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Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated ...


Technology strikes a chord with algal biofuels

Technology / Energy

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

An award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory sound-wave technology is helping Solix Biofuels, Inc. optimize production of algae-based fuel in a cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally benign fashion—paving the way ...


Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects

Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough ...


Mystery of bat with an extraordinary nose solved

Mystery of bat with an extraordinary nose solved

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 6

A research paper co-written by a Virginia Tech faculty member explains a 60-year mystery behind a rare bat's nose that is unusually large for its species. The findings soon will be published in the scientific ...


I'm forever imploding bubbles

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed the first sensor capable of measuring localized ultrasonic cavitation - the implosion of bubbles in a liquid when a high frequency sound wave is applied. The sensor will ...