The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational nonprofit prize institute dedicated to fostering radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, today announced the appointment of Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., as Chairman of its Life Sciences Prize Group Steering Committee.
Mar 9th, 2009
Read moreBetter Humans LLC has just released the Spring Issue of h+, the second online edition of a new magazine.
Mar 9th, 2009
Read moreThe award will be given for a technical innovation that improves the quality of life. Nomination will be accepted until 1 October 2009.
Mar 9th, 2009
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Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials science and engineering.
Mar 9th, 2009
Read moreResearch led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnut shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light based computing to the possibility of 'slow glass'.
Mar 8th, 2009
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This week's Nature Materials reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain.
Mar 8th, 2009
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A research group from the UAB Department of Electronic Engineering, the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (CNM-IMB, CSIC), the UAB Research Park, and the EPFL Microsystems Laboratory of Lausanne, Switzerland, has created a nanobalance capable of detecting infimum amounts of matter.
Mar 7th, 2009
Read moreAn antibody with the potential to stop breast cancer in its path. A nanoparticle that can address a side effect of the treatment that hemophiliacs cannot live without. A quantum dot with the potential to treat cancer or harvest the power of the sun. An air purifier that kills the world's nastiest toxins. These are some of the new inventions that were patented in 2008 by University at Buffalo researchers.
Mar 7th, 2009
Read moreUncertainties in detecting and measuring levels of nanomaterials could make risk assessment of some nanotechnology products extremely difficult, according to the European Food Safety Authority.
Mar 7th, 2009
Read moreThe Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics is awarding nearly $5.4 million in state?funded research support to six research teams. This new round of scientific exploration will provide initial support for research on cancer, neurological diseases, heart disease, gastrointestinal conditions and nanotechnology that could impact a range of diseases.
Mar 7th, 2009
Read moreUniversity of Washington researchers are helping to write the operating manual for the nano-scale machine that separates chromosomes before cell division.
Mar 6th, 2009
Read moreStatement of Dr. George W. Crabtree, Senior Scientist, Associate Division Director and Distinguished Fellow, Materials Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Mar 6th, 2009
Read moreThe Canadian economy became cleaner today as 16 new projects that develop and demonstrate emerging clean technologies were awarded $53 million.
Mar 6th, 2009
Read moreOne of the main challenges to using computational laboratories to model physical reality is the paradoxical task of taking uncertainty into accurate quantitative account.
Mar 6th, 2009
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Breakthrough procedure has potential applications in medical imaging, homeland security, biological sensors.
Mar 6th, 2009
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Researchers have produced amphiphilic hybrid particles made of a water-insoluble inorganic nanoparticle at the core surrounded by a bristle-like layer of hydrophilic polymer chains.
Mar 6th, 2009
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