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European Science Awards honor 'the best that Europe has to offer'

The winners included experts in the mysterious dark energy, a team developing molecular motors, climate experts, medical researchers and an economist. This year the award ceremony featured three prizes: the Descartes Prize for Transnational Collaborative Research, the Marie Curie Excellence Awards and the Science Communication Prize.

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Professor Toh-Ming Lu named fellow of the Materials Research Society

Toh-Ming Lu, the R.P. Baker Distinguished Professor of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named a lifetime fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). The MRS has recognized Lu for his contributions to the advancement of materials research, specifically his 'seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding of thin film morphological evolution.'

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University of Toronto nanotechnology expert awarded $10m grant from Saudi university

Acclaimed nanotechnology researcher Ted Sargent has been awarded a $10 million dollar grant from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia - an international graduate-level research university set to open in September 2009.

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Einblicke in lebende Zellen in ungekannter Schaerfe: 'Nanolive'-Projekt entwickelt STED-Mikroskopie weiter

Ein Forschungsverbund aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft will die von Professor Stefan Hell erfundene 'Lichtmikroskopie in ungekannter Schaerfe' in eine biomedizinische Routinemethode ueberfuehren.

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Carbon nanotubes outperform copper nanowires as interconnects

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a road map that brings academia and the semiconductor industry one step closer to realizing carbon nanotube interconnects, and alleviating the current bottleneck of information flow that is limiting the potential of computer chips in everything from personal computers to portable music players.

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International Summer School on OLED lighting

The European ICT research project OLLA organizes its fourth and last edition of the International Summer School on OLEDs. During this event an international group of top experts will explain and discuss the latest developments and challenges of Organic Light Emitting Diodes, a new and promising lighting technology.

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Stopping and freezing a bullet

The cooling of atoms to near absolute zero has been possible thanks largely to laser-based techniques, but only about 10 percent of elements in the periodic table have the necessary atomic level structure. A new two-step technique promises to cool atoms representing 90 percent of the elements.

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Wellcome Image Awards 2008

Bold, beautiful and groundbreaking, this year's Wellcome Image Awards delve deep into our understanding of modern medicine and science.

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UC Berkeley and Stanford University launch joint stem cell research

Two leaders in biomedical research - the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University School of Medicine - will join forces in a new stem cell initiative that will catalyze research and serve as a magnet for scholars from around the world.

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Innovations that could change the way you manufacture

A new SME initiative outlines what's hot, what's not, and what's 'green'

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Next date for US Patent Office 'Nanotechnology Customer Partnership Meeting' announced

This meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 22, 2008, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, in the South Auditorium, Madison Building, Concourse Level, located at 600 Dulany Street, in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Nano-scale structures made from DNA: study

Best known as the blueprint for life, DNA is also a marvel of architecture that can be used to build 3-D structures measured in billionths of a metre, according to a study released Wednesday.

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Yan earns prestigious Sloan Foundation fellowship

Hao Yan, a Biodesign Institute researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named the recipient of a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship.

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Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine more effective than traditional shot

A novel aerosol version of the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, administered directly to the lungs as an oral mist, offers significantly better protection against the disease in experimental animals than a comparable dose of the traditional injected vaccine, researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Copolymers block out new approaches to microelectronics

NIST researchers reported at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society how they have improved manipulation of so-called block copolymers - polymers made of a mixture of two or more different molecule building blocks that are tethered at a junction point - which can form arrays of tiny dots that could be used as the basis for electronic components that pack terabytes (1000 gigabytes) of memory in something as small as a pack of gum.

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A new industrial-scale process for making big molecules with a big future

Scientists are reporting discovery of a new method that will enable manufacturers to produce industrial-size batches of dendrimers for the first time.

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