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Toshiba announces family of ultra-efficient, high-speed, low voltage MOSFETs

Toshiba today announced a new family of ultra-high-efficiency, high-speed MOSFETs that deliver significant improvements in trade-off characteristics between low on resistance (RDS(ON)) and low input capacitanc ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Collective action: Occupied genetic switches hold clues to cells' history

If you wanted to draw your family tree, you could start by searching for people who share your surname. Cells, of course, don't have surnames, but scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Metastasis of pancreatic cancer in action

Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Rhim, MD, a Gastroenterology Fellow in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light now in sight: Control of a 'blind' neuroreceptor with an optical switch

When nerve cells communicate with one another, specialized receptor molecules on their surfaces play a central role in relaying signals between them. A collaborative venture involving teams of chemists based at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Development of world’s first functional polymer nanowire fabrication technology by pulsed laser irradiation

Japanese researchers selectively grew polymer nanowires using only irradiation with a pulsed laser, in a region limited to the area of irradiation. They also succeeded in imparting diverse functionalities ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Optogenetics -- Combination switch turns neurons on and off

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flies that display courtship behaviour at the press of a button, worms made to wriggle by remote control: since the dawn of optogenetics, scientists can turn nerve cells on and off using pulses ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New discovery may lead to safer treatments for asthma, allergies and arthritis

Scientists have discovered a missing link between the body's biological clock and sugar metabolism system, a finding that may help avoid the serious side effects of drugs used for treating asthma, allergies and arthritis.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm

New research has found that a protein associated with learning and memory plays an integral role in changing the behaviour of locusts from that of harmless grasshoppers into swarming pests.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The smallest conceivable switch: Targeted proton transfer within a molecule

For a long time miniaturization has been the magic word in electronics. Dr. Willi Auwaerter and Professor Johannes Barth, together with their team of physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover new way to target cancer

Scientists have discovered a new way to target cancer through manipulating a master switch responsible for cancer cell growth.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers invent a switch that could improve electronics

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have invented a new type of electronic switch that performs electronic logic functions within a single molecule. The incorporation of such single-molecule elements could enable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

When will artificial molecular machines start working for us?

Physicist Richard Feynman in his famous 1959 talk, "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," described the precise control at the atomic level promised by molecular machines of the future. More than 50 years later, synthetic molecular ...

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The impending revolution of low-power quantum computers

By 2017, quantum physics will help reduce the energy consumption of our computers and cellular phones by up to a factor of 100. For research and industry, the power consumption of transistors is a key issue. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

How the fly flies: Scientists discover gene switch responsible for flight muscle formation

Flies are real flight artists, although they only have small wings compared to their body size. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, recently identified ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Review: Kindle Fire sacrifices to get under $200

The Kindle was always an odd product name. Amazon used a verb to name a thing, raising the question: Kindle what? Now we have the answer: Kindle Fire.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4