Nanoparticles self-assemble through chemical lithography
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Nanoparticles – while possessing some amazing properties of strength and power – are also delicate little things, when it comes to manipulating them for use in nanodevices. Many scientists consider that the ...
Sandia work shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Far above the heads of Earthlings, arrays of single-cell creatures are circling Earth in nanostructures. The sample devices are riding on the International Space Station (courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories ...
Add nanotubes and stir-with the right force
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Polymer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have some stirring results to share with researchers and companies developing new, advanced composite materials with carbon nanotubes--mix ...
MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity
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For the first time, MIT scientists have directly observed the transition of a gas to a superfluid, a form of matter closely related to the superconductors that allow electrical currents to travel without resistance.
Sales method pays off for materials scientists
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The same computer methods used by online sales sites to suggest books to customers can help predict the crystal structures of materials, MIT researchers have found.
Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety
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Critical advances in medicine and environmental protection promise to emerge from a new method for biochemical analysis of fluids developed by an international science team led in part by Arizona State University researchers.
Novel nano-etched cavity makes leds 7 times brighter
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) more than seven times brighter by etching nanoscale grooves in a surrounding cavity to ...
Cassini Reveals Earth-like Land on Titan
Jul 20, 2006 |
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New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon Titan.
Rice scientists unveil 'nanoegg'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have unveiled the "nanoegg," the latest addition to their family ultrasmall, light-focusing particles. A cousin of the versatile nanoshell, nanoeggs are ...
Putting a face on android science by exploring an uncanny valley
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We might be more responsive to robots designed to look human rather than mechanical, but other factors may determine what causes us to accept or shun these virtual humans.
'Micro-boxes' of water used to study single molecules
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the use of water droplets as minuscule "boxes" for small numbers of biomolecules. The unusually simple containment method may enable easier ...
Atomic-resolution structure of a ribozyme yields insights into RNA catalysis and the origins of life
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Jul 20, 2006 |
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Which came first, nucleic acids or proteins? This question is molecular biology's version of the "chicken-or-the-egg" riddle. Genes made of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) contain the instructions for making proteins, but enzymes ...
Research explains how ecosystems survive in a constantly changing world
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Ecological networks may struggle to survive the systematic changes our planet is undergoing, according to researchers from Queen Mary, University of London.
Bubbles go high-tech to fight tumors
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Bubbles: You've bathed in them, popped them, endured bad song lyrics about them. Now, University of Michigan researchers hope to add a more sophisticated application to the list---gas bubbles used like corks ...
Probing Question: What are computer viruses and where do they come from?
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Just as the flu can spread from human to human, a well-engineered computer virus can transfer from machine to machine--with a bad outbreak affecting tens of thousands, or even millions, of systems. Indeed, ...
