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Scientists Use Photoemission Spectroscopy to Study Ultracold Atomic Gases

Scientists at JILA, working with Italian theorists, have discovered another notable similarity between ultracold atomic gases and high-temperature superconductors, suggesting there may be a relatively simple shared explanation for equivalent behaviors of the two very different systems.

8 Jul 2010

Veeco Introduces IRIS Models for Innova and BioScope Catalyst Atomic Force Microscopes

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force microscopy technology to the nanoscience community, announced today the release of the IRIS(TM) models for Innova(R) and BioScope(TM) Catalyst(T...

7 Jul 2010

New Microscope Captures Amazing Images of Animal Development

To understand the complex stages of an embryo, you cannot simply watch it grow. However, it's difficult to accurately observe such fine, complex and high-speed details, even under the microscope.

7 Jul 2010

Scientists Use Scanning Tunneling Microscope to Study Rotaxane Molecular Machines

In the development of future molecular devices, new display technologies, and "artificial muscles" in nanoelectromechanical devices, functional molecules are likely to play a primary role. Rotaxanes, one fa...

7 Jul 2010

Olympus’ LEXT OLS4000 Confocal Microscope Used for NPL Project

Olympus has today announced that the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is using its LEXT OLS4000 in a project to establish good practice guidelines for the calibration of 3D/areal surface texture measuring instruments.

6 Jul 2010

Atomic Force Microscopy Helps to Study Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions

Protein−carbohydrate interactions play a crucial role in many biological processes such as cell−cell recognition and receptor−ligand interactions and catalysis. This thesis explores the possibilities of engineering the protein–carbohydrate interactions between carbohydrate-binding proteins and their ligands.

5 Jul 2010

Researchers Use Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Emulsions

New work from the Institute of Food Research has shown how sugar beet pectin acts as an efficient emulsifier, using a technique that could be used to unravel in the finest detail how such important food ingredients work.

2 Jul 2010

Study on Quantum-to-Classical World Transition

Darwinian concept of natural selection figures into theory about the core of physical reality Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that c...

2 Jul 2010

Thermo Fisher Unveils New Application Note on NanoDrop 3300 Fluorospectrometer

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced a new application note demonstrating how the Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 3300 enables cancer researchers to study DNA methylation events and polyamine induced DNA G-quadruplex formations by microvolume fluorometry.

1 Jul 2010

JPK Instruments Launches NanoWizard3 BioScience AFM at MicroScience 2010

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to select MicroScience 2010 to announce the launch of their third generation, dedicated BioAFM system, the NanoWizard®3 BioScience AFM.

From Bruker BioAFM 29 Jun 2010