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Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 call for contributions

Nanotech Northern Europe will take place in Copenhagen on September 23-25 2008. The event will feature many of the leading global figures in nanotechnology, from industry, research and the public sector.

December 3, 2007 Read more

Cancer study shows power of interdisciplinary approach

A UCLA cancer study reported in this month's Nature Nanotechnology validates earlier work by MIT engineers, and is emblematic of an explosion in research at the intersections of engineering, the life sciences and medicine, according to MIT Dean of Engineering Subra Suresh.

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Compact, wavelength-on-demand Quantum Cascade Laser chip offers ultra-sensitive chemical sensing

Engineers from Harvard University have demonstrated a highly versatile, compact and portable Quantum Cascade Laser sensor for the fast detection of a large number of chemicals, ranging from infinitesimal traces of gases to liquids, by broad tuning of the emission wavelength.

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Tethered to chip, energy supply that drives sperm could power nanobot

Presented at American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting.

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Singapore sets up nanoscale measurement facility

Singapore today joins the ranks of the advanced countries in being able to make minute measurements with atomic precision with the setting up of a new nano-scale measurement facility here.

December 3, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology institute to be set up in Riyadh

King Abdullah has approved a proposal to set up a nanotechnology institute that will be named after him at a two million square meter facility in Riyadh Techno Valley. The institute will serve as an advanced technology research center for King Saud University (KSU).

December 3, 2007 Read more

Using nanotechnology, cancer cells 'feel' much softer than normal cells

A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists were able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the softness of the cells.

December 2, 2007 Read more

Delaware companies on cutting edge of nanotechnology

UD professors chosen for South Korean project.

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Military lab thinks large, small to develop munitions of future

Someday, the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate might demonstrate a nano-energetic, robo-plane based on a hummingbird's physiology that flies itself into the head of a terrorist drinking thick coffee on a balcony in Beirut, Lebanon, and then explodes.

December 2, 2007 Read more

New nanotechnology calls published under EU FP7

The European Commission has published a number calls for nanoscience and nanotechnology proposals under the Cooperation - Research theme: 'Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies' program of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

December 1, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology, literature, and society

A gathering of researchers in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and engineering to reflect on technological, cultural, literary, ethical, and social aspects of nanotechnology, the burgeoning science of atomic- and molecular-scale engineering and manufacture.

November 30, 2007 Read more

Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells

A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky medical issues as why cancer cells grow out of control and how damaged nerves might be mended.

November 30, 2007 Read more

Aquatic environmental nanoparticles call into question water analysis results, bioremediation impacts

Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not a thin wet line but the huge new field of nanoparticle science.

November 30, 2007 Read more

Rochester Institute of Technology's NanoPower Research Labs receive nearly $4 million in new funding

Rochester Institute of Technology is expanding its research and technology transfer efforts in renewable energy development and sustainability thanks to recent funding awards from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense.

November 30, 2007 Read more

'Too small to see' nanotechnology exhibit at UCSB

In the cutting-edge science of nanotechnology, size matters. Starting tomorrow, a new exhibit on the UCSB campus will give students and community members an opportunity to see why.

November 30, 2007 Read more

Putin to double science spending

President Vladimir Putin promised that science spending would be doubled in two years, adding that it was crucial to ensuring the country's development.

November 30, 2007 Read more