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Carl Zeiss Holds Eleventh "Day of Microscopy"

Carl Zeiss will be holding the eleventh "Day of Microscopy", this time under the motto "Travel to New Dimensions". Launched in November 2009 in a campaign with the same name, the ELYRA and LSM 780 mic...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 17 Mar 2010

Exposure to Short Pulses of Light Changes How Polymer Surfaces Interact with Water Droplets

Scientists at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology of A*STAR and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have now shown that droplet formation on a polymer can be controlled by exposing the surface to short pulses of light.

16 Mar 2010

NCNR Researchers Win Prizes in Neutron Scattering

The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has honored scientists working at NIST with two of its three major annual prizes for 2010, and named another a society fellow. Collin Broholm of the Johns Hopkins Unive...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Mar 2010

MICROSCIENCE 2010 Designated EMS Extension by European Microscopy Society

MICROSCIENCE 2010 has been designated an EMS Extension by the European Microscopy Society. This means that it will receive increased support, and it will host the European Society's General Assembly - when up to 60 r...

16 Mar 2010

Researchers Get Up-Close Look at Pierce's Disease

Like a band of detectives surveying the movement of a criminal, researchers using photographic technology have caught at least one culprit in the act.

15 Mar 2010

BEST Announces AIXUV Acquisition

Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST) today announced that its subsidiary has acquired the assets of AIXUV GmbH in Aachen, Germany, a company specializing in XUV/EUV systems and key components.

15 Mar 2010

Nanobotmodels Company Offer Vision of Future DNA and Cell-Repair Techniques

Developments in nanotechnology and nanorobotics are opening up the prospects for nanomedicine and regenerative medicine where informatics and DNA computing can become the catalysts enabling health care applications at sub-molecular or atomic scales.

15 Mar 2010

Researchers Look for Better Characterization of Single Nanoparticles

Calculations are fine, but seeing is believing. That's the thought behind a new paper by Rice University students who decided to put to the test calculations made more than a century ago. In 1908, the German phys...

15 Mar 2010

Scientists Record First Microscopic Images Showing Deadly Effects of AMPs

For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes.

14 Mar 2010

Neutron Detector System Seen as Alternative to Helium-3 Detectors

PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Nationa...

12 Mar 2010