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Nanotechnology work may soon lead to better laptop, cell phone displays

Advance in creating inexpensive polarized light may lead to better displays on laptop computers, cell phones and other devices.

September 18, 2007 Read more

Quiet end to technology agency lamented

A provision in the competitiveness legislation that President Bush signed in August deletes the Commerce Department agency charged with bringing U.S. innovation from laboratories to the marketplace.

September 17, 2007 Read more

Scientists unlock secrets of protein folding

A team from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes.

September 17, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology could make solar energy as easy and cheap as growing grass

Podcast explores how nanotechnology can help capture and store the sun's energy.

September 17, 2007 Read more

Scientists reveal DNA-enzyme interaction with first ever real time footage

For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real-time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus.

September 17, 2007 Read more

New nanoparticle vaccine is more effective but less expensive

Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction of the cost of current vaccine technologies.

September 17, 2007 Read more

Engineers design computer memory in nanoscale form that retrieves data 1,000 times faster

Scientists have have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives, all using less power and space than current memory technologies.

September 17, 2007 Read more

Bone-growing nanomaterial could improve orthopaedic implants

For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of engineers has discovered a new material that could significantly increase this success rate.

September 17, 2007 Read more

Cornell gets $2.9M for training grad students in nanoscience

A new $2.9 million graduate student training program at Cornell, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will help bridge the problematic gap among various scientific disciplines, in an effort to solve common problems a range of scientists face.

September 17, 2007 Read more

From quantum computers to the quantum internet?

Physicists have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky."

September 15, 2007 Read more

Italian PhD scholarships in nanotechnologies and nanostructured innovative materials

Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato is a special project whereby the three Italian Technical Universities, the Polytechnic of Torino, the Polytechnic of Bari and the Polytechnic of Milano, aim to offering a joint PhD program of high qualification in the areas that the three Polytechnics consider strategic.

September 14, 2007 Read more

Micro- and nanosensor smart system to wake up sleepy drivers

Greek Transport Institute IMET at the National Center for Research and Technology Development in Thessaloniki is working on a smart system that will be able to monitor alertness levels in drivers, recognize symptoms of sleepiness and give drivers a wake-up call.

September 14, 2007 Read more