Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comb - a tool for precisely measuring different frequencies of visible light - that actually looks like a comb.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreDoes your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist.
Oct 29th, 2009
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Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreInspired by water-resistant lotus leaves, the Pitt-developed solution repels freezing rain and provides the first evidence of anti-icing ability in superhydrophobic coatings.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreA team of investigators from the University of Toronto have used nanomaterials to develop an inexpensive microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreCancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy, leading to relapse of disease. One approach showing promise in overcoming multidrug resistance in tumors is to combine two different anticancer agents in one nanoscale construct, providing a one-two punch that can prove lethal to such resistant cells.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the Winthrop Rockefeller Cancer Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have developed another fiber optic technique that can detect lymph node metastases and destroy them on the spot, an action that could prevent the further spread of breast cancer, melanoma, or gastrointestinal cancer, all of which spread through the lymphatic system.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreA research team led by Daniel Kohane of Children's Hospital Boston has devised a drug delivery solution that combines magnetism with nanotechnology.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreCisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. Now, however, researchers have developed a nanoparticulate formulation of cisplatin that may be able to eliminate or reduce platinum-associated toxicity while boosting cisplatin's tumor-killing activity.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreSteven Pieper and Robert Wiringa, senior scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, have won the 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in nuclear physics.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreDr Amanda Barnard was awarded the 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for major contributions to the field of nanoscience.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreMarkku Rajala has been nominated as the awardee of the Fine Particle Forum Award 2009. For long, Rajala has carried a central role in the networking of the Finnish fine particle field by increasing the interaction both between academia and industry and within industry stakeholders, in an unprejudiced, interdisciplinary way.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreFirst-ever simulation of a stretching silver nanowire over a period of a millisecond.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreOfficials from University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro and N.C. A+T State University will hold a groundbreaking for the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the South Campus of Gateway University Research Park, 2901 E. Lee Street, Greensboro.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreA collaborative team of biologists and nanotechnologists have demonstrated how seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes in the agar medium sprouted up to two times faster than control seed, a growth enhancement that has enormous potential on agriculture as well as plant-based biofuel production.
Oct 28th, 2009
Read moreHRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it will continue groundbreaking work developing electronics that simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) SyNAPSE program, or Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.
Oct 28th, 2009
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