnet materials for next-generation ultrasound devices and computers.
Apr 3rd, 2011
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With the first observation of thermoelectric effects at graphene contacts, University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces their temperature.
Apr 3rd, 2011
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Nanoparticles could offer big hope in a small package to the many millions of people who are allergic to the nickel in everything from jewelry to coins and cell phones.
Apr 3rd, 2011
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