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New security and medical sensor devices made possible by metallic nanostructures

New security and medical sensor devices made possible by metallic nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have designed tiny new sensor structures that could be used in novel security devices to detect poisons and explosives, or in highly sensitive medical sensors, according to research ...


Silicon Micro-islands and Nano-spikes Channel Water on Glass Slides

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed ...


Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A University of Maryland-led team has compiled the first decades-long database of aerosol measurements over land, making possible new research into how air pollution changes affect climate change.





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Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created 9 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...


Gadgets: Card reader helps you shop safer online

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 10 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NetSecure Technologies SmartSwipe credit card reader is a new device to help Internet shoppers or small business owners.


The goal of robot hockey: to become better engineers

The goal of robot hockey: to become better engineers (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created 14 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may be a long time before we see robots shooting pucks and making saves in professional hockey, but second-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Alberta put some pretty ...


RNA on the move

RNA on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...


Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display (AP)

Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

Technology / Hi Tech

created 16 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.


This curvaceous humanoid made of layers of cardboard is billed as the first eco-friendly robot

Robo-chefs and fashion-bots on show in Tokyo

Electronics / Robotics

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Forget the Transformers and Astroboy: Japan's latest robots don't save the world -- they cook snacks, play with your kids, model clothes, and search for disaster victims.


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Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA

Physics / General Physics

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and un ...


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Comcast bid for NBC Universal could be sealed next week: source

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comcast's bid to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal from General Electric could be sealed next week if GE reaches an agreement with Vivendi, a source close to the matter said Wednesday.


Suggestions for tech-happy holidays

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The holiday season is as much a time for tech as for toys. Electronic gadgets are at the top of many wish lists and account for an ever-growing share of holiday shopping budgets. Fortunately for shoppers, tech gifts don't ...


Beer Here

Biology / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beer is a simple act, but making beer is not. It starts out with genetics and tens of thousands of barley varieties and ends with a clear ambrosia that belies the time, effort and technology that ...



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