The institution, jointly established by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), has a federal mandate to strengthen independent research, consulting and training in the ecotoxicology field.
Nov 17th, 2008
Read moreUsing a high-speed camera setup, GE scientists captured details of water droplets dancing on superhydrophobic surfaces developed in GE Global Research's Nanotechnology lab.
Nov 17th, 2008
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You are invited to submit an abstract for the Poster Session for the Greener Nanoscience 2009 Conference to be held in Eugene, Oregon March 2-3, 2009.
Nov 17th, 2008
Read moreFirst, the good news: young people in Europe are overwhelmingly interested in science and technology and positive about the benefits they bring to society, according to a new Eurobarometer survey on young people's attitudes to science. The bad news is that few are interested in pursuing a scientific career.
Nov 17th, 2008
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Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan have developed polymer films that change color instantaneously and reversibly in response to changes in the tension applied.
Nov 17th, 2008
Read moreUnited Arab Emirates (UAE) Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister HE Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, opened today the second International Conference on Bio-Nanotechnology conference at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
Nov 17th, 2008
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A Cray XT high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science.
Nov 17th, 2008
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Chemists can learn from some shellfish. Mussels, for example, produce an adhesive that sticks strongly to metal and stone, even under water. Chemists have reproduced the protein responsible for this in a synthetic material that contains the same adhesive elements.
Nov 17th, 2008
Read moreBourne Research LLC today announced that it will reveal its 3rd Annual list of the Ten Coolest Consumer Products of 2008 live during its broadcast of The Bourne Report on November 23rd.
Nov 17th, 2008
Read moreResearchers from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid have developed a prototype metropolitan quantum key distribution network that will be ready for deployment by Telefonica on any Spanish urban telecommunications network by 2010.
Nov 17th, 2008
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A new class of exceptionally effective chemical catalysts that promote the powerful olefin metathesis reaction has been discovered by a team of Boston College and MIT scientists, opening up a vast new scientific platform to researchers in medicine, biology and materials.
Nov 16th, 2008
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Japanese and Israeli scientists have developed a technique that can track whole-molecule changes that occur during extremely rapid cis-trans isomerisation reactions.
Nov 16th, 2008
Read moreKhalifa University of Science, Technology and Research today (KUSTR) in Abu Dhabi announced it will set up a nanotechnology research center in collaboration with the Asian Nano Forum.
Nov 16th, 2008
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The SPMage09 competition has the aim to recognize the important contributions to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology that have been made by the many nano initiatives underway around the world. An international jury of prominent researchers in the field of SPM will judge the images submitted to the Image Prize competition.
Nov 14th, 2008
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Two weeks from now, from December 1-4, the U.S. Army will host the 26th installment of its annual Army Science Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Nov 14th, 2008
Read moreThe modern world is the result of innovations developed under a model that no longer works, and companies that want to progress need to employ a new paradigm of open collaboration, reiterated speakers at the well-received SPIE Photonics Innovation Summit on 6 November in the San Francisco-Silicon Valley area.
Nov 14th, 2008
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