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Scientists film photons with electrons

4D electron microscopy makes it possible to image photons of nanoscale structures and visualize their architecture.

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Future growth is spelled nanotechnology and regenerative medicine

Professor Samuel Stupp visited Goteborg last week to sign a new cooperative agreement between the University of Gothenburg and Northwestern University of Chicago.

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Scientists use bacteria to power simple machines

Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, Evanston, have discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in a solution, providing insights for design of bio-inspired dynamically adaptive materials for energy.

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Packaging and integration challenges for micro- and nanoenabled sensors

nanoKTN is organizing the event 'Packaging and Integration Challenges for Micro and Nanoenabled Sensors' on January 21, 2010 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK.

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NIST Technology Program announces 20 research project awards

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced funding for 20 new research projects under its Technology Innovation Program (TIP), including projects ranging from unmanned, hovering aircraft for inspecting bridges to a high-speed sorting system for recycling aerospace metals to nanomaterials for advanced batteries.

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Everlasting quantum wave: Physicists predict new form of soliton in ultracold gases

Solitary waves that run a long distance without losing their shape or dying out are a special class of waves called solitons. These everlasting waves are exotic enough, but theoreticians at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) , a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, and their colleagues in India and the George Mason University, now believe that there may be a new kind of soliton that's even more special.

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Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, have created 'synthetic' magnetic fields for ultracold gas atoms, in effect 'tricking' neutral atoms into acting as if they are electrically charged particles subjected to a real magnetic field.

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OECD published the 2009 Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard

Published every two years in print and on line, the OECD Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Scoreboard brings together internationally comparable indicators. It has become a widely used reference which combines statistical rigour with easy access and readability.

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Looking for the heartbeat of cellular networks

Scientists investigated the hybridization - the coupling and de-coupling - of two DNA-strands, which they introduced into living cells.

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New European Protein Research Centre PURE set up

At the Ruhr University Bochum, the European Protein Research Institute PURE (Protein Research Unit Ruhr within Europe) is being set up with more than 37 million Euros state funding.

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American Filtration and Separations Society to hold 23nd Annual Technical Conference

The American Filtration and Separations Society will hold its 23rd Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition on March 22-25, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.

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Tumor treatment with highly energetic carbon beams using intense lasers

Researchers have now succeeded to finally experimentally demonstrate a mechanism of laser-driven beam generation that has been predicted by theorists long time ago.

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State-of-the-art nanowire fabrication technology

European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial development in Europe.

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Nanobodies modify protein shape and function

Researchers were able to demonstrate that unconventionally small antibodies called nanobodies can modulate the properties of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) with exquisite precision.

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Watching proteins direct crystal growth one step at a time

Scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry imaged the growth of protein-studded mineral surfaces with unprecedented resolution and provided a glimpse into how living systems engineer key structural materials.

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New funding for UALbany's nanofabrication and measurement projects

U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that both houses of Congress have passed the FY 2010 Omnibus Appropriations bill which includes $500,000 for the University at Albany's College of Nanoscience and Engineering.

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