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Nanoworms Used to Target Cancer Tumors

Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized “nanoworms” that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body’s immune defense sy...

9 May 2008

Nano Sized Magnets to Offer Gene Therapy Treatment for Cancer

A revolutionary cancer treatment using microscopic magnets to enable 'armed' human cells to target tumours has been developed by researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (B...

18 Apr 2008

Researchers Control Electron Spin, Computer Memory May Be Held in Individual Atoms

Researchers are working towards a new means of data-storage, in which electricity and magnetism are combined in a new atom based transistor concept

8 Apr 2008

Lasers Used to Super Cool and Trap Highly Magnetic Atoms

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth element, erbium, to within two millionths of a degree of absolute zero using a novel trapping and laser cooling technique.

3 Apr 2008

NanoDays and Television Bring Nanotechnology Understanding to the General Public

"Nanotechnology: The Power of Small" television series and NanoDays, educating the public about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impacts

2 Apr 2008

Quantum Mechanics Electron 'Jitterbug' to be Replicated by Ultra Cold Atoms and Lasers

Ultracold atoms moving through a carefully designed arrangement of laser beams will jiggle slightly as they go, two NIST scientists have predicted. If observed, this never-before-seen “jitterbug” motion would shed light on a little-known oddity of quantum mechanics arising from Paul Dirac’s 80-year-old theory of the electron.

11 Mar 2008

Quantum Computers Set to Render Current Computing Standards Like Security Encryption Obsolete

An unusual observation in a University of Central Florida physics lab may lead to a new generation of “Quantum Computers” that will render today’s computer and credit card encryption technology obsolete...

6 Mar 2008

Silicon Spintronics Research Wins Professor NSF Career Award

Ian Appelbaum, University of Delaware assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation for his research on spintronics.

5 Mar 2008

Gold Becomes Magnetic at the Nano Level and May Be Used in Nanocatalysis and as Chemical and Electrical Sensors

Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that gold can change from nonmagnetic to magnetic and can be both a conductor and an insulator depending on changes at the nano level

4 Mar 2008