Music, rather than electromechanical valves, can drive experimental samples through a lab-on-a-chip in a new system developed at the University of Michigan. This development could significantly simplify the process of conducting experiments in microfluidic devices.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreMeasurements with ytterbium-174, an isotope with 70 protons and 104 neutrons, have shown the largest effects of parity violation in an atom ever observed - a hundred times larger than the most precise measurements made so far, with the element cesium.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreJapanese researchers have created sub-nano scale platinum clusters with high catalytic activity for use in fuel cell applications.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreScientists from the University of Stuttgart are working in a cross-faculty research project to produce oxide ceramics by biological means.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreCarnegie Mellon University's Andrew J. Gellman will use a $2 million research grant from the Department of Energy to continue developing atomically and molecularly structured surfaces that will have an enormous impact on the efficiency of catalysts used to create products for the specialty chemical and petroleum industries.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreA researcher in Canada is enlisting the help of viruses and bacteria in copper mining.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreEU-funded researchers in Germany have succeeded in tracking individual nanoparticles as they make their way into target cells, applying a highly sensitive, real-time microscopic technique that delivers high spatial and temporal resolution.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreScientists in India are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreCompanies collaborate to exploit semiconductor technology enabling 30% to 40% power reduction for chips and systems.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreNano-Teilchen bis nahe an den absoluten Nullpunkt abgekuehlt entwickeln dann eine eigene Wellen-Natur, die Forscher zu quantenphysikalische Versuchen nutzen.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreDr Jenny Brookes has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. She will work to understand the mystery of olfaction at the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are proving that a camera phone can capture far more than photos of people or pets at play. They have now developed a cell phone microscope, or CellScope, that not only takes color images of malaria parasites, but of tuberculosis bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers.
Jul 22nd, 2009
Read moreThe race is on for a successor to the popular flash memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily fabricated 'crossbar' architecture.
Jul 21st, 2009
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Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering the effects of global warming.
Jul 21st, 2009
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Rice lab's atomic map of hepatitis E may reveal strategies to fight it.
Jul 21st, 2009
Read moreBy substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to products currently on the market.
Jul 21st, 2009
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