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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

Junior Researchers Awarded Prestigious Starting Grants By The European Research Council

Two junior researchers at LMU Munich have been awarded prestigious Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Dieter Braun and Professor Philip Tinnefeld, both members of the Faculty of Physics, wi...

5 Aug 2010

Oxford Instruments and ECS Collaborate to Build New Nanowire Biosensor

Oxford Instruments and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, are delighted to announce that they have just signed a research-based collaboration agreement. Oxford Inst...

5 Aug 2010

Dr. Wang Receives NSF Grant for Nano-Based Bone Regeneration Research

Every year nearly 6.2 million bone fractures occur in the United States as a result of trauma and disease. Current standards for bone repair can lead to rapid bone fusion but with limited mechanical strength often due to...

5 Aug 2010

New Metamaterials for Optical Applications

Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in using new "metamaterials" for radical advances in optical technologies, including ultra-powerful microscopes and computers and a possible invisibility cloak.

5 Aug 2010

Advancement in New Branch of Nano-Optics, Plasmonics

Surface plasmons are quanta of collective oscillations of free electrons at metal-insulator interface, usually excited by photons. Since it was first proposed in 1950s by Ritchie, new interests have been aroused due to r...

5 Aug 2010

New Microscopy Technique to View Oxide Interfaces in Atomic Resolution

Thin layers of oxide materials and their interfaces have been observed in atomic resolution during growth for the first time by researchers at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, providing new insight into the complicated link between their structure and properties.

5 Aug 2010