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Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...
Nervy research: Researchers take initial look at ion channels in a model system
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Before one of your muscles can twitch, before the thought telling it to flex can race down your nerve, a tiny floodgate of sorts -- called an ion channel -- must open in the surface of each cell in these organs ...
Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, ...
JQI researchers create entangled photons from quantum dots
Nov 18, 2009 |
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To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement—the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even when they are completely shielded from one another. Now, physicists ...
NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...
Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 18, 2009 |
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If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution ...
Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions
Dec 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...
'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 18, 2009 |
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The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze ...
Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor
Nov 15, 2009 |
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- th ...
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