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Data Storage Breakthrough Promises Faster Computer Hard Drives

There are right-handed and left-handed yoghurts, right-handed and left-handed snail shells, and right-handed and (occasionally) left-handed screws. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now demonstrated the existence...

10 Oct 2007

Producing Quantum Level Images

An international team including scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) today publishes findings in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (PNAS) demonstrating the dr...

24 Sep 2007

Neutron Research Completely Changes Accepted Belief of Inner Workings of Neutrons

For two generations of physicists, it has been a standard belief that the neutron, an electrically neutral elementary particle and a primary component of an atom, actually carries a positive charge at its center and an o...

18 Sep 2007

Berkeley Scientists Measure Atomic Spin and Move a Step Closer to Quantum Computers and Spintronics

Scientists who dream of shrinking computers to the nanoscale look to atomic spin as one possible building block for both processor and memory, yet setting the spin of an atom, let alone measuring it, has been a challenge...

13 Sep 2007

Nanomagnetics Sponges To Clean and Conserve Precious Works of Art

Italian scientists are reporting a breakthrough technology for cleaning and conserving the wealth of priceless oil paintings, marble sculptures and other works of art in the many galleries in Italy. $$IMAGE$$ In th...

4 Sep 2007

IBM Marks Two Decades In Nanotechnology With More Nanotechnology Breakthroughs

Twenty years after two IBM scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), which opened the world to individual atoms for the first time, scientists and engineers...

3 Sep 2007

Nanomagnets Could Replace Semiconductors

Just as compact discs all but wiped out vinyl records, semiconductors could be on their way out, too. A University of Houston professor has developed a similar ‘disruptive technology,’ using magnetic cellu...

30 Aug 2007

Hidden Order Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid

An international team, including scientists from the London Center for Nanotechnology, has detected a hidden magnetic "quantum order" that extends over chains of 100 atoms in a ceramic without classical magneti...

27 Jul 2007

Magnetic Nanoscopic Particles form Photonic Color Changing Semiconducting Crystals

A liquid that changes its color “on demand” and can take on any color of the rainbow one desires? A research team headed by Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside (USA) has now shared the secre...

13 Jul 2007

Nanotechnologists Change the Color of Iron Oxide Particles Using a Magnetic Field

University of California, Riverside nanotechnologists have succeeded in controlling the color of very small particles of iron oxide suspended in water simply by applying an external magnetic field to the solution. The di...

5 Jul 2007