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Water oxidation advance boosts potential for solar fuel

Emory University chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.

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New imaging technology brings trace chemicals into focus

Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals important in such areas as national security, human health and the environment.

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Scientists find new way to get physical in the fight against cancer

Conventional biological wisdom holds that living cells interact with their environment through an elaborate network of chemical signals. As a result many therapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases in which cell behavior goes awry focus on drugs that block or disrupt harmful chemical signals. Now, a new road for future therapies may have been opened with scientific evidence for a never seen before way in which cells can also sense and respond to physical forces.

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Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel

Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.

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Quantum dots spotlight DNA-repair proteins in motion

Repair proteins appear to efficiently scan the genome for errors by jumping like fleas between DNA molecules, sliding along the strands, and perhaps pausing at suspicious spots, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Essex and the University of Vermont who tagged the proteins with quantum dots to watch the action unfold.

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Alberta Centre for Advanced Micro Nanotechnology Products hosts Conventional Energy seminar

Today at ACAMP's latest seminar, Alberta's conventional energy industry learned how nanotechnology, micro-systems and micro-fluidics can play a powerful role in enhancing operational performance, reducing costs and promoting efficient extraction of oil and gas resources, while opening new markets for Alberta companies worldwide.

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PEGylated Dendrimers: a novel mechanism of drug delivery

Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS) researchers, in collaboration with the biotechnology company Starpharma Holdings Ltd have developed a new method to deliver medications that may benefit thousands of patients with particular types of cancer, HIV and lymphatic conditions world-wide.

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CU-Boulder laboratory to host public events for NanoDays April 2-3

The Colorado Nanofabrication Laboratory at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a symposium April 2 and a program of interactive, family-oriented outreach activities April 3 as part of NanoDays"2010, the third annual nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering.

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Behavior of single protein observed in unprecedented detail with single-molecule spectroscopy

For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so tightly as to alter its fundamental behavior.

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Nanoelectromechanical oscillators could lead to detection of harmful molecules, bacteria

By watching how energy moves across a tiny device akin to a springing diving board, Cornell researchers are a step closer to creating extraordinarily tiny sensors that can instantly recognize harmful substances in air or water.

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Riso DTU takes the lead for a Test and Approval Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies

Riso DTU has now with Danish Gas Technology Center (DGC) as partner received support from the Danish Programme for Energy Technology Development and Demonstration (EUPD) to initialize a center which will eventually support industry with test, development, analysis, approval, certification, consultation, and training in the areas of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies.

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Can we detect quantum behaviour in viruses?

The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect quantum properties in more complex and larger entities, possibly even living organisms.

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Molekulare Lichtschalter

Molekuele, die erst bei Bestrahlung mit Licht ihre biologische Funktion entfalten, koennten an genau definierter Stelle im Organismus 'angeschaltet' werden. Wissenschaftlern vom Leibniz-Institut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) und von der Technischen Universitaet Berlin ist es gelungen, solche lichtsensiblen molekularen Strukturen zu entwickeln.

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Nanotechnology to make high tech industry cool

A new pan-European project called NanoHex is developing a cutting edge liquid coolant that incorporates purpose engineered nanoparticles for more efficient cooling.

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The sounds of nanotechnology

A UT Dallas team expands the extraordinary capabilities of nanotechnology to include laser-powered acoustic speakers made from assemblies of carbon nanotubes.

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The scientific brain

The human brain processes predictable sensory input in a particularly efficient manner.

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