NCI awards $13.6 million to UNC's Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Grant will support the continued work of the center launched in 2005 as part of NC's Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer.
Sep 27th, 2010
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Europe's central meeting of experts for nanomedicine
The 5th General Assembly and Annual Forum of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine will take place at Centro Congressi Fondazione Cariplo in Milan, Italy on 14 and 15 October 2010.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreSingle electron reader opens path for quantum computing
A team led by engineers and physicists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a 'single electron reader'.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreRethinking renewables: A new approach to energy storage for wind and solar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers win $2 million NSF grant to develop capacitive energy storage system for renewable power source.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreNanobiotechnology experts join forces to improve Tubercolosis testing
Two UK companies have been awarded joint funding for a research project that could see significant advances in the quest to aid detection and eradication of Tuberculosis (TB), across the world.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreDetector for the single-electron magnet discovered - pathway to the silicon-based quantum computer
Researchers from University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Melbourne (Australia), and Aalto University (Finland) have succeeded in demonstrating a high-fidelity detection scheme for the magnetic state of a single electron, that is, the spin.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreCentre for Food Safety conducts risk study on nanotechnology in food
The study aimed to review the basic principles, application and the potential health implications associated with the use of nanotechnology in the food sector, particularly on food and food contact materials incorporated with nanomaterials.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreQuantum physics: Flavors of entanglement
The entanglement of quantum objects can take surprising forms. Quantum physicists at the University of Innsbruck have investigated several flavors of entanglement in four trapped ions.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreStudy shows how molecules escape from the nucleus of living cells
By constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have illuminated the molecular interactions that occur during one of the most important 'trips' in all of biology: the journey of individual messenger Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules from the nucleus into the cytoplasm (the area between the nucleus and cell membrane) so that proteins can be made.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read morePhysicists repeatedly capture and photograph fast-moving atom
In a major physics breakthrough with international significance, University of Otago scientists have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom - and have also seen and photographed this atom for the first time.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreNanotechnology conference: Fundamentals and applications
The International Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (International ASET) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to organize the 2nd International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications. The conference will take place in Ottawa, Canada, 27-29 July 2011.
Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreQuantum information systems: Researchers convert signals to telecom wavelengths, increase memory times
Using optically dense, ultra-cold clouds of rubidium atoms, researchers have made advances in three key elements needed for quantum information systems - including a technique for converting photons carrying quantum data to wavelengths that can be transmitted long distances on optical fiber telecom networks.
Sep 26th, 2010
Read moreNational Cancer Institute launches next phase of Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer program
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded five-year, multi-institution grants in continued support of its Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer program. The Alliance is engaged in efforts to leverage the specific advantages of nanotechnology to improve the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent cancer. Given the progress to date, the NCI approved a second phase of the program with an investment of approximately $30 million per year for the next five years.
Sep 24th, 2010
Read moreIBM breakthrough captures high speed measurements of individual atoms
Today, IBM researchers published a breakthrough technique that measures how long a single atom can hold information, and giving scientists the ability to record, study and 'visualize' extremely fast phenomena inside these atoms.
Sep 24th, 2010
Read moreA 'forest' of molecules holds the promise of turning waste heat into electricity
Physicists have discovered a new way of harvesting waste heat and turning it into electrical power. Taking advantage of quantum effects, the technology holds great promise for making cars, power plants, factories and solar panels more efficient.
Sep 24th, 2010
Read moreMimicking nature, water-based artificial leaf produces electricity
A team led by a North Carolina State University researcher has shown that water-gel-based solar devices can act like solar cells to produce electricity. The findings prove the concept for making solar cells that more closely mimic nature. They also have the potential to be less expensive and more environmentally friendly than the current standard-bearer: silicon-based solar cells.
Sep 24th, 2010
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