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I'm a Scientist - the Film (w/video)

Stephen Curry has made a film by interviewing six scientists who are at different stages of their careers. They were kind enough to share their stories of how they got into science and to talk about why they like doing it and what they think it takes to be a good scientist.

September 19, 2011 Read more

Semiconductor Research Corporation and NSF award $20 million to fund U.S. university research on nanoelectronics for 2020

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, joined today with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund $20 million for 12 four-year grants on nanoelectronics research.

September 19, 2011 Read more

Findings could lead to better hydrogen storage

MIT-led research demonstrates method that could allow inexpensive carbon materials to store the volatile gas at room temperature.

September 19, 2011 Read more

Nanoparticles cause brain injury in fish

Scientists at the University of Plymouth have shown, for the first time in an animal, that nanoparticles have a detrimental effect on the brain and other parts of the central nervous system.

September 19, 2011 Read more

Electrical energy storage from -50 C to 100 C

A team of transatlantic researchers from three countries report the development of a novel system that may help to store and use electrical energy from extremely low to very hot temperatures.

September 18, 2011 Read more

Why carbon nanotubes spell trouble for cells

Scientists have shown that certain nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, enter cells tip-first and almost always at a 90-degree angle. The orientation ends up fooling the cell; by taking in the rounded tip first, the cell mistakes the particle for a sphere, rather than a long cylinder. By the time the cell realizes the material is too long to be fully ingested, it's too late.

September 18, 2011 Read more

Researchers create the most efficient colloidal quantum dot solar cell ever

Researchers from the University of Toronto, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Pennsylvania State University have created the most efficient colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell ever.

September 18, 2011 Read more

NIH, DARPA and FDA collaborate to develop cutting-edge technologies to predict drug safety

The National Institutes of Health will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to develop a chip to screen for safe and effective drugs far more swiftly and efficiently than current methods, and before they are tested in humans.

September 17, 2011 Read more

UMass Amherst Nanotechnology Center receives $20 million renewal of federal grant to boost advanced manufacturing

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a national research center on nanomanufacturing. The grant will fund the university's Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing.

September 16, 2011 Read more

Superconductors and X-ray beams: the drawing shapes

An Italian-British team of scientists has succeeded in drawing superconducting shapes using an X-ray beam. The study shows how being able to create and control tiny superconducting structures could lead to innovative electronic devices.

September 16, 2011 Read more

Quantum behavior with a flash

Just as a camera flash illuminates unseen objects hidden in darkness, a sequence of laser pulses can be used to study the elusive quantum behavior of a large "macroscopic" object. This method provides a novel tool of unprecedented performance for current experiments that push the boundaries of the quantum world to larger and larger scales.

September 16, 2011 Read more

Bedeutung von In-vitro-Methoden zur Beurteilung der chronischen Toxizitaet und Karzinogenitaet von Nanomaterialien

Der Schwerpunkt der durchgefuehrten Literaturauswertungen lag auf der Analyse der Aussagekraft von In-vitro-Gentoxizitaetstests in Relation zur Karzinogenitaet atembarer faserfoermiger und granulaerer Staeube gemaess Epidemiologie und Langzeit-Tierversuchen.

September 16, 2011 Read more

Researchers join two diamondoid structures to create the longest carbon-carbon bond

Research by a team from two European universities and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory shows that attractive forces between other parts of a molecule can make a stretched bond joining two carbon atoms much more stable than expected. This result should lead to improvements in how scientists design new molecules, materials and catalysts.

September 16, 2011 Read more

Famed Japanese scholar to lead NCKU Materials Science Research Center

Masahiro Yoshimura, a world-renowned expert on ceramics and materials science, has been appointed director of National Cheng Kung University's Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (PCGMR), which will be launched on September 23.

September 16, 2011 Read more

Molecule-based memory devices edge closer

Molecule-based memory devices edge closer with the development of supramolecular structures that act as tiny magnets.

September 16, 2011 Read more

A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and University of Washington to develop silicon photonics

A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and the University of Washington announce that they will join forces to provide shared Silicon Photonics processes as part of the Optoelectronics Systems Integration in Silicon programme (OpSIS). This will help the research and development community significantly reduce the fabrication cost of silicon photonics integrated circuits.

September 16, 2011 Read more