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Spacecraft Take First Images of Distant Solar System with Particles

NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.

3 Jul 2008

Austrian Government to Fund Series of Nanoimprint Lithography Research Projects

The Austrian government will fund a series of nanoimprint lithography (NIL) research projects. The "NILaustria" project will focus on large-area nanostructuring, using NIL to transfer different nanostructures t...

3 Jul 2008

MIT Researchers Tug at Molecules with Optical Tweezers

MIT researchers have developed a novel technique to measure the strength of the bonds between two protein molecules important in cell machinery: Gently tugging them apart with light beams.

3 Jul 2008

Camera Gives Unique Insight into Nanoscale Biomedical Events

Specialised Imaging Ltd. has announced the availability of a new technical report* demonstrating the considerable utility of a simultaneous framing and streak camera system in visualising nanoscale biomedical events.

2 Jul 2008

Rohm and Haas Announces Availability of Second-Generation VaporStation Central Delivery System

Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials today announced that a second-generation VaporStation(TM) central delivery system, which provides several enhancements to the highly-capable original version, is now available. The new systems use the latest version of the IvMB(TM) inverted mini bubbler, optimized control software and an improved panel layout.

2 Jul 2008

NanoZoomer Shows High-Resolution Images of Cells and Tissue

"TIGA," the new high-tech imaging center at the University of Heidelberg founded in cooperation with the Japanese company Hamamatsu, provides deep insights: a high-tech robot makes it possible for the first time to automatically reproduce and evaluate tissue slices only micromillimeters thick - an important aid for researchers in understanding cancer or in following in detail the effect of treatment on cells and tissue.

2 Jul 2008

Researchers from ORNL Received Recognition in Nanotechnology

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won six R+D 100 Awards for innovative technologies in areas ranging from national security to the advanced materials indu...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2 Jul 2008

The Few Remaining Unsolved Problems of Quantum Mechanics

A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics.

2 Jul 2008

Researchers Develop Technique for Generating Atom Clusters

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a whole new branch of chemistry.

1 Jul 2008

Another Reason Why Nanoparticles are Attractive Potential Biomedical Sensors

The ability to use genetic material to assemble nanoscopic particles of gold could be an important step toward creating tiny "spies" that will be able to infiltrate individual cells and report back in real time...

1 Jul 2008