A 3.6 million euro project cofunded by the 7th EU Framework Program is developing Photonic Crystal technology for multi-target biodetection of Cerebrovascular Disease.
Mar 23rd, 2010
Read moreThe Boulder Innovation Center (BIC), one of America's premier entrepreneurial support organizations, will expand and share its CU-Boulder-based research commercialization program with the Colorado School of Mines Office of Technology Transfer in Golden.
Mar 23rd, 2010
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ETH-Zurich physicists have developed a new kind of laser that shatters the boundaries of possibility: it is by far the smallest electrically pumped laser in the world and one day could revolutionize chip technology.
Mar 23rd, 2010
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Skinput is a novel, non-invasive technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission and allows the skin to be used as an input surface.
Mar 23rd, 2010
Read moreThe California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on international research efforts and academic exchanges.
Mar 23rd, 2010
Read moreA team of scientists led by the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has successfully performed a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. \
Mar 23rd, 2010
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Montana State University will celebrate nanoscience, the study of extremely small particles, with NanoDays, featuring free and fun family activities, set for 6-8 p.m. Monday, March 29.
Mar 23rd, 2010
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The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will be installed at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oakridge National Laboratory.
Mar 22nd, 2010
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Television's Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic 'vision' of bionics a reality.
Mar 22nd, 2010
Read moreNanowerk, the leading information provider for all areas of nanotechnologies, today added to its nanotechnology information portal a new free job posting service. The new application, called nanoJOBS, is available immediately on the Nanowerk website.
Mar 22nd, 2010
Read moreThis is the first volume to engage scholarly perspectives on environmental regulation in light of the challenges posed by nanotechnology. Contributors focus on the overarching lessons of decades of regulatory response, while posing a fundamental question: How can government regulatory systems satisfy the desire for scientific innovation while also taking into account the direct and indirect effects of 21st century emerging technologies, particularly in the face of scientific uncertainties?
Mar 22nd, 2010
Read moreA conference from October 3-8, 2010 in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (ESF-EMBO Symposium: Emergent Properties of the Cytoskeleton: Molecules to Cells), will address the best and the newest developments in this research area.
Mar 22nd, 2010
Read moreElectro-mechanical sensors tell the airbag in your car to inflate and rotate your iPhone screen to match your position on the couch. Now a research group of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Engineering is making the technology even more useful.
Mar 22nd, 2010
Read moreElektronische Anwendungen effektiver, sparsamer und umweltfreundlicher zu gestalten - dieses Ziel verfolgen Chemiker der Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena. Das Team um Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert vom Institut fuer Organische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie ist Partner im neuen europaeischen Gemeinschaftsprojekt LOTUS.
Mar 22nd, 2010
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The cellphone is switched off but immediately springs into action at the point of a finger. It is not necessary to touch the display. This touchless control is made possible by a polymer sensor affixed to the cellphone which, like human skin, reacts to the tiniest fluctuations in temperature and differences in pressure and recognizes the finger as it approaches.
Mar 22nd, 2010
Read moreThe interaction of a cellular substance known as TWEAK and a cellular receptor to which TWEAK is drawn, can hasten the weakening of muscle that is caused by disuse, a common and potentially deadly complication of many diseases, including heart disease, cystic fibrosis and cancer.
Mar 22nd, 2010
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