Ground-state cooling should in principle be possible in the 'resolved-sideband regime', as demonstrated with trapped atom and ions. Researchers have now been able to demonstrate just this very regime experimentally - taking a key step towards ground state cooling.
Apr 14th, 2008
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The University of Michigan on Friday opened its expanded nanotechnology lab, a $40 million project dedicated to inventing ultra-small tools for reshaping the worlds of medicine, computing and energy.
Apr 11th, 2008
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Provocative results yielded by two years of experiments carried out at Princeton University have a group of scientists saying that high-temperature superconductivity does not hinge on a magical glue binding electrons together. The secret to superconductivity, they say, may rest instead on the ability of electrons to take advantage of their natural repulsion in a complex situation.
Apr 11th, 2008
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Researchers at the Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Chemistry (ICCAS), have made progress in designing and synthesis of n- and p-type organic semiconductors.
Apr 11th, 2008
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Some of the most challenging problems in science concern the behaviour of the most commonplace compound on the planet's surface - water. But some of the mysteries are now being unravelled by the latest analysis and imaging techniques in an unfolding story that was presented at a recent conference organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) focusing on interaction between water and other compounds at the molecular level.
Apr 11th, 2008
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The result: The 'Maroga' team won the New York City regional competition held this January. In February, team Maroga was sent to the national finals in Washington, D.C., which, this year, was won by students from Louisiana.
Apr 11th, 2008
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The winner, or winners, of the first ever science prize for outstanding achievement in nanosciences will be announced next month by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Apr 11th, 2008
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As a result of a multi-million Euro project, a high speed Metal Printing Process (MPP) for the production of metal products with functionally graded materials has been developed.
Apr 11th, 2008
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Today, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Commission announced the twelve nominees for the Inventor of the Year 2008 awards. An independent and high-profile international jury has nominated twelve outstanding researchers and their inventions which have had a significant impact on our everyday lives and were patented by the EPO between 1993 and 2002.
Apr 10th, 2008
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Researchers find the ties that bind electrons in high-temperature superconductivity.
Apr 10th, 2008
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By using a popcorn-ball design - tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres - researchers at the University of Washington are able to manipulate light and more than double the efficiency of converting solar energy to electricity.
Apr 10th, 2008
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The 2008 Nanomedicine Conference to be held in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain on September 19-24, 2008, is the evolution of the ESF Forward Look on Nanomedicine project.
Apr 10th, 2008
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The precise control over chemical transformations, both in terms of 'tuning' reaction products and allowing site specific chemical control is the subject of one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of modern science - introducing the potential for the creation of new materials and the development of new technologies with dramatic implications for advances in such fields as nanotechnology, quantum electronics and biophysics.
Apr 10th, 2008
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More than 300 middle- and high-school students see how nanotechnology is enabling 'New Energy, Clean Environment, Bright Future'
Apr 10th, 2008
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Nanotechnology could solve lithium battery charging problems
Apr 10th, 2008
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The NMP Finland Conference next week presents the cutting edge of Finnish nanotechnology, materials and new production technologies. The conference provides an opportunity to meet the leading companies and partners behind the new technologies.
Apr 9th, 2008
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