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'Voltage Patterning' could be next step in nanostructure lithography

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- "What you want these days is to have precise control of nanostructures. Using masks and optical techniques, it is possible to control how nanostructures grow for use in practical applications," David Field ...





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Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.


A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock

A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 7

A clock that is so precise that it loses only a second every 300 million years - this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the ...


Rapid tests often wrong about swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The government's first study of how well rapid tests diagnose swine flu finds they're wrong at least half the time.


Breakthrough uses light to manipulate cell movement

Breakthrough uses light to manipulate cell movement

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

One of the biggest challenges in scientists' quest to develop new and better treatments for cancer is gaining a better understanding of how and why cancer spreads. Recent breakthroughs have uncovered how ...


Study examines the use of light in medical therapy

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study published in a special issue of Photochemistry and Photobiology examines the emerging practice of drug delivery systems which use the application of light to activate medications in the body.


Scientists trace molecular origin of proportional development

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When it comes to embryo formation in the lowly fruit fly, a little molecular messiness actually leads to enhanced developmental precision, according to a study in the Oct. 14 Developmental Cell from Cincinnati Children's Hospit ...


Gesture recognition

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. A related system for the able bodied could also be used to make virtual worlds more realistic. ...


Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy reduces vision loss in optic nerve sheath meningiomas

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Optic nerve sheath meningiomas are rare tumors that are traditionally treated with surgery, which is typically a blinding procedure. However, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have found that a specialized ...


Smell is 'noisy' and 'in shades of grey': Scientists debunk ancient lock-and-key theory

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 5

University of Manchester scientists have overturned the 2,500-year-old theory that smell is detected by simple lock-and-key codes – using maggots with only one working olfactory sensory neuron (OSN), a nose with one nerve ...


Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies

Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after ...



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