Military interest in nanotechnology has long been know and understood, but for scientists who have hoped for interest in C60, the Army's call for fullerenes is a welcome surprise.
Sep 30th, 2008
Read moreThe annual meeting of the working groups of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN) took place in the headquarters of Pharmamar, a biotechnology company of the Spanish Zeltia Group.
Sep 30th, 2008
Read moreThe North Carolina Biotechnology Center has issued $772,596 in Biotechnology Research Grants to 11 scientists at five universities from the Piedmont Triad to the coast.
Sep 30th, 2008
Read moreA groundbreaking poll finds that almost half of U.S. adults have heard nothing about nanotechnology, and nearly nine in 10 Americans say they have heard just a little or nothing at all about the emerging field of synthetic biology, according to a new report.
Sep 30th, 2008
Read moreA novel Brandeis University study this week in PLoS Biology reports on some of the molecular gymnastics performed by a protein involved in regulating DNA transcription.
Sep 29th, 2008
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Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are turning to innovative materials that make possible a new approach to the physics of noise reduction. They have found that honeycomb-like structures composed of many tiny tubes or channels can reduce sound more effectively than conventional methods.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreMIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for "artificial noses" to be created and used in a variety of settings.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreArchaeological evidence suggests that glass was first made in the Middle East sometime around 3000 B.C. However, almost 5,000 years later, scientists are still perplexed about how glassy materials make the transition from a molten state to a solid. Richard Wool, professor of chemical engineering at UD, thinks he has the answer.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreEurope's research ministers adopted conclusions on Alzheimer's, the European partnership for researchers and responsible nanotechnology research at their Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels on 25 and 26 September.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreThe 2nd International Festival of NanoArt organized by NanoArt21 (www.nanoart21.org) will be hosted in Stuttgart, Germany by NAHVISION Institute for International Culture Exchange, between November 1st and November 30th, 2008.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreA UTD/CSIRO team recently demonstrated that synthetically made carbon nanotubes can be commercially manufactured into transparent sheets that are stronger than steel sheets of the same weight.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreJPK Instruments announces a free workshop to be held on Tuesday 2nd December at the Oxford Science Park.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreDutch researcher Jeroen Bominaar has developed a new measurement technique based on following molecules in a (turbulent) airflow. Its main advantage is that no measuring instruments or small particles, such as glass beads, need to be inserted into the flow.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreThe Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announces the establishment of the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences to recognize an individual for exceptional and original research in a selected area of chemistry that has advanced the field in a major way.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read moreForschern gelang erstmals die Entwicklung einer nano-optischen Lichtquelle. Damit wurden ideale Voraussetzungen fuer die Grundlagenforschung im Bereich der optischen Datenuebertragung geschaffen.
Sep 29th, 2008
Read morehe Nanoethics Group today announced that it will make two presentations at the upcoming 'Environmental Nanoparticles: Science, Ethics, and Policy' conference on November 10-11, 2008, hosted by the acclaimed Delaware Biotechnology Institute and University of Delaware.
Sep 29th, 2008
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