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Artificial Forests at Nanoscale

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antenna...

29 Jun 2009

Carl Zeiss Tests New Product Line in Laboratories

Carl Zeiss will launch a new product line for high resolution microscopy this year. Thanks to the combination of two techniques in ZEISS microscopes - HR-SIM (High Resolution Structured Illumination Microscopy) and PAL-M (Photoactivated Localization Microscopy) - biomedical scientists are able to examine objects at maximum resolution.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 29 Jun 2009

Researchers Discover Possible Way to Observe And Record Behavior Of Matter at the Molecular Level

Finding a way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level has long been one of the holy grails among physicists. That ability could open the door to a wide range of applications in ultrafast elect...

28 Jun 2009

Potential Of Carbon Nanotubes As Weapons Against Cancer

Carbon nanotubes, one of the original engineered nanomaterials, also may prove to be among the most versatile, as numerous teams of investigators continue to develop novel nanotube-based therapeutic and diagnostic tools....

26 Jun 2009

Certain Molecules Handle Cargo Moving In Both Directions

In the bustling economy of the cell, little bubbles called vesicles serve as container ships, ferrying cargo to and from the port - the cell membrane. Some of these vesicles, called post-Golgi vesicles, export cargo made...

26 Jun 2009

Structural Biologist Awarded The Rössler Prize

Structural biologist Nenad Ban is awarded the Rössler prize, supporting his research with 200,000 Swiss Francs. Over the past few years, Ban and his group have clarified structures of important macromolecular complexes.

25 Jun 2009

Physicists Found Way to Drastically Prolong Shelf Life of Quantum Bits

Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers. These precarious bits, formed in this case by arrays of semiconductor quantum dots containing a s...

24 Jun 2009

Research Opens Up New Experimental Territory

University of Chicago researchers recently showed that dry granular materials such as sands, seeds and grains have properties similar to liquid, forming water-like droplets when poured from a given source.

24 Jun 2009

Brookhaven Scientist Elected the Inaugural Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America

Yimei Zhu, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected the inaugural Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), an affiliate of the American Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 24 Jun 2009

French Physicist Recipient of Holweck Medal and Prize for Nanotechnology Research

French physicist Dr Christian Colliex from Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud at Orsay, is the 2009 recipient of the Holweck Medal and Prize for his pioneering use of the electron microscope t...

24 Jun 2009