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Nanotechnology creatures battling inside your computer

We haven't had a Slow News Friday story in a while, so today, especially with the long holiday weekend in the States, would be a good time to take a look at the online game Nanovor.

November 27, 2009 Read more

European report notes continued gender imbalance in science

Despite a rise in their numbers, female scientific researchers remain a minority, accounting for just 30% of all scientific researchers in Europe.

November 27, 2009 Read more

Bonner Forscher bauen eine ultrakleine Quanten-Ratsche

Physiker der Universitaet Bonn haben eine Art 'Mini-Ratsche' hergestellt, die vollstaendig quantenmechanisch funktioniert.

November 26, 2009 Read more

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles.

November 26, 2009 Read more

Europe's multi-million-euro commitment to nanomedicine

The EU ERA-NET initiative EuroNanoMed will support eight transnational research projects with EUR 17 million based on the result of its first call for proposals, which was launched in May 2009 to promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research into nanomedicine - the application of nanotechnology to health.

November 26, 2009 Read more

Nano-towers fire off single photons

Wuerzburg physicists are global leaders in the creation of sophisticated nanostructures. The fruits of their research could make tap-proof data transmission a possibility in the future.

November 26, 2009 Read more

Neues Forschungszentrum Photonische Technologien in Stuttgart

Ob es um die Entwicklung neuer optischer Materialien, wie etwa ultraduenne Metallfilme geht, um metallische Nanopartikel, um das Schalten mit Licht, um ultraschnelle Nanooptik, um Atomoptik in Wellenleitern, um Halbleiter-Quantenpunkte, um neuartige Lichtquellen und Interferometer oder um die Optimierung von Nano-Antennen: In der Optik, Photonik und Optolelektronik ist die Universitaet Stuttgart hervorragend aufgestellt.

November 26, 2009 Read more

RNA on the move

In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal's body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along its entire length before being translated into protein. Scientists have now visualized the molecular mechanism that underlies this localisation process.

November 26, 2009 Read more

Spintronics breakthrough could lead to energy efficient computer chips

Scientists from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente and the FOM Foundation have succeeded in transferring magnetic information directly into a semiconductor.

November 26, 2009 Read more

Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal

Chemists and physicists have succeeded in getting custom-shaped microparticles to interact and self-assemble in a controlled way in a liquid crystal.

November 25, 2009 Read more

Fishing for active substances - new screening procedure

With a new screening method, based on a DNA-encoded substance collection, ETH researchers from the a group headed by Dario Neri, professor of bio-macromolecules at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, are attempting to revolutionise the search for potentially active substances for medicines.

November 25, 2009 Read more

DFG finanziert Lipidforschung in Heidelberg, Dresden und Bonn

Als gemeinsamer Verbund der Lipidforschung an den Universitaeten Heidelberg, Dresden und Bonn wird an der Ruperto Carola der Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 'Molekulare Architektur und zellulaere Funktionen von Lipid/Protein-Komplexen' eingerichtet.

November 25, 2009 Read more

Researchers develop rapid, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic test with gold nanoparticles

The method is based on the aggregation of gold nanoparticles, and it selectively detects arsenic in drinking water down to concentrations of 3 ppt (parts per trillion).

November 25, 2009 Read more

Nanotechnology - the sexy new science with lots of unanswered questions

Greater transparency and public engagement about the potential opportunities and risks presented by nanotechnology is required, according to a new report by The Australia Institute.

November 25, 2009 Read more

Joint German-Arab energy research

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Sharjah (UOS) will cooperate in the future. Cooperation with the University of Sharjah will cover joint research projects to study urgent aspects of energy research, the focus being on renewable and sustainable energies.

November 25, 2009 Read more

APOLLON, the largest European photoelectric research project

TECNALIA Technological Corporation, through its Energy Unit, is the only representative from the Spanish State within APOLLON, the largest European photoelectric energy research project, falling within the remit of the 7th R+D Framework Programme.

November 25, 2009 Read more