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A Newfound Flaw in Our Understanding of Transistor Noise

Chip manufacturers beware: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes computer circuits possible. According to the engineers at th...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 21 May 2009

Modumetal and University of Washington to Develop Innovative Anti-Corrosion Technology

Washington Technology Center (WTC) has awarded an Entrepreneur's Access grant to the University of Washington to support an advanced material research collaboration with Modumetal, Inc. of Seattle, Washington. Mod...

From Modumetal 21 May 2009

RXi Pharmaceuticals CSO Presents Pre-Clinical Data on Novel RNAi Therapeutic Approaches at IBC's TIDES Conference

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, today announced that the Company' Chief Scientific Officer, Anastasia Khvorova, Ph.D., presented new pre-clinical data on novel RNAi therapeutic approaches at IBC' TIDES Oligonucleotide and Peptide® Technology and Product Development Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

21 May 2009

Nanotechnology Microscope for Brain Studies

In a world first, Spain is to use a nanotechnology microscope for brain studies as part of the Blue Brain project. The initiative is CSIC researcher Javier de Felipe's brainchild, and researchers at the Universidad P...

21 May 2009

NGO Urges ICCM to Take Effective Action on Nanotechnology

The ICCM addressed nanotechnolgoy and manufactured nanoparticles as an emerging policy issue for the first time. ETC Group's Diana Bronson attended the meeting and worked with NGO partners to urge the ICCM to take effective action on nano-scale technologies.

21 May 2009

ICPCNanoNet to Present Accomplishments at Annual Workshop in Prague

Now reaching the end of its first project year, the ICPCNanoNet partnership is looking forward to presenting its accomplishments at the annual workshop to be held on 1st June in Prague. A busy year has gone by, providing...

20 May 2009

Chinese Scientists Finish Upgrade Project of Electron-Positron Collider

Chinese scientists have successfully finished a five-year upgrade aimed at keeping the country's electron-positron collider (EPC) a leading global high-tech device. With the upgrading, the collider's capabilit...

From Chinese Academy of Sciences 20 May 2009

Researchers Demonstrate How Nanotechnology can be Incorporated onto a Disc in Order to Increase Data Capacity

Futuristic discs with a storage capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs could be just around the corner, thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology. For the first time researchers from the university's Centre for Micro-Photonics have demonstrated how nanotechnology can enable the creation of 'five dimensional' discs with huge storage capacities.

20 May 2009

Nanotechnology Offers Unprecedented Advantage in Enhancing the Efficacy of Non-Viral Gene Delivery

University at Buffalo researchers have identified a new mechanism that plays a central role in adult brain stem cell development and prompts brain stem cells to differentiate into neurons. Their discovery, known as Integ...

20 May 2009

Nanotechnology Scientists Develop Method of Detecting, Tracking, and Killing Cancer Cells in Real Time with Carbon Nanotubes

Nanotechnology scientists at two Arkansas research institutions have developed a method of detecting, tracking, and killing cancer cells in real time with carbon nanotubes. The discovery opens the prospect of a new, m...

20 May 2009

Software Automatically Generates Proximity Effect Corrected Runfile for SEM-Based Electron Beam Lithography

The NanoMaker Workbench software from SEMTech Solutions automatically generates a Proximity Effect Corrected runfile, compatible with NPGS systems, for SEM-based electron beam lithography.

20 May 2009

Researchers Demonstrate How Bacteria Measure Temperature

Researchers in the "Molecular Infection Biology group" at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Braunschweig Technical University could now demonstrate for the first time that bacteria of the Yersinia genus possess a unique protein thermometer - the protein RovA - which assists them in the infection process.

20 May 2009

Researchers Create New Type of Invisibility Cloak that is Simpler than Previous Designs

Researchers have created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it possible to cloak larger objects than before and possibly leading to practical applications in "transformation optics."

20 May 2009

New Way to Make Raspberry-Shaped Nanoparticles that Can Give Glass a Permanent Antifogging Coating

In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass a permanent antifogging coating.

20 May 2009

New Computer Memory Device that Can Store Thousands of Times More Data than Conventional Silicon Chips

Scientists are reporting an advance toward remedying this situation with a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than conventional silicon chips with an estimated lifetime of more than one billion years. Their discovery is scheduled for publication in the June 10 issue of ACS' Nano Letters.

20 May 2009

Nanotechnology News

A Newfound Flaw in Our Understanding of Transistor Noise

Modumetal and University of Washington to Develop Innovative Anti-Corrosion Technology

RXi Pharmaceuticals CSO Presents Pre-Clinical Data on Novel RNAi Therapeutic Approaches at IBC's TIDES Conference

Nanotechnology Microscope for Brain Studies

NGO Urges ICCM to Take Effective Action on Nanotechnology

ICPCNanoNet to Present Accomplishments at Annual Workshop in Prague

Chinese Scientists Finish Upgrade Project of Electron-Positron Collider

Researchers Demonstrate How Nanotechnology can be Incorporated onto a Disc in Order to Increase Data Capacity

Nanotechnology Offers Unprecedented Advantage in Enhancing the Efficacy of Non-Viral Gene Delivery

Nanotechnology Scientists Develop Method of Detecting, Tracking, and Killing Cancer Cells in Real Time with Carbon Nanotubes

Software Automatically Generates Proximity Effect Corrected Runfile for SEM-Based Electron Beam Lithography

Researchers Demonstrate How Bacteria Measure Temperature

Researchers Create New Type of Invisibility Cloak that is Simpler than Previous Designs

New Way to Make Raspberry-Shaped Nanoparticles that Can Give Glass a Permanent Antifogging Coating

New Computer Memory Device that Can Store Thousands of Times More Data than Conventional Silicon Chips

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