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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 Grnberg 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 future n... |
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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The device built at the University of Michigan could revolutionize the understanding of the processes that take place inside living cells, and may bring valuable insight on how or why certain cells grow without control, and damage nerves. The device has a spherical shape, is about 30 nanometers in diameter, and compa... |
3 December 2007
10:32 GMT |
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Ladies know why diamonds are their best friends: because they can turn people healthy. A new research carried at the Northwestern University and published in Nano Letters has revealed that nanodiamonds could be the new class of medical nanomaterials for delivering anti-cancer chemicals to cells without the negative s... |
12 November 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Nanotechnology is the way to go, scientists say. As science evolves towards smaller devices, single electron devices are considered one way for computing and other electronic applications and also provide a way to better understand the quantum state in a controllable manner.Researches in Korea might have already foun... |
7 November 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Most of the electronic devices produced today in the world use a kind of computer chip or microprocessor in their components. The scientists are asking themselves how further we can push back the miniaturization process, to create smaller, cheaper and faster chips. European researchers say there is plenty of scope to... |
7 November 2007
05:55 GMT |
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USB Flash Drives are probably the most popular means of data transportation around, but, for the time being, their storage capacities are quite far from the ones provided by HDDs. However, it would seem that things are about to change radically, as the Arizona State University's Center for Applied Nanoionics (CA... |
29 October 2007
13:56 GMT |
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The researchers' obsession for nanotechnology is getting bigger every day, from carbon nanotubes to metamaterials and now industrial-grade nanowires. At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) a new method for creating nanowires is being tested.Nanowires are tiny metal rods created of rows of ... |
27 October 2007
06:54 GMT |
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We know that viruses 'produce' only diseases. But what if they could produce even ... devices?A MIT team led by Angela Belcher, a professor of materials science and biological engineering, has managed to use viruses that cling together in a solution to form fibers several centimeters long and almost as stro... |
17 October 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Science fiction materials have turned real. Steel strong plastic has been created by a team at the University of Michigan by imitating the brick-and-mortar molecular structure of the seashells. But unlike steel, the new material is lighter and transparent, even if not stretchy enough. The new plastic is built of lay... |
5 October 2007
04:23 GMT |
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This is like a knife for the bacteria: a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has made a razor-like material on the "cutting edge" of nanotechnology. The nanoblades are made of magnesium and result from a different nanostructure growth technique than the traditional one. But we won't cut bacteria with them;... |
26 September 2007
04:53 GMT |
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If the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Burst) is the "mother of all bombs", the newly tested Russian bomb is the "father of all bombs". The Russian air force has just tested a huge fuel-air bomb which is the biggest non-nuclear explosive device ever produced. A Tupolev-160 "Blackjack" supersonic bomber dropped the bomb ov... |
13 September 2007
06:51 GMT |
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Miniaturization is the key word to the entire computer hardware manufacturing industry as all the producers are constantly looking for new ways to increase the performance of their products while maintaining the same relative dimensions. As Moore's Law is still true and the number of the components inside a comp... |
7 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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In a reality flooded by Harry Potter and science fiction movies, levitation has turned into a fact. The same physicists that showed last year that invisibility cloaks are feasible, now have turned to levitation. The team at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, has made an 'incredible levitation effects' ... |
20 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The development of nanotechnology brings us back to an old dream we had long before using silicon chips and transistors - namely a mechanical computer. This dream never came true, but now - when components of a computer can have such dimensions of a millionth the thickness of the human hair - it seems closer than eve... |
10 August 2007
11:35 GMT |
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A nano sized computer is not really a new and original idea as it has been around for decades in Sci-Fi books and magazines. The new idea is to actually construct them and to use a 200 years old concept, as the nano chip will be in fact a machine inspired by the works of the nineteenth century English mathematician a... |
25 July 2007
10:44 GMT |
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The history of aviation, though short (only a bit more than a century) has known the greatest advances in terms of design technology, building materials and performances of civilian and military aircraft. The first planes were made of wood, cardboard and cloth, now they are built using the latest development in arti... |
19 June 2007
12:25 GMT |
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Fingerprints remain the main tool in identifying a criminal. If fingerprints revealed more, the pool of subjects would be greatly diminished, easing forensic investigations. A team from the University of East Anglia in Norwich and King's College in London led by David A. Russell has succeeded in employing specif... |
25 May 2007
08:45 GMT |
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Inserting a gene into a cell is hard work. But it is even harder when it's about a plant cell. Now a team of Iowa State University has managed to do it and to trigger the gene's expression with controlled precision by using nanotechnology, a fact that could boost it as a novel powerful tool for delivery pro... |
17 May 2007
05:14 GMT |
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Nanotechnology has found yet another application in our lives and helps us recover some of the most precious works of art from as early as the Renaissance. It's a new development and a simple and cheap method for cleaning up paintings.The new method works like a nano scrub, using oil-in water nanocontainers to ... |
15 May 2007
07:48 GMT |
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Just recently, the world's smallest book was published by Robert Chaplin at the Nano Imaging Facility of Simon Fraser University. This book, complete with an International Standard Book Number (ISBN-978-1-894897-17-4), is entitled "Teeny Ted From Turnip Town". It was written by Malcolm Douglas Chaplin and is a ... |
16 April 2007
11:13 GMT |
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For the past decade, nanotubes were considered to be the best candidate for replacing silicon in the competition for miniaturization of the computer industry.Unfortunately, they still had disadvantages, being difficult to arrange precisely, and hard to wire to the outside world without losing much of their vaunted e... |
11 April 2007
06:57 GMT |
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After the earlier March announced partnership between Nokia and Cambridge University, the Finnish telecommunication giant, decided to keep the pace on the nanotechnology research and made publicly a new agreement - with the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. The two organisations will work together on select... |
28 March 2007
04:29 GMT |
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"Spintronics" is an emerging field that deals with the use of the 'spin' of an electron for storing, processing and communicating information, and is has known an important recent advance that may one day manifest itself in a new generation of smaller, smarter and faster computers, sensors and other device... |
27 March 2007
06:23 GMT |
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A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a pair of molecular-scale scissors that open and close in response to light. "They measure just three nanometers in length, small enough to deliver drugs into cells or manipulate genes and other biological molecules", says Takuzo Aida, Ph.D., professor... |
26 March 2007
05:11 GMT |
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An UCLA team has imagined and mass-produced billions of fluorescent microscale polymeric particles in the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet in a liquid solution displaying "exquisite fidelity of the shapes". The "LithoParticles" could have important technological and scientific uses. "We can even choose the fo... |
22 March 2007
09:36 GMT |
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Nanotechnology and the study of very small robots that could one day do a lot of good has been one important aspect for a number of researchers and the applications in which these robots could be used are many. A similar process has begun in the computer industry with the introduction of smaller and yet smaller compo... |
21 March 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Nokia and the University of Cambridge have announced a long-term research partnership which will focus on the field of nanotechnology. It's pretty clear that Nokia has accepted the challenge from Samsung which has the slimmest handsets on the market at the moment (Samsung U100 5.9 mm and several others between 7... |
7 March 2007
03:57 GMT |
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A breakthrough in creating robocops has been achieved: the world's first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films. The achievement made by a team at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Michigan is the first step towards an artific... |
5 March 2007
07:31 GMT |
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