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Science and Technology Roadmaps to China 2050

Springer and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announce the publication of strategic reports planning the next 40 years of progress in science and technology.

October 12, 2009 Read more

Graphene sheets grow by first forming geodesic carbon nanodomes

Tiny carbon islands bubble up at the center to form nanoscopic geodesic domes.

October 12, 2009 Read more

The 12th Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics Held in Lanzhou

The 12th Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics (COOL'09) hosted by Institute of Modern Physics, CAS took place in Lanzhou on August 31st, 2009, with over 80 beam cooling experts from France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Taiwan attending the meeting.

October 12, 2009 Read more

New release of free quantum effect simulator

A new version of 1dhetero, a able to simulate new technologically relevant III-V semiconductor materials at atomistic level, has been released.

October 11, 2009 Read more

Innovation makes artificial hand seem real

Pioneering techniques in the manufacture of artificial limbs continue to emerge in Europe, and the SMARTHAND ('The smart bio-adaptive hand prosthesis') project has risen to the challenge.

October 9, 2009 Read more

UT Medical School at Houston establishes nanomedicine and biomedical engineering department

The University of Texas Medical School at Houston has established a Department of NanoMedicine and Biomedical Engineering (nBME), which will give students an opportunity to get hands-on experience in these emerging fields of medicine.

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Dutch researcher wins prestigious prize for HybSi membranes

Dr. Rob Kreiter, working at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), has received the 2009 Donald R. Ulrich award for 'an outstanding contribution to the field of Sol-Gel science and technology'.

October 9, 2009 Read more

Highly engineered nanomaterials may solve one of science's toughest problems

Researchers from UT Dallas, Clemson University and Yale University are using science on the nanoscale to address one of the most elusive challenges in physics - the discovery of room temperature superconductivity.

October 9, 2009 Read more

Quantum computing may actually be useful, after all

MIT researchers present a new algorithm that could bring the same type of efficiency to systems of linear equations - whose solution is crucial to image processing, video processing, signal processing, robot control, weather modeling, genetic analysis and population analysis, to name just a few applications.

October 9, 2009 Read more

Nanoforscher ausgezeichnet

Der diesjaehrige Nanowissenschaftspreis der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Nanotechnologie-Kompetenzzentren Deutschlands (AGeNT-D) wurde zweimal in der Kategorie Junior vergeben.

October 9, 2009 Read more

Physicists confirm existence of permanent electric currents in tiny metal rings

Since the early days of quantum physics in the 1920s and 30s, it has been suggested time and again that electric 'continuous currents' flow in tiny metal rings. These currents are small, but flow permanently, even without applied voltage. Physicists at Yale University and Freie Universitaet Berlin have now demonstrated the existence of these permanent currents in detail.

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EPA and EU coordinate call on environmental behavior of engineered nanomaterials

Announcement of intent to issue an RFA on fate and transport of engineered nanomaterials in coordination with the European Commission.

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3-D structure of the human genome deciphered

Scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, paving the way for new insights into genomic function and expanding our understanding of how cellular DNA folds at scales that dwarf the double helix.

October 9, 2009 Read more

Toward better solar cells: Chemists gain control of light-harvesting paths

University of Florida chemists have pioneered a method to tease out promising molecular structures for capturing energy, a step that could speed the development of more efficient, cheaper solar cells.

October 8, 2009 Read more

MIT team implements the first 'one-way roads' for light

MIT researchers have implemented for the first time a one-way structure in which microwave light flows losslessly around obstacles or defects.

October 8, 2009 Read more

CNRS establishes its first joint international nanotechnology research unit in Asia with an industry partner

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Thales have established a joint international research unit called CINTRA (CNRS International ? NTU ? Thales Research Alliance). Based in Singapore, the new unit will conduct research into nanotechnologies for electronics, photonics, and related applications.

October 8, 2009 Read more