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Nuclear Materials Shaping National Collaborations

In Kumar Sridharan's laboratory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus, just one ill-timed sneeze might have catapulted his next three years' worth of nuclear reactor materials research into ob...

15 Jan 2009

The Sixty-Four-Thousand-Dollar Question: How Signals are Transmitted Across Cell Membrane

Bacteria can occur almost anywhere on earth and exist under the most varying conditions. If these tiny, microscopic organisms are to survive in these environments, they need to be able to rapidly detect changes in their ...

15 Jan 2009

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Chevron Sign Fuel Research Agreement

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has signed a research agreement with Chevron to develop the next generation of catalysts for production of clean, more efficient fuels from crude oil. The research will focus on...

13 Jan 2009

Gold Nanocages Minimize Invasive Surgical Lymph Node Biopsy Procedures

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients. For the first time, Lihong Wang, Ph.D., Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in th...

13 Jan 2009

First Step Toward Revealing the Hidden Machinations of Biomolecules in Water

Now, using a new technique based on terahertz (THz) spectroscopy, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently taken the first step toward revealing the hidden machinations of biomolecules in water.

13 Jan 2009

Result Signals Significant Step Forward in Tools for Nanotechnology

IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI.

13 Jan 2009

Photonic Crystals Enable Precise Control of Laser Beam

Terahertz cascade lasers are a new family of semi-conductor lasers which emit in the frequency range of the terahertz, or 1012 hertz. Because of their potential applications, they currently raise considerable interest, d...

13 Jan 2009

Mapping Local Strain and Cracks of Nanoscale Dimensions

A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors.

11 Jan 2009

Mechanistic Details Revealed Through Unique Light Source Technique

Using two simultaneous light-based probing techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy' (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has illuminated important details about a class of enzymes involved in everything from photosynthesis to the regulation of biological clocks.

10 Jan 2009

Visualization and Manipulation of Atoms Using Nanotechnology and AFM

An international team of scientists, among them researchers from the department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), present a new method to manipulate atoms. Nanot...

9 Jan 2009