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Nano-Discs Destroy Cancer Cells

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center are shaking up the world of materials science and cancer research on the cover of the February 2010 issue of the journal Nature Materials.

8 Feb 2010

Results Should Aid Researchers in Their Quest for Elusive Higgs Boson

In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.

8 Feb 2010

Quantum Computing in Isotopically Engineered Diamond

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency ( JST) are launching the research project "Quantum Computing in isotopically E...

8 Feb 2010

Recipe for Making Conductive Textile

A team of Stanford researchers is producing batteries and simple capacitors from ordinary textiles dipped in nanoparticle-infused ink. The conductive textiles - dubbed "eTextiles" - represent a new class of integrated energy storage device, born from the synthesis of prehistoric technology with cutting-edge materials science.

5 Feb 2010

IBM Researchers Demonstrate Graphene Transistor with the Highest Cut-Off Frequency

In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).

5 Feb 2010

Researchers Produces New Type of Lighting Component using Graphene

With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. The invention, wh...

5 Feb 2010

New Composite Material that Could Revolutionise Car Design and Manufacturing

Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionise car design and manufacturing. Parts of a car's bodywork could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behind a new €3.4 million project announced today.

5 Feb 2010

First Glimpse of Physics at New Energy Frontier

In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.

5 Feb 2010

Finely Tuned Rare-Earth Metal Catalyzes the Exact Interactions Needed for Site-Selective Molecular Synthesis

Subtle electronic differences between metals in the periodic table can lead to radical changes in chemical reactivity. Now, a research team led by Zhaomin Hou from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, has found th...

4 Feb 2010

Researchers Find New Method for Manipulating Molecules of Liquid Crystals

A new method for manipulating the molecules of liquid crystals in ways previously unachieved could result in more effective industrial sealants, improved food packaging and even enhanced electronic displays, says Zhengdong Cheng.

4 Feb 2010