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In their quest for ever-smaller and ever-faster computer chips and transistors, scientists have, over the past few years, dedicated enormous amounts of time, energy, and money to producing electronics at the smallest scale possible. This has gone all well and good for some years, but now this field of research is app... |
13 November 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a number of groundbreaking discoveries have been made that could easily change the ways in which we look at producing electronics. Advancements have been registered on all fronts, including in nanotechnology (smaller wires), polymers (organic electronics), and, last but not least, materials. ... |
4 November 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Scientists at the Duke University have recently announced the development of a new type of nanoscale drug delivery system, which shows great promise for treating cancer. According to the experts, animal models that had developed cancer had their tumors annihilated by chemotherapy drugs loaded onto the new cells after... |
2 November 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have recently announced the creation of a new type of microcapsules, similar to the ones used in carbon-free paper, but much improved. They add that the new design is a significant improvement from the other type of microcapsules that burst and release thei... |
29 October 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Nanotechnology is today perhaps the most promising research field in the world. In the future, scientists believe that a large number of innovations will be based on it, ranging from better solar sensors, to better computer and electronics devices, and better treatments for a large number of conditions. However, in o... |
22 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Rome, in Italy, proposed last year that small-scale motors might be powered by bacteria, an idea that caught on well in the scientific community, and spawned a number of follow-up studies. The physicists say that, in principle, if you attach self-propelling bacteria to a cog, then the mic... |
19 October 2009
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Over the past few years, numerous and important advancements have been made in the battery industry, with scientists developing ever smaller and more effective devices for a wide range of applications. In fact, it was progress in the industry that allowed car manufacturers to ponder releasing all-electric vehicle lin... |
8 October 2009
13:41 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper, published in the September 22nd issue of the respected scientific journal ACS Nano, experts at the University of Liverpool finally managed to discover what happened to nanoparticles after they were introduced in human cells. The study, which was funded by the Biotechnology and Bio... |
23 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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UltraFast Innovations GmbH is a joint initiative from German researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), in Munich, and the Max Planck Society (MPS), which aims at providing research communities with dedicated optical systems, capable of keeping track of things as small as electrons moving from one ... |
17 September 2009
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Micro- and nanotechnology are two of the fields of research with the largest following to date, as they hold the keys to creating the most advanced devices of the future, on principles that do not necessarily pertain to physics as we know it. From a certain level of miniaturization forward, interactions between parti... |
1 September 2009
11:03 GMT |
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The future of nanoengineering, and of any science involving the use of nanomaterials for that matter, is entirely dependent on tools that allow for precise measurements of the events unfolding at the nanoscale, while at the same time correcting errors that may appear in the process. Experts at the Georgia Institute o... |
2 July 2009
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Despite the fact that numerous research teams around the globe are currently working to develop the best possible cloaking technology, the methods that exist at this point are very hard to achieve, cost a lot of money to operate, and are also unable to hide larger objects from view. But a breakthrough, achieved by ex... |
21 May 2009
09:44 GMT |
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Harvard Medical School (HMS) experts announced in the Wednesday issue of the scientific journal Nature that they'd managed to create 3-dimensional constructs in the lab, using nothing but pieces of DNA for the job. Their structures have been made in intricate shapes, and rely solely on the acid's ability to... |
21 May 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Experts at the Houston-based University of Texas Health Science Center (HSC) will have the honor of having their nano-fluidics experiments being ferried to orbit aboard NASA's delivery systems. The deal states that SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft, blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center, a part ... |
12 May 2009
10:15 GMT |
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The next step in administering antiviral drugs, especially for STDs, could be through the use of biodegradable nanoparticles, able to carry microRNA strands directly to the place of infection and deliver the tiny acid overtime. One day, the innovation, made possible by the efforts of a Yale research team, could resul... |
4 May 2009
10:01 GMT |
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According to a growing consent among academics in the United States, the country is ill-equipped to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century, in terms of protecting both the environment and the safety and health off its citizens. That is to say, the existing agencies, far from being incapable, simply find i... |
28 April 2009
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As the quest for the smallest material and basic components of matter accelerates, scientists around the world are currently faced with a more and more pressing issue – the lack of appropriate means of investigating single atoms and molecules. They require a tool that can detect even the smallest amounts of mov... |
27 April 2009
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Over the past few years, a lot of time, money and effort have been directed towards making algae a viable source of alternative fuels, on account of the fact that some people are really interested in combating global warming and in offering the world replacements for coal, oil and natural gas. However, the amounts of... |
8 April 2009
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At this point, there's no doubt in the minds of engineers that nanowires are the building material of the future, suited to construct everything from next-generation computer chips to the ominous space elevator to orbit. Still, before these goals become a reality, there are some painstaking details to work out, ... |
3 April 2009
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Creating nanoparticles that have the ability to “guide” others into specifically designed positions is a thing that would undoubtedly open doors to the creation of a new class of devices. These future gadgets would have the ability to arrange themselves in the correct patterns inside spaces such as our ce... |
1 April 2009
09:42 GMT |
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The idea of linking up nanoparticles via the use of modified DNA is not a new one, and researchers have recently made some headway in that direction, when they have created pyramid-shaped structures made from the acid, with each of them housing a single nanoparticle. Now, it would seem that experts from the US Depart... |
31 March 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Applied physicists at Harvard University in Massachusetts, led by Federico Capasso, managed to set the groundwork for a new class of tiny electronic devices that will incorporate nanomechanics, to be applied in various areas of next-generation technological development. Basically, the team managed to figure out how t... |
8 January 2009
08:26 GMT |
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Endowing your average food package or beverage with electronics designed to monitor its temperature and store other useful information about the product seems a thing of the future at this point in time, but researchers worldwide, who are currently working on ways to print circuits directly on their substrate, ensure... |
6 January 2009
07:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the Catholic University of America, in Washington DC, managed to discover the mechanisms employed by the “nano-motors” inside viruses. This discovery is remarkable because it allows scientists to replicate, or even sabotage the engines,... |
30 December 2008
06:16 GMT |
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The potential that nanotechnology has on our daily lives is largely unnoticed by people in the United States and in some European countries, such as Austria, Italy and Ireland, where religion plays a larger role in society. The benefits of such a revolutionary way of looking at things are shadowed by millennia of rel... |
8 December 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Professor Tahir Cagin, from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is one of the most renowned experts in nanotechnology and piezoelectricity in the world, having received multiple awards over the years, including the prestigious Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology. His work now fo... |
2 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Uber-fast computers operating 1,000 times the actual speed, 10 times more powerful magnifying microscopes, able to spy on the DNA directly, more efficient solar energy capturing devices, enhanced sensors or invisibility cloaks are only a few of the goals that the new optical science field promises to achieve. If prop... |
21 October 2008
06:27 GMT |
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The US Army plans to invest massively in developing improved technology for waging the wars of the future. Simultaneously, their recruitment approaches become more aggressive.Thomas Killion, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, believes that developing nanobots will be a great asset... |
15 October 2008
08:16 GMT |
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That old game with a metal sphere running through a plastic maze is definitely one image some of us will never forget. But as time goes by, things are changing fast and it seems like so do our toys. From the simplest to the most advanced and sophisticated toys, everything gets a new character, pretty much in strong c... |
26 September 2008
05:17 GMT |
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William Yuan, a Beaverton, Oregon 12-year boy, invented a new kind of solar cell that can absorb both visible and ultraviolet light. I bet this kind of news makes you feel pretty weird about your own accomplishments so far. It sure made me. And, to scare you even further, I took a look at little Will'... |
18 September 2008
10:30 GMT |
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A new study published yesterday implies that carbon nanotubes may behave like asbestos when being inhaled in particular quantities. Similar to asbestos, carbon nanotubes may triggers a form of lung cancer known as mesothelioma, which appears within three to four decades after the exposure. Simply put, the study says ... |
21 May 2008
08:10 GMT |
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Gallium-arsenide semiconductor material is to optoelectronic devices much like silicon to computer microprocessors and microchips. However, while silicon processes electronic signals, gallium-arsenide is used to convert electric energy into light. Basically, any light emitting diode and LED laser works on the basis o... |
23 April 2008
06:39 GMT |
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IBM is currently working on a new breed of memory chips, that is alleged to deliver extended reliability at cheaper costs than the existing DDRAM offerings. According to the company, the new type of memory is an interesting mixture of the technologies used in solid-state storage media and hard-disk drives.Shortly put... |
11 April 2008
06:59 GMT |
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Knowing how solid surfaces interact with liquids is often required in domains such as chemical industry or nanotechnology, but so far nobody succeeded to describe these interactions in simple mathematical formulas. Every time scientists tried to explain the phenomenon through experiments in this field, calculations b... |
9 April 2008
05:57 GMT |
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LEDs have been in our lives for some time now. They are more efficient than any other lighting device before them, can produce any desired color and have a life span much longer than that of light bulbs and fluorescent tubes. However, they are still imperfect. For example, light-emitting diodes currently present on t... |
24 March 2008
09:38 GMT |
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The Janus particle name is given to any microscopic sphere which is composed of two halves that are chemically or physically different. North Carolina State University researchers have demonstrated that while being submerged into a liquid excited by an alternating electrical field, Janus particles start to behave lik... |
3 March 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge unveiled today - Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept. The newly developed concept was launched recently alongside the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Morph is a concept... |
25 February 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Check this! Researchers over at Georgia Institute of Technology say that T-shirts with built-in nanotechnology may soon power up your mp3 player. Imagine not depending on power sockets at home or at work to power up your iPod! As it always goes, a mechanical process converts into energy, and this time it's the m... |
15 February 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Nanotube technology is finally showing its true power by creating the first nanotube radio out of carbon nanotube materials. This represents an important step for the introduction of carbon nanotube structures into the world of analog electronics and applications that derive directly from this branch. The claim is de... |
29 January 2008
09:56 GMT |
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The carbon nanopipette, which can also be used to inject certain fluids into cells without damaging or disable the growing of the respective cell, is the smallest of its kind, with a width measuring only a thousand of the diameter of a human hair. Such micropipettes made out of glass can be routinely found in researc... |
16 January 2008
10:11 GMT |
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In 1965, Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, predicted that the processing power of computers will double every two years, meaning that the number of transistors placed inexpensively of a microchip will increase exponentially. Moore's law, as it is currently known, describes pretty accurately the computing adv... |
14 January 2008
07:20 GMT |
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The nervous swim of a sperm attempting to make you a father could soon have applications others than reproduction. Future minute nanobots could be empowered by whip-like sperm tail imitating structures, wandering around through your whole body.Sperm would solve the issue of energy supply for nanobots, implants and "... |
3 January 2008
13:56 GMT |
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Researchers from Stanford University have discovered a new way to use silicon nanowires in rechargeable batteries that power mobile phones, laptops, video cameras, iPods and other similar devices. The new batteries will be able to store up to ten times more electrical power than existing Li-Ion batteries. "It's ... |
23 December 2007
03:16 GMT |
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The experiment for which Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg received the Novel Prize, for their new discoveries in the field of magnetism, concentrates mostly on the study of magnetic cores on the nanoscale, which seem to present extremely stable magnetization, which could potentially be used in the developing of the fut... |
20 December 2007
10:52 GMT |
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Who else needs explosives most, except the army? Well, many people do if you ask me, except most of them will never get their hands on them. And after the developing of this new small copper structure by Georgia Tech Research Institute, it might not matter anymore if you have the explosive or not, as long as you can... |
19 December 2007
09:57 GMT |
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If you are still waiting for the hydrogen powered electric cars, then this info should really make your day. The two problems related to the mass production of fuel cells, the efficiency of extracting electric energy and the relatively high cost of such cells, could be both resolved with the invention of a new materi... |
17 December 2007
06:38 GMT |
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In Europe, diseases steal annually 500 million workdays. Decreased productivity and high medical costs are paid by all of us. And do not believe that only in developing countries people do not have access to medical care: 46 million people in US do not have medical insurance. Science fights hard to eradicate infectio... |
14 December 2007
07:02 GMT |
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Indeed, the question in the subtitle isn't at all a joke. So far we've seen all sorts of daily gear getting smaller and smaller, in an endless challenge for miniaturization, heading for the ultimate portability; if some tens of years ago bigger was better, we could say that today "smaller AND better is bett... |
11 December 2007
05:58 GMT |
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LED, or light emitting diodes, are recognized for their properties of providing low power, color rich, long lived lighting sources, however they might already be out of date, as recently a new type of LED has been designed, by using the quantum-dot technology. It seems that the new quantum-dot LED, or QDLED, is far b... |
10 December 2007
10:57 GMT |
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Scientists have designed the first nano-robot that is able to detect individual bacteria and could have potential wide range applications such as biological defense, shortening the time needed for the development of new antibiotics. The tiny rotating sphere, is equipped with sensors for bacteria and malicious micro-o... |
10 December 2007
04:49 GMT |
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