Researchers at MIT are working on a new type of blood glucose monitor that could not only eliminate the need for finger pricks but also offer more accurate readings.
May 28th, 2010
Read moreEuropean scientists have created a pioneering three-dimensional (3D) brain probing system that may provide new leads for understanding schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and other serious brain conditions.
May 28th, 2010
Read moreMit 4,23 Millionen Euro foerdert die Europaeische Union den Aufbau von zwei Technologie-Zentren an der Uni Wuerzburg. Die neuen Einrichtungen befassen sich mit Nanotechnologien und mit ultrahochaufloesender Analytik.
May 28th, 2010
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Jeffrey Long's lab will soon host a round-the-clock, robotically choreographed hunt for carbon-hungry materials. The Berkeley Lab chemist leads a diverse team of scientists whose goal is to quickly discover materials that can efficiently strip carbon dioxide from a power plant's exhaust, before it leaves the smokestack and contributes to climate change.
May 28th, 2010
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Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing metamaterials.
May 27th, 2010
Read moreDr. Andriy Kovalenko will make a keynote presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, presented by TAPPI and VTT. He is Senior Research Officer, Group Leader - Theory and Modeling, NRC-NINT and Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta.
May 27th, 2010
Read moreThe theoretical structure was confirmed via comparison to experimental results obtained by X-ray diffraction from powder samples of the pure cluster material.
May 27th, 2010
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Christian Stamm and his colleagues at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie (HZB) can look back on six years of pioneering work at the synchrotron BESSY II. They have set up a unique experiment on so-called femtoslicing, and are now publishing a result obtained in collaboration with an external user group.
May 26th, 2010
Read moreAiming to motivate researchers to help the U.S. Navy decrease its reliance on fossil fuels, the Office of Naval Research announced nine winners of an 'Energy Challenge' that was issued at its recent Naval Energy Forum.
May 26th, 2010
Read moreThe DFM Workshop explores how both physics and economics conspire against performance, power and cost at the deep sub micron nodes.
May 26th, 2010
Read moreGary D. Seidel, assistant professor of aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award to support development of a carbon nanotube-enhanced composite for structural health monitoring sensors to improve the resiliency of huge wind turbine blades.
May 26th, 2010
Read moreMit der Alterung biologischer Zellen beschaeftigen sich deutsche Wissenschaftler und Unternehmen in einem neuen Verbundprojekt. Modernste optische Methoden sollen die Prozesse in lebenden Zellen beruehrungslos charakterisieren und abbilden.
May 26th, 2010
Read moreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded nearly $2.5 million to 11 companies to support their work in eight key environmental areas: monitoring and control of air emissions, biofuels, green buildings, drinking water monitoring, hazardous waste monitoring, water infrastructure, homeland security, nanotechnology and innovation in manufacturing.
May 26th, 2010
Read moreDr Mark Gasson, from the School of Systems Engineering, contaminated a computer chip which had been inserted into his hand as part of research into human enhancement and the potential risks of implantable devices.
May 26th, 2010
Read moreJulia Phillips, director of Nuclear Weapons Science and Technology Programs at Sandia National Laboratories, and Sandia researcher Neville Moody have been named Fellows in the Materials Research Society (MRS).
May 26th, 2010
Read moreA silicon-based nanoscale system which aims to harness the spin of electrons to boost the processing power of future computer systems is being developed by researchers at the University of Southampton, jointly with the University of Cambridge, the NTT Basic Research Laboratories and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.
May 26th, 2010
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