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Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter -- have been highly touted for potential applications such as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for ...


New hydrogen-storage method discovered

New hydrogen-storage method discovered

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (43) | comments 15

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach ...


India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks (AP)

India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- All elephants living in Indian zoos and circuses will be moved to wildlife parks and game sanctuaries where the animals can graze more freely, officials said Friday.


Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize ...


Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time

Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh ...


New technology detects chemical weapons in seconds

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast are developing new sensors to detect chemical agents and illegal drugs which will help in the fight against the threat of terrorist attacks.


World's most sensitive astronomical camera developed

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

A team of Université de Montréal researchers, led by physics PhD student Olivier Daigle, has developed the world's most sensitive astronomical camera. Marketed by Photon etc., a young Quebec firm, the camera ...


Diamonds are a laser's best friend

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow's lasers may come with a bit of bling, thanks to a new technology that uses man-made diamonds to enhance the power and capabilities of lasers. Researchers in Australia have now demonstrated the first ...


Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other

Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both excentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and besides, very young.


Discovery to aid study of biological structures, molecules

Discovery to aid study of biological structures, molecules

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the United States and Spain have discovered that a tool widely used in nanoscale imaging works differently in watery environments, a step toward better using the instrument ...


Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals

Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other more ...


Scientists closer to making implantable bone material

Scientists closer to making implantable bone material

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are closer to understanding how to grow replacement bones with stem cell technology, thanks to research published today in the journal Nature Materials.


Scientists say that microbial mats built 3.4-billion-year-old stromatolites

Scientists say that microbial mats built 3.4-billion-year-old stromatolites

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology ...


Harnessing Nanoparticles To Track Cancer Cell Changes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The more dots there are, the more accurate a picture you get when you connect them. Cancer researchers adopting that philosophy have developed a new imaging technology that could give scientists the ability to simultaneously ...


Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes, one of the original engineered nanomaterials, also may prove to be among the most versatile, as numerous teams of investigators continue to develop novel nanotube-based therapeutic and diagnostic tools. ...