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NSF Grants Fund to a Professor for Converting Waste Material into Cleaning Agent

The National Science Foundation awarded Sudipta Seal a $67,000 grant that will help the professor turn waste material, commonly referred to as flyash, into a cleaning agent.

6 Aug 2010

Quantum Mechanics Enables Study of Superconducting Phenomenon

Physicists are divided on whether string theory is a viable theory of everything, but many agree that it offers a new way to look at physical phenomena that have otherwise proven difficult to describe. In the past dec...

6 Aug 2010

Funding to Support Research on Nano-Engineered Surfaces for Heat Management

Kripa Varanasi, the d'Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and leader of the Lab for Surface Science + Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, has received a 2010 Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

6 Aug 2010

Evidence Support Idea that Life Originated with Molecules that Lay Between Mica Sheets

That age-old question, "where did life on Earth start?" now has a new answer. If the life between the mica sheets hypothesis is correct, life would have originated between sheets of mica that were layered like the pages in a book.

5 Aug 2010

Scientists at RTI International to Develop Registry for Nanomaterials

Scientists at RTI International will develop a registry for nanomaterials as part of a new contract from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Under terms of the federally f...

5 Aug 2010

ASU Professor Releases Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology and Society

The newly-released two-volume Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society is the result. Edited by David H. Guston, director of ASU’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society and professor of political science, this resource isn’t designed for the scientist or engineer, but rather for the rest of us who have plenty of questions about nanotechnology – and what it means for our lives – but are afraid to ask.

5 Aug 2010

$Physicist Receives Award from International Centre for Powder Diffraction$

Physicist Receives Award from International Centre for Powder Diffraction

Simon Billinge, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a recipient of the Centre for Powder Diffraction’s 2010 J. D. Hanawalt Award, along with his collaborator and former advisor, Takeshi Egami of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 5 Aug 2010