Revealing the fluctuations of flexible DNA in 3-D
First-of-their-kind images by Berkeley Lab-led research team could aid in use of DNA to build nanoscale devices.
Mar 30th, 2016
Read moreFirst-of-their-kind images by Berkeley Lab-led research team could aid in use of DNA to build nanoscale devices.
Mar 30th, 2016
Read moreNew educational videos and a nanotech-enabled superhero contest are among new activities to educate and inspire students to prepare for high-tech jobs of the future.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreOver millennia, bacteria have evolved a variety of specialized mechanisms to move themselves through their particular environments. In two recent studies researchers used a state-of-the-art imaging technique to capture, for the first time, three-dimensional views of this tiny complicated machinery in bacteria.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreScientists have shown that nanoparticles can function to target tumors while avoiding adjacent healthy tissue in human cancer patients.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have developed a technique that uses antibody-coated nanoparticles as imaging probes to watch cell-to-cell interactions under microfluid conditions.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreHigh-tech metal alloys are widely used in important materials such as the cladding that protects the fuel inside a nuclear reactor. But even the best alloys degrade over time. Now, researchers has found a way of greatly reducing the damaging effects these metals suffer from exposure to hydrogen.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreThe worries that even nanotechnology proponents had in the early 2000s about possible health and environmental risks - and their impact on investor and consumer confidence - seem to have evaporated. So what's changed?
Mar 29th, 2016
Read morePhysicists have discovered unexpected effects in doped graphene - i.e. graphene that is mixed with foreign atoms.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have found that quantum effects are the reason that hydrogen sulphide - which has the distinct smell of rotten eggs- behaves as a superconductor at record-breaking temperatures, which may aid in the search for room temperature superconductors.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have developed a piezo-optomechanical circuit that converts signals among optical, acoustic and radio waves. A system based on this design could move and store information in next-generation computers.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have shown that a law of physics having to do with electron transport at nanoscale can also be analogously applied to the ion transport. This discovery provides insight into a key aspect of how ion channels function within our living cells.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreA new technique developed in pre-clinical models offers a new approach and a read out on the effectiveness of chemotherapy in as few as eight hours after treatment.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreNew theoretical approaches provide insights into chemical bonding and structure from biology to materials.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated the fabrication of electrochemically active organic lithium electrode thin films, which help make microbatteries more efficient than before.
Mar 29th, 2016
Read moreScientists have developed a new method that relies on fluid flow to manipulate and assemble multiple particles. This new technique can trap a range of submicron- to micron-sized particles, including single DNA molecules, vesicles, drops or cells.
Mar 28th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have developed an optical sensor, based on nanostructured metamaterials, that's 1 million times more sensitive than the current best available - one capable of identifying a single lightweight molecule in a highly dilute solution.
Mar 28th, 2016
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