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Scientists reproduce adhesive shellfish proteins with artificial polymers

Chemists can learn from some shellfish. Mussels, for example, produce an adhesive that sticks strongly to metal and stone, even under water. Chemists have reproduced the protein responsible for this in a synthetic material that contains the same adhesive elements.

November 17, 2008 Read more

The Bourne Report to Reveal its 2008 Annual List of the Ten Coolest Consumer Products

Bourne Research LLC today announced that it will reveal its 3rd Annual list of the Ten Coolest Consumer Products of 2008 live during its broadcast of The Bourne Report on November 23rd.

November 17, 2008 Read more

The first metropolitan quantum cryptography network will be available in Spain by 2010

Researchers from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid have developed a prototype metropolitan quantum key distribution network that will be ready for deployment by Telefonica on any Spanish urban telecommunications network by 2010.

November 17, 2008 Read more

Chemists discover a new class of exceptionally effective catalysts

A new class of exceptionally effective chemical catalysts that promote the powerful olefin metathesis reaction has been discovered by a team of Boston College and MIT scientists, opening up a vast new scientific platform to researchers in medicine, biology and materials.

November 16, 2008 Read more

New technique can track whole-molecule changes occuring during extremely rapid reactions

Japanese and Israeli scientists have developed a technique that can track whole-molecule changes that occur during extremely rapid cis-trans isomerisation reactions.

November 16, 2008 Read more

Abu Dhabi to set up nanotechnology research center

Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research today (KUSTR) in Abu Dhabi announced it will set up a nanotechnology research center in collaboration with the Asian Nano Forum.

November 16, 2008 Read more

Submissions open for SPMage09 Nanotechnology Image Contest

The SPMage09 competition has the aim to recognize the important contributions to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology that have been made by the many nano initiatives underway around the world. An international jury of prominent researchers in the field of SPM will judge the images submitted to the Image Prize competition.

November 14, 2008 Read more

U.S. Army looks to nanotechnology for disruptive military technology

Two weeks from now, from December 1-4, the U.S. Army will host the 26th installment of its annual Army Science Conference in Orlando, Florida.

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SPIE Photonics Innovation Summit speakers illuminate paths to technology's R+D success

The modern world is the result of innovations developed under a model that no longer works, and companies that want to progress need to employ a new paradigm of open collaboration, reiterated speakers at the well-received SPIE Photonics Innovation Summit on 6 November in the San Francisco-Silicon Valley area.

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Cambridge University's latest material technologies on display

The latest research from Cambridge University on Material Technologies will be showcased at a Horizon seminar taking place at Magdalene College next month.

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New clinical electron linear accelerator will make cancer treatment safer

A new piece of medical technology unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) today will help improve the success rates of radiotherapy cancer treatments. The new clinical electron linear accelerator (linac) will help ensure patients are treated with accurate doses of radiation.

November 14, 2008 Read more

Nanobioscience and nanomedicine are featured themes during NanoCareer Day at UAlbany NanoCollege

Building on the highly popular event that introduces elementary, middle- and high-school students to nanotechnology, more than 300 students received an up-close look at nanobioscience and nanomedicine while attending NanoCareer Day today at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany.

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A revolution for the science of diagnosis

A team of scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK has invented a biosensor device that can identify disease using nanotechnology.

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Nanoparticle surface plasmon resonance could improve the sensitivity of detecting molecules at low concentrations

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that the surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles in a periodic array can have considerably narrower spectral widths than those of isolated metal nanoparticles.

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Molecular trees and sugar cuffs are components for nanotubes with tailored surfaces

Organic nanotubes could make rapid strides as functional nanomaterials in a new approach to nanoelectronics and biomedicine, as they can be made of easily varied and modified building blocks.

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New scattering data suggests that gluons make only a small contribution to the spin of protons and neutrons

Scientists have acquired more clues in the mystery of how the spin, or intrinsic angular momentum of a nucleon (proton or neutron), results from its constituent parts, quarks and gluons. Marco Stratmann at RIKEN?s Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Wako and co-workers have used new scattering data to determine that the contribution from gluons is likely to be small.

November 14, 2008 Read more