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Scientists Develop More Effective Way to Build Plastic Scaffolds

A more effective way to build plastic scaffolds on which new tissues and even whole organs might be grown in the laboratory is being developed by an international collaboration between teams in Portugal and the UK. W...

18 Jun 2009

JPK Instruments Announces Registration Open for Annual Symposium on Applications of SPM

JPK Instruments are happy to announce that registration is now open for the eighth annual symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) to be run alongside the second annual symposium on optical tweezers.

From Bruker BioAFM 18 Jun 2009

Tower Semiconductor to Port Crocus' MRAM Process Technology into its Manufacturing Environment

Crocus Technology, a premier developer of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) and Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. (Nasdaq: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), a leading global specialty foundry, today announced an agreement to port Crocus' MRAM process technology into Tower's manufacturing environment.

18 Jun 2009

Semiconductor Lasers Could Transform Healthcare, Telecoms and Display Applications

A massive European project to develop a complete cycle of technologies for a new generation of high-brightness semiconductor lasers promises to transform the healthcare, telecom and display technology sectors. The sem...

18 Jun 2009

Nanomaterials Knowledge Base Expanded

The NanoCare Project has gained new knowledge about the effects of nanomaterials on health and on the environment. Dr. Peter Nagler, head of Innovation Management for Evonik's Chemistry Business Area, said that the p...

18 Jun 2009

Companies Join IBM Technology Alliance's 28nm Low-Power Process Technology Development Program

IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM), NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) and Toshiba Corporation (TSE: 6502) announced that NEC Electronics and Toshiba have extended technology development agreements with IBM to participate in the development of a 28-nanometer (nm), high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power chip technology geared for consumer products.

17 Jun 2009

"Milking" Diatoms Could Yield Massive Amounts of Oil

Scientists in Canada and India are proposing a surprising new solution to the global energy crisis - "milking" oil from the tiny, single-cell algae known as diatoms, renowned for their intricate, beautifully sculpted shells that resemble fine lacework.

17 Jun 2009

Chinese Researchers Discover How Nanoparticles Can Cause Lung Cancer

Researchers in China have identified how nanoparticles-- polyamidoamine dendrimers or PAMAMs - used in medicine can cause lung cancer. Nanotechnology is essentially the science of the "extremely tiny" - one ...

From Chinese Academy of Sciences 17 Jun 2009

Chirality at the Nanoscale

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of "Chirality at the Nanoscale: Nanoparticles, Surfaces, Materials and more" report ...

From Research and Markets 17 Jun 2009

Knowing What Other Photons Do

Now, Stephan Smolka and co-workers from Department of Photonics Engineering at Technical University of Denmark published in Physical Review Letters 102, 193901 (May 2009) the experimantal demonstration that spatial quantum correlations are induced when quantum correlated light is sent through a multiple scattering medium.

17 Jun 2009