Security and law enforcement officials may some day have a new ally - a universal detection system that can monitor the air for virtually all of the major threat agents that could be used by terrorists.
Jun 12th, 2008
Read moreOne looks at the 'small science' of nanomaterials, the other looks at big picture issues with the Canadian health care system. Today at The University of Western Ontario, both Francois Lagugne-Labarthet and Amardeep Thind were awarded Canada Research Chairs - one of the country's most prestigious research awards.
Jun 12th, 2008
Read moreNanoQuebec has taken a new step in its organizational development by naming its first President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Jean Bourbonnais, Chairman of the Board of Directors, announces the appointment of Dr. Robert Crawhall to the position effective July 2.
Jun 12th, 2008
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Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced that it developed a transistor with highly purified semiconductor single-wall carbon nanotubes.
Jun 12th, 2008
Read moreA team of Penn State researchers has shown for the first time that the entire class of non-magnetic materials, such as those used in some computer components, could have considerably more uses than scientists had thought.
Jun 11th, 2008
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Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a simplified, low-cost process for producing high-quality, water-soluble quantum dots for biological research.
Jun 11th, 2008
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hile the results may not rival the artistry of glassblowers in Europe and Latin America, researchers have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called 'nanoglassblowing' that creates nanoscale fluidic devices used to isolate and study single molecules in solution - including individual DNA strands.
Jun 11th, 2008
Read moreTwo Arizona State University researchers from the electrical engineering department's Nanostructures Research Group have proposed a solution to one of the most controversial conundrums of quantum computing and, in the process, may have taken a significant step toward realizing a quantum computing future.
Jun 11th, 2008
Read moreThe designed molecule converts absorbed light to electrochemical energy but reduces the efficiency of the conversion as light intensity increases.
Jun 11th, 2008
Read moreIn Homer's watercolor 'For to be a Farmer's Boy,' painted in 1887, some of the red and yellow pigments have faded in the sky, leaving that area virtually without color. To determine what the original colors were, researchers are using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreResearchers at the University of Montreal say we should be concerned regarding the potential bioaccumulation in birds and aquatic mammals that feed off mussels.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreThe Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a $1.6 million T-32 National Cancer Institute training grant to recruit two outstanding trainees every year with MD and/or PhD degrees and diverse backgrounds in either biochemistry, physics, molecular/cellular/cancer biology, or an engineering/physics discipline.
Jun 10th, 2008
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Using one of the world's most powerful sources of man-made radiation, physicists from UC San Diego, Columbia University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have uncovered new secrets about the properties of graphene.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreUndergraduates at the University of Leicester are on target to design, build and launch a student satellite on a real space mission.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreCommonly used industrial dyes hold the key to advancing the new science of 'spintronics', say researchers working on a new a study.
Jun 10th, 2008
Read moreA new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.
Jun 10th, 2008
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