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Physicists Found Easier Way to Make Things Invisible

Two physicists may have found an easier way to make things invisible. Cloaking devices, which are a form of advanced stealth technology, are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek. So far all methods for invisi...

23 Nov 2008

Leading Nanomaterials Producer Receives AS 9100 Certification

Raymor Industries Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RAR), a leading developer and producer of single-walled carbon nanotubes, nanomaterials and advanced materials, announces that SE Techno Plus, a division of Raymor Aerospace, has recei...

23 Nov 2008

Intel Introduces the Fastest Processor Based on Nanotechnology

Intel Corporation introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput.

22 Nov 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Detect Drugs in Saliva

Royal Philips Electronics NV said Thursday it has developed a handheld device that uses nanotechnology to detect marijuana, cocaine, Speed and other drugs in saliva within 2 minutes.

22 Nov 2008

Renesas Landshut Fab Transfers to Silicon Foundry Holding

Renesas Technology Corp., one of the world's leading semiconductor solution providers, has transferred all shares of the former Renesas Semiconductor Europe (Landshut) GmbH (RSEL), to Silicon Foundry Holding GmbH (SF...

22 Nov 2008

Nanotechnology Solutions Provider Introduces Self-Sanitising Hygienic Coatings for Interior Applications

Nanotechnology improves environment and saves costs to keep maintain hygienic environment inside food production and clean room facilities; less water and chemicals are needed to disinfect walls and ceilings, less impact...

22 Nov 2008

Results Represent Largest Computational Efforts to Calculate Particle Mass

An EU-funded study by physicists in Germany, France and Hungary has demonstrated conclusively that the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory describing the fundamental interactions of the elementary particles that make up all visible matter in the universe, accurately accounts for the mass of protons and neutrons.

22 Nov 2008

Intel Awards $25,000 to Winning Team in the Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge

NeuroMOD Technologies of Singapore won the 4th Annual Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge (IBTEC) last night. The neurological medical device company was judged by a team of venture capitalists from t...

22 Nov 2008

Olympus Introduces Expanded Line of Compact Laser Scanning Multiphoton Microscopes to See Deeper into Tissue

Olympus is introducing a newly expanded line of FluoView® FV1000-MPE multiphoton laser scanning microscope systems* for deeper observation and imaging in living specimens. There are now 14 models and configurations a...

21 Nov 2008

First Fully Integrated Cell Culture Imaging System for Ultra-Long Observation

The LCV110 Incubator Fluorescence Microscope from Olympus is the first ultra-long-term live cell incubation and imaging system, offering researchers the unprecedented ability to do multi-channel long-term time-lapse obse...

21 Nov 2008

Olympus Offers Powerful New Software Designed to Enhance Nanotechnology Experiments

The Olympus ASW v2.0 Software Suite is designed to maximize performance and ease-of-use for the new line of FluoView® FV1000 confocal and FV1000-MPE multiphoton laser scanning microscope systems.

21 Nov 2008

STMicroelectronics Announces Collaboration with MIT on Microcontroller Devices

STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) has announced it recently joined the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG) industry consortium at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Mic...

From STMicroelectronics 21 Nov 2008

A Big Step Closer to Unlocking the Secrets of the Most Abundant Form of Matter in the Universe

University of British Columbia researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most abundant form of matter in the universe. A plasma - or ionized gas - ...

21 Nov 2008

Strip of Graphite 10 Atoms Thick Can Serve as Basic Element in a New Type of Memory

A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media play...

21 Nov 2008

Laboratory Researchers See New Mechanism for Superconductivity

Laboratory researchers have posited an explanation for superconductivity that may open the door to the discovery of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity.

21 Nov 2008