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Tracking Individual Nanoparticles as They Make Their Way into Target Cells

EU-funded researchers in Germany have succeeded in tracking individual nanoparticles as they make their way into target cells, applying a highly sensitive, real-time microscopic technique that delivers high spatial and t...

22 Jul 2009

Understanding the Mystery of Olfaction

Olfaction (the act of smelling) is a truly enigmatic sense: scientists still do not understand what it is about a particular molecule that smells! We can smell almost any molecule that is small, volatile and hydrophobic ...

22 Jul 2009

Researchers Develop Unique Fault-Current Limiter Module using Superconducting Thin Films

Hirofumi Yamasaki of the Superconductor Technology Group, the Energy Technology Research Institute, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and co-workers have developed a unique 500 V/200 A fault-current limiter (FCL) module, using superconducting films.

22 Jul 2009

Nanodiamonds Providing Strong Evidence of Cosmic Impact Event 12,900 Years Ago

Nanosized diamonds found just a few meters below the surface of Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara provide strong evidence of a cosmic impact event in North America approximately 12,900 years ago, according to a new study by scientists.

22 Jul 2009

Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of "Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation" guide to their offering. Selected, pee...

From Research and Markets 21 Jul 2009

Race is on for a Successor to the Popular "Flash" Memory

The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily fabricated 'crossbar' architecture.

21 Jul 2009

A Single Atom Makes a Big Difference

By substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to products currently on the market.

From Sandia National Laboratories 21 Jul 2009

Idaho National Laboratory Researchers Wins Three R+D 100 Awards

Idaho National Laboratory researchers posted an unparalleled performance this year, earning R+D 100 Awards for three of four nominated technologies during the 2009 international competition. "These three award-wi...

21 Jul 2009

Argonne Researcher Wins AWIS Innovator Award for Semiconductor Nanoparticles Research

The Chicago chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) granted its third annual Innovator Award to Tijana Rajh, group leader of the Nanobio Interfaces research group at Argonne National Laboratory's Centr...

From Argonne National Laboratory 21 Jul 2009

Nanoscale Device can Instantly Measure the Mass of an Individual Molecule

Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time.

21 Jul 2009