Beyond the quantum limit
Scientists create multi-particle entanglement of atoms in a Bose Einstein condensate on a microchip.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreScientists create multi-particle entanglement of atoms in a Bose Einstein condensate on a microchip.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreDuring the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA last year, the MRS conducted the eigth installment of the popular 'Science as Art' competition. Here are the six first-place and second-place winners.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreLeaders of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science want its members to go for the impossible. The institute is reinventing itself into a cutting-edge, research-focused organization to support projects at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging and control.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreThe Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is the seventh most prolific agency in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the total number of research papers published in the prestigious Nature Publishing Group's portfolio of Nature-branded journals in 2009, according to the Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreDirectors of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science discuss their new 'high risk, high payoff' mission to push the technology of observation, measurement and control to ever-smaller dimensions.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreInternet-based science news draws a more demographically diverse, learned and focused audience than print or television news, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison communication researchers.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreA Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from fullerenes. The team also noted that this particular type of damage might hold hope for treatment of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, or even cancer.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreClimate change and next-generation biofuels to be highlighted at global event for biotechnology.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreResearchers at the University of Arkansas and their colleagues have discovered a new phase in ferroelectric nanowires that could be controlled to optimize important properties for future electronic devices.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreSeeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones or scientists working with patients in clinical drug trials.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreA closer look at a promising nanotube coating that might one day improve solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles, according to new research - research that also may help scientists iron out a solution.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreA multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays that can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read morePhysicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built and tested a device for trapping electrically charged atoms (ions) that potentially could process dozens of ions at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated to date.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreHow hard do you have to pull on a single atom of - let's say - gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms? It's a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by engineers.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreCEA-Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, said today that its Hybrid Metrology Project has developed a way to reduce measurement uncertainty in the sub-28nm nodes.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreThe NanoBusiness Alliance and the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance today announced that the 3rd annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit will return to the University of Denver, CO, from May 24-25, 2010.
Mar 31st, 2010
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