Technologies like nanotechnology, biomaterials and microfluidics can play a powerful role in reducing the impact of industrial activity on the environment, while opening new markets for Alberta-developed products and services.
Sep 28th, 2009
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On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom.
Sep 28th, 2009
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It is possible that broken bones will in the near future be fixed using metallic glass. Materials researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an alloy that could herald a new generation of biodegradable bone implants.
Sep 28th, 2009
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At ETH Zurich, there are suspicions that scientific data may have been falsified in two publications and a doctoral thesis in 1999 and 2000.
Sep 28th, 2009
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At SINTEF scientist both exploit the benefits of the nanotechnology and try to discover how tiny particles could behave hazardous in nature.
Sep 28th, 2009
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Rather than reducing disorder, physicists find a way to simply move it somewhere else.
Sep 28th, 2009
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Auf dem 2. Internationalen Nanotechnologie Forum (RusNanoTech 09) in Moskau, organisiert das BMBF vom 6. bis 8. Oktober einen deutschen Gemeinschaftsstand, auf dem auch die Universitaet Kassel vertreten sein wird.
Sep 28th, 2009
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The Nano-Net conference positions itself at the intersection of two worlds, namely, emerging nanotechnologies on one side, and Information and Communication Technologies on the other side.
Sep 28th, 2009
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University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a 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.
Sep 28th, 2009
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Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called 'excitons' that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality.
Sep 27th, 2009
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The NanoTeach project announces a NSF-funded opportunity for high school science teachers to participate in professional development to support the integration of nanoscience and technology into their existing curricula.
Sep 25th, 2009
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The National Science Foundation has awarded $431,200 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Physics to facilitate the purchase of a new highly-specialized imaging system - the first of its kind in Alabama - that will be a centerpiece of a new interdisciplinary research laboratory on campus.
Sep 25th, 2009
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Decision-making on science - especially emerging technologies such as nanotechnology - must become more democratic, a new report on science policy released today argues.
Sep 25th, 2009
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Professor Ian W Boyd of the London Centre for Nanotechnology will take the first leadership role over the new Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication from the 1st of October.
Sep 25th, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Kurdistan have devised special electrochemical nanosensors to measure diabetic patients' insulin level.
Sep 25th, 2009
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Porous coordination polymers that strongly adsorb polar guest molecules can be made using a ligand with separated positive and negative charges.
Sep 25th, 2009
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