The sounds of nanotechnology
A UT Dallas team expands the extraordinary capabilities of nanotechnology to include laser-powered acoustic speakers made from assemblies of carbon nanotubes.
Mar 11th, 2010
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The scientific brain
The human brain processes predictable sensory input in a particularly efficient manner.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreUAlbany NanoCollege receives NYSERDA funding for energy-storage technology project
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced that it will award $8 million to help develop or commercialize 19 cutting-edge energy storage projects.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreSME unveils annual 'Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture' list
According to recent news reports, manufacturing is showing clear signs of rebounding. Manufacturing's other good news: Eight game-changing innovations are about to enhance production on the factory floor.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreNew Center for Applied NanoBioscience in Arizona targets personalized medicine
The first center of the downtown Phoenix biomedical campus aims to change the way individuals are diagnosed and treated for the most deadly and debilitating diseases.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read more15 Moore's years - 3D chip stacking will take Moore's Law past 2020
More than 50 years old, this law is still in effect, but to extend it as long as 2020 will require a change from mere transistor scaling to novel packaging architectures such as so-called 3D integration, the vertical integration of chips.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreA huge step toward mass production of coveted form of carbon
Scientists have leaped over a major hurdle in efforts to begin commercial production of a form of carbon that could rival silicon in its potential for revolutionizing electronics devices ranging from supercomputers to cell phones.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreNovel OLED concept uses graphene as conductor
Researchers at Stanford University have successfully developed brand new concept of organic lighting-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with a few nanometer of graphene as transparent conductor. This paved the way for inexpensive mass production of OLEDs on large-area low-cost flexible plastic substrate, which could be rolled up like wallpaper and virtually applied to anywhere you want.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreEuropean Biotechnica Award 2010: Competition entries now being accepted
Entries for the EUROPEAN BIOTECHNICA AWARD 2010 are now being accepted. European companies from the biotechnology sector and the life sciences have until 30 April 2010 to submit entries for this prize.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreQuantum walk - physicists take atoms for a walk
A team of physicists headed by Christian Roos and Rainer Blatt from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences realize a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreScientists create nanoscale drug carriers from a plant virus
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in growing empty particles derived from a plant virus and have made them carry useful chemicals.
Mar 10th, 2010
Read moreCotton is the fabric of your lights... your iPod... your MP3 player... your cell phone
Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer's day. What about a pillow that monitors your brain waves, or a solar-powered dress that can charge your phone or MP3 player? This is not science fiction - this is cotton in 2010.
Mar 9th, 2010
Read moreIBM and Stanford University unveil green chemistry breakthrough
In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics.
Mar 9th, 2010
Read moreUniversity of New Mexico establishes new Center for Quantum Information and Control
The University of New Mexico College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona has established the Center for Quantum Information and Control. CQuIC is founded on a three-year, $1.26 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Physics at the Information Frontiers program.
Mar 9th, 2010
Read moreMagnetic quantum dot technology paves the way for futuristic semiconductor technology
Magnetic quantum dot technology is expected to underpin future communications and resolve power consumption and variability issues in today's microelectronics industry by providing computers and other devices with extraordinary electrical and magnetic properties.
Mar 9th, 2010
Read moreNew training and conference centre for the life sciences at EMBL in Heidelberg
Today, the German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, officially opens the new training and conference centre for the life sciences on the campus of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg.
Mar 9th, 2010
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