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Eleven Monash Researchers Awarded Future Fellowships

Eleven Monash researchers have been awarded a total of $7,854,900 in the first ever round of Australian Research Council Future Fellowships to further research in their fields. The Australian Government created the ne...

9 Sep 2009

How to Control Your Quantum Pulse

A new way of storing and 'echoing' pulses of light has been discovered by a team from The Australian National University, allowing bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the range of quantum information systems.

9 Sep 2009

Universities Receive $3 Million from NSF for Nanotechnology and Materials Research

Xavier University of Louisiana and New York University have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to bolster diversity among materials scientists through collaborative research and curriculum d...

9 Sep 2009

Researchers Decode 3D Structure of Cement Hydrate

In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural materials and created entirely new building materials such as steel, which has a well-documented crystalline structure at the atomic scale.

9 Sep 2009

NIST Publishes New Request for "White Papers"

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new request for "white papers" that outline or help define potential new funding competitions under the agency's Technology Innovation Program (TIP).

9 Sep 2009

Convention Focuses on Important Issues Surrounding Quality of Food and Drugs

Important issues surrounding the quality of food and drugs-including global supply chain management, the challenges of creating follow-on biologics (in Canada, subsequent entry biologics) and nanotechnology for drug deli...

9 Sep 2009

Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award for Nanotechnology Research

Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc, assistant professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

9 Sep 2009

Drug Development Based on RNA Interference

Putting the next generation of medicines on pharmacy shelves hinges on an intensive search for ways of safely and effectively delivering a silencing message to genes that are at the basis of innumerable diseases. That&#3...

9 Sep 2009

Nanoparticles "Seek and Destroy" Brain Cancer Cells

In an advance toward better treatments for the most serious form of brain cancer, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of the first nanoparticles that seek out and destroy brain cancer cells without damaging nearby healthy cells.

9 Sep 2009

Researchers Bring Graphite's Potential as Mass Data Storage Medium a Step Closer to Reality

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could bring about a revolution in integrated circuit logic design.

9 Sep 2009