Researchers at the University of Calgary and Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, have come up with a way to use impurities in diamonds as a method of creating a node in a quantum network.
Stanford researchers have developed a new biosensor microchip that could significantly speed up the process of drug development.
A new nanotechnology-based vaccine could provide protection from the Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV), a disease that costs the Australian cattle industry tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue every year.
The global supply deficit of rare earth minerals is likely to peak this year and then swing into a surplus by 2013, according to analysts with Goldman Sachs.
A new publication, “Nanoinformatics 2020 Roadmap” is expected to enable and enhance connections among nanotechnology science and engineering researchers, manufacturers and interested government agencies.
The European Commission will fund a 10-year, 1,000 million euro coordination action on graphene. The research initiative will aim at producing a breakthrough for technological innovation and economic exploitation based on graphene, and related two-dimensional materials. Graphene, with its unique properties, has sparked a scientific explosion, and a coordinated European level approach is needed in […]
Several start-ups have recently announced that they are using nanotechnology to make better ultracapacitors, leading to a new type of energy-storage technology that could boost the range of electric cars.
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States, have discovered a way to prod the immune system to fight cancer.
The countries of South Korea and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding that will cement a strategic partnership between the two nations.
Scientists have developed a borate glass nanofiber material that appears to speed healing in initial venous stasis wounds.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, have developed an unusual, high performance way of turning the sun’s heat into electricity.
Two-thirds of the rare earths mined in China come from the mineral-rich Bautou area on the edge of the Gobi desert.
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, United States, and Tyco Electronics, has developed a new kind of sensor that could warn emergency workers when the carbon filters they wear as protection have become dangerously saturated.
Chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, have designed a new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that could be used to deliver cancer drugs to nearly any type of tumor.
Researchers at the University of Maryland in the US are the first to have observed an insulating state at the surface of bismuth selenide.
A new catalyst for the so-called hydrogen evolution reaction has been developed by researchers at Stanford University in California.
Sometimes we forget what its like to be a child – to explore the unknown, ask questions, play, and basically have fun. Well, 180 high school S&T teachers last week were given this opportunity to participate in the Frontier Science Camp organized by the Office of the Permanent Secretary (Ministry of S&T) and research agencies […]
A researcher from the Faculdade de Farmácia e Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal, is to receive a Grand Challenges Exploration Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for his work in developing therapeutic nanoparticles to eliminate HIV-1 viruses from infected organisms.
Some prior experiments that studied the toxicity of nanoparticles may be invalidated due to an overlooked detail of experimental design, according to Younan Xia, a scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, United States.
A high-sensitivity biochip was developed for widespread diagnosis and environmental monitoring thanks to mass-production techniques and achievement of precision molecule detection.
RTI International, a United States-based research institute, is hosting a policy forum, “Nanotechnology: The Huge Challenge of Regulating Tiny Technologies”, on May 4, 2011, from 9:30 to 10:30 EDT, in Washington, D.C.
