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'Noise' tunes logic circuit made from virus genes

Researchers have demonstrated, theoretically, that by exploiting sources of external noise, they can make the network switch between different logic functions in a stable and reliable way.

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New life for old electrons in biological imaging, sensing technologies

Using leftover high-speed electrons from SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source, researchers have successfully generated intense pulses of light in a largely untapped part of the electromagnetic spectrum - the so-called terahertz gap.

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Can metals remember their shape at nanoscale, too?

How nickel-titanium nanometric-size particles change back to their memorised shape.

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Europe's Heterogeneous Technology Alliance developing packaging and testing for MEMS used in space missions

CEA-Leti, CEA-Liten, CSEM, Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics and VTT combining expertise to help European aerospace industry maintain leading position.

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Nanoforscher untersuchen Karies

Forscher der Uni Basel und des Paul Scherrer Instituts konnten im Nanomassstab zeigen, wie sich Karies auf die menschlichen Zaehne auswirkt. Ihre Studie eroeffnet neue Perspektiven fuer die Behandlung von Zahnschaeden, bei denen heute nur der Griff zum Bohrer bleibt.

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Millions in research to take graphene out of the lab

Graphene can enable the best quantum resistance standard. This is one of many advances emerging from the active research into graphene at Chalmers University of Technology. Chalmers will now receive the lion's share of a new Swedish research grant of SEK 40 million for the supermaterial graphene.

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Singularity University announces dates for FutureMed 2012

Silicon Valley's premier program exploring the impact and potential of exponential technologies on the future of health and medicine: Scheduled for February 6-11, 2012.

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Researchers ink nanostructures with nanoscale 'soldering iron'

Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for drawing chemical patterns as small as 20 nanometers.

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Grant funds feasibility study of microneedle patches for polio vaccination

Mark Prausnitz, Regents' professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will pursue an innovative global health research project focused on using microneedle patches for the low-cost administration of polio vaccine through the skin in collaboration with researchers Steve Oberste and Mark Pallansch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Tying atomic threads in knots may produce material benefits

A new generation of lighter, stronger plastics could be produced using an intricate chemical process devised by scientists.

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An incredible shrinking material

Caltech engineers reveal how scandium trifluoride contracts with heat.

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Graphene research: The secrets of tunneling through energy barriers

How massless electrons tunnel through energy barriers in a carbon sheet called graphene.

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Leitfaden Nanotextilien des Textilverbandes Schweiz TVS und der Empa

Der Leitfaden 'Nano Textiles' soll Unternehmen der Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie den sicheren Zu- und Umgang mit der Nanotechnologie erleichtern.

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Berkeley Lab research sparks record-breaking solar cell performances

Theoretical research by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has led to record-breaking sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiencies in solar cells. The researchers showed that, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, the key to boosting solar cell efficiency is not absorbing more photons but emitting more photons.

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Nanotechnology's reach, from swords to solar cells

Nanotechnology may be an emerging field of study, but it's actually been around for a number of centuries, said Murray Gibson, founding dean of the College of Science at Northeastern University.

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Easily 're-programmable cells' could be key in creation of new life forms

Scientists at the University of Nottingham are leading an ambitious research project to develop an in vivo biological cell-equivalent of a computer operating system.

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