Chip-Sized Particle Accelerators Could Lead to Cancer-Fighting Ray Guns
Forget the gigantic Large Hadron Collider - how about a particle-accelerator-on-a-chip?
OK, so it can't reach the energies produced at
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New Nanocomposite Magnets Could Reduce the Demand for Rare Earth Elements
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Nanotech Makes Single Molecule Glow, Showing New Promise For Tiny Optoelectronics
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With No Reply From NanoSail-D Satellite, NASA Wonders If It Actually Launched at All
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DoD-Funded 'Project Squid Skin' Seeks To Build Ocean-Inspired Camouflage Out Of Metamaterials
Image: Roger Hanlon, Marine Biological Laboratorymore>>
NASA's Tasty-Sounding O/OREOS Mission Launches Today to Study Life's Origins In Outer Space
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Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
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New Fuel-Free System Moves Objects By Dissolving Them At One End and Rebuilding Them At The Other
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Science Wages War Against Mosquitoes: Genetic Engineering, Lasers, and Nano-Attacks
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22.02.11
New Nanocomposite Magnets Could Reduce the Demand for Rare Earth Elements
A little exchange coupling goes a long way.
Rare earth elements are getting a lot of ink these days, as questions about future supply have led to both political and economic tensions, and to a renewed
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Nanotech Makes Single Molecule Glow, Showing New Promise For Tiny Optoelectronics
For the first time, scientists have observed a single molecule emitting light when sandwiched between broken segments of a carbon nanotube. The new device emitted
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With No Reply From NanoSail-D Satellite, NASA Wonders If It Actually Launched at All
Last week's launch of NanoSail-D - NASA's solar sailing nanosatellite that was reportedly launched from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite
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DoD-Funded 'Project Squid Skin' Seeks To Build Ocean-Inspired Camouflage Out Of Metamaterials
Sea creatures like octopus, squid and cuttlefish are among nature's best camouflage artists, changing color to blend into their environments. This is partly because cephalopod skins have some primitive optical abilities - their skin has the same light-sensing proteins
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IBM Unveils Nanophotonic Chips that Could Lead the Exascale Computing Revolution
IBM is prepped to lead the way into the next era of exascale computing, at least if the technology they showed off at a convention today in Chiba, Japan can live up to
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NASA's Tasty-Sounding O/OREOS Mission Launches Today to Study Life's Origins In Outer Space
A nanosatellite no bigger than a loaf of bread -- and named after cookies -- is set to launch today to study the origins of life in the universe.
Its name stands for Organism/Organic
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Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles. This causes the
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New Fuel-Free System Moves Objects By Dissolving Them At One End and Rebuilding Them At The Other
A new fuel-free propulsion system for nanodevices works like a disappearing act, dissolving an object at one end and re-generating it at the other end.
The method requires an electrical current to
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Science Wages War Against Mosquitoes: Genetic Engineering, Lasers, and Nano-Attacks
How do we defeat the world's deadliest creature?
With the recent news that researchers at the University of Queensland are planning on releasing dengue-resistant
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New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
Protein tougher than metal could be used to print out body armor
Printable body armor, better bulletproof glass, and tougher steel are just a few of the applications for a new materials technology developed by Israeli researchers. A team of scientists there have developed
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Nanotech Makes Single Molecule Glow, Showing New Promise For Tiny Optoelectronics
For the first time, scientists have observed a single molecule emitting light when sandwiched between broken segments of a carbon nanotube. The new device emitted
Read more...
NASA's Tasty-Sounding O/OREOS Mission Launches Today to Study Life's Origins In Outer Space
A nanosatellite no bigger than a loaf of bread -- and named after cookies -- is set to launch today to study the origins of life in the universe.
Its name stands for Organism/Organic
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Synthetic cell-like microcapsules communicate like biological cells, cooperate like ants
Taking cues from slime molds, ants, and living biological cells, a team of University of Pittsburgh researchers has designed a system of artificial cells that can communicate with one another and cooperate to carry out tasks. The computer models they've devised could
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With No Reply From NanoSail-D Satellite, NASA Wonders If It Actually Launched at All
Last week's launch of NanoSail-D - NASA's solar sailing nanosatellite that was reportedly launched from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite
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A Protein Killer Could Treat All Cancers, and Possibly All Illnesses
Since last April, 19 cancer patients whose liver tumours hadn't responded to chemotherapy have taken an experimental drug. Within weeks of the first dose, it appeared to work, by preventing tumors from making proteins they need to survive. The results are preliminary
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US Researchers Whip Up a Batch of Edible Nanostructures
A dash of this, a pinch of that, and it seems researchers at Northwestern have cooked up a new class of nanostructures that aren't just ideal for such applications as gas storage or medical technologies, but also edible. The team, which began their research with a completely
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CERN physicists to build longest-ever linear particle accelerator
Those physicists -- give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile. Or 32 kilometres, even. Groundbreaking science is just beginning to emerge from the Large Hadron Collider, but physicists are already planning their next atom-smasher -- a $6.7 billion linear collider
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New Stealth Nano-Paint Turns Any Aircraft Into a Radar-Evading Stealth Plane
Image:Stealth Paint New Israeli nanotech paint purportedly turns any airplane or missile into a stealth aircraft.
Some innovations in flight are huge; for instance, this week we've
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Plastic antibodies shown to fight off antigens in the body just like the real thing
We use plastics to make everything from our computers to our toothbrushes, but a collaboration of researchers from the University of California at Irvine and the University of Shizuoka in Japan has made a big breakthrough by taking plastics to microscopic levels. Using
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World's smallest pump is powered by nanowires with glass electrodes
A collaboration between U.S. and South Korean researchers has produced what is thought to be the world's smallest man-made pump, merely the size of a red blood corpuscle. More impressive still is their means of powering
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A Protein Killer Could Treat All Cancers, and Possibly All Illnesses
Since last April, 19 cancer patients whose liver tumours hadn't responded to chemotherapy have taken an experimental drug. Within weeks of the first dose, it appeared to work, by preventing tumors from making proteins they need to survive. The results are preliminary
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Nanoscale infrared detector breakthrough could boost satellite imaging power by 20 times
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have turned a sheet of nano-thin gold into what could be the next big advance in infrared technology. Taking advantage of the unique properties of gold at the nanoscale, scientists there have created a "microlens" system that could boost detectivity
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Tapping carnival tech, researchers create nanofibres inspired by fairy floss
Rarely do the worlds of nanotech and carnival cuisine overlap, but when they do the results can be pretty sweet. A team of engineers has created a technology for fabricating nanofibres that's
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Finding a badly needed new generation of nano workers, in unlikely places
In the next five years, the world will need a hundred-fold increase in nano workers - the people who will build nanomaterials and develop new uses for them. In Colombia, some of these workers might very well come from the slums. At least according to
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Nano-ink tattoos could continuously monitor glucose in diabetics
People get tattoos for all kinds of reason, such as conveying their appreciation for Japanese calligraphy or to let others at the gym know their biceps are rugged like barbed wire. But a team of MIT researchers have found a higher calling for tattoo tech: using a nanoparticle
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Plastic antibodies shown to fight off antigens in the body just like the real thing
We use plastics to make everything from our computers to our toothbrushes, but a collaboration of researchers from the University of California at Irvine and the University of Shizuoka in Japan has made a big breakthrough by taking plastics to microscopic levels. Using
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Nanotech Sonar Speakers and Microphones Could Make Subs Stealthier
Carbon nanotubes could provide better stealth technology for submarines, helping them to "see" other undersea objects while remaining invisible to enemy subs. A report in ACS Nano Letters
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New Stealth Nano-Paint Turns Any Aircraft Into a Radar-Evading Stealth Plane
Image:Stealth Paint New Israeli nanotech paint purportedly turns any airplane or missile into a stealth aircraft.
Some innovations in flight are huge; for instance, this week we've
Read more...
CERN physicists to build longest-ever linear particle accelerator
Those physicists -- give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile. Or 32 kilometres, even. Groundbreaking science is just beginning to emerge from the Large Hadron Collider, but physicists are already planning their next atom-smasher -- a $6.7 billion linear collider
Read more...
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