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Researchers develop new technique for fabricating nanowire circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), collaborating collaborating with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating ...





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Pioneering medical nanotechnology offers new cancer breakthrough hope

Pioneering medical nanotechnology offers new cancer breakthrough hope

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester could be potentially paving the way for the development of a powerful new strategy for both the early diagnosis and treatment of prostate ...


Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization

Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, ...


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New angle on gecko research: Scientists discover trigger that deploys geckos' amazing grip

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Geckos are very adept at climbing through difficult terrain using an intricate adhesive system. Until now it has not been known when and how they switch on their unique system of traction.


Scientists demonstrate effect of confining dielectrics on semiconductor nanowire conductivity

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), have demonstrated, for the first time, that the activation energy ...


Using synthetic evolution to study the brain: Researchers model key part of neurons

Biology / Evolution

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

The human brain has evolved over millions of years to become a vast network of billions of neurons and synaptic connections. Understanding it is one of humankind's greatest pursuits.


Mouse brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function after stroke

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japanese research group led by Professor Junichi Nabekura in National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS, Japan, found that, after cerebral stroke in one side of the mouse brain, another side of the brain rewires ...


Seattle area could see record-setting high temperatures this week

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Western Washington is braced for unusually hot weather this week, but University of Washington scientists say this could be one for the record books, with Seattle experiencing historic triple-digit readings.


Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.


Danaher buying MDS, Life Technologies unit

Technology / Business

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Danaher Corp. said Wednesday it will shed about twice as many existing jobs and plants as previously announced and also buy a global provider of medical instruments to analyze molecules.


A more direct delivery of cancer drugs to tumors

A more direct delivery of cancer drugs to tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has demonstrated a better way to deliver ...



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