• Carbon Nanotubes: Notable Developments of 2009

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:24:25
    : Man's Next Migration by Dr . Spencer Home Man's Next Migration Book Feedback Blog Think Tank Join ThinkTank News Links Featured News Space Exploration Today Habitable Planets Technology Updates News Archive Weekly Newsletter Forum Recent Posts Thread List Active Topics Free Membership Subscriptions Exclusive Premier Members Member Scholarship About Us Global Team Space Center Skydets Login Logout Forgot Password Carbon Nanotubes : Notable Developments of 2009 January 10, 2010 Space Age Technology by Goldilocks Mission Blog Ever since scientists discovered the incredulous tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and its unique properties , the wonder material has found numerous applications in various technologies but has yet to fulfill its part in what made it famous the first time , the

  • Nanotech Europe moves toward harmonized regulations by defining a nanomaterial

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  • Fatty Acids Do A Heart Good

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  • Microscopy Reveals New Layout For Measles Virus

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  • Researchers Develop New Technology to Improve Neural Implants

    Updated: 2011-10-31 00:39:34
    Electrical implants that shut down excessive activity in brain cells hold great potential for treating epilepsy and chronic pain. Likewise, devices that enhance neurons’ activity may help restore function to people with nerve damage. A new technology developed at MIT and Harvard Medical School may overcome the primary drawback to this approach, known as functional [...]

  • Blog - Layers 'n' Lions

    Updated: 2011-10-29 05:10:00
    The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week Chersiphron & Son Engineers

  • Green Machine: Recycled cans to make cheap fuel cells

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:04:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Green Machine : Recycled cans to make cheap fuel cells 13:04 28 October 2011 Cars Green Machine Green tech Jesse Emspak , contributor A fuel cell-powered car at the International Hydrogen Fuel Cell Expo 2010 Image : Junko Kimura Getty Hydrogen fuel cells for cars are still wildly expensive , mainly because they have to use costly noble metals such as platinum . Now researchers have demonstrated that aluminium can be

  • Photon12

    Updated: 2011-10-27 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 3 Sep 2012 - 6 Sep 2012, Durham University, United Kingdom.

  • Researchers Develop New Technique to Visualise Live Cancerous Cells

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:25:12
    Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have developed a new technique to visualise live cancerous cells using luminescent metal-based nanotechnology, according to a university press release. The research is a collaboration between the School of Chemistry and the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and was recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. It [...]

  • Video - Letter from the Editor

    Updated: 2011-10-25 05:00:00
    Our November/December 2011 issue features new technology for eavesdropping on the hive mind, an essay on the evolution of privacy, and much more.

  • NNI Releases Environmental, Health & Safety Research Strategy for Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2011-10-25 01:43:08
    On October 20, 2011, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) released its 2011 Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy (the "Strategy"), and held a webinar to discus... read more

  • The 13-th Russian Youth Conference on Physics of Semiconductors and Nanostructures, Opto- and Nanoelectronics

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    Conference: 21 Nov 2011 - 25 Nov 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation.

  • The 13-th Russian Youth Conference on Physics of Semiconductors and Nanostructures, Opto- and Nanoelectronics

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    Conference: 21 Nov 2011 - 25 Nov 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation.

  • How Your Tax Dollars Save Lives: Gene Therapy | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Spark of Truth: Can Science Bring Justice to Arson Trials? | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Vital Signs: Life-or-Death Drive | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Impatient Futurist: How to Achieve Near-Immortality: Wear the Right Clothes | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • NANOvember Programs Highlight Increasing Role of Nanotechnology Thanks to University of Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

    Updated: 2011-10-19 09:43:01
    NANOvember is coming thanks to SUNY Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE). The read more

  • NT-MDT CEO Hosts SPM Workshops in Russia and China

    Updated: 2011-10-18 23:22:40
    CEO of NT-MDT Development Dr. Sergei Magonov shared his comprehensive expertise on SPM techniques during scientific workshops in Russia and China. Dr. Sergey Magonov - a recognized authority n...

  • JPK Report on Successful SPM and Optical Tweezer Workshop

    Updated: 2011-10-18 13:53:27
    JPK Instruments recently hosted their tenth annual international symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and optical tweezers. Held this month in the historic Umspannwerk Ost...

  • NanoScience + Engineering 2012 - Part of SPIE Optics + Photonics

    Updated: 2011-10-17 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 12 Aug 2012 - 16 Aug 2012, San Diego Convention Center , San Diego/CA, United States. Organized by SPIE.

  • Next-Generation, Honking-Big, Recession-Proof Alien Hunting | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Can Trees Offset Our Carbon Fumes? | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-13 18:50:00
    Forests are the planet’s biggest terrestrial carbon sinks, soaking up and storing a quarter of the world’s annual emissions. Forests are also vulnerable to changes in climate, leading scientists to explore whether they can continue their sequestering magic in a warming world. A new large-scale study provides a worrisome answer, suggesting that while forests are very resilient, they may not be able to shoulder the load in the long run. As global temperatures rise, forests face a pair of counteracting carbon processes. Warming causes dead plants to decompose more quickly, which releases carbon dioxide. But decomposition also releases ammonium—essentially fertilizer—into the soil, allowing trees to grow faster and store more carbon...

  • Research Study Demonstrates That Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Treatment May Reduce Drug Resistant Breast Cancer Cells in Mice With Fewer Side Effects.

    Updated: 2011-10-12 23:02:20
    October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. It is fitting that new research announced this month using nanomaterial technology for cancer drug delivery may represent a ray of hope in the battle again... read more

  • Nanotechnology Helps Create Real Life Version of Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak

    Updated: 2011-10-12 06:02:07
    Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas may soon help Harry Potter fans everywhere realize their dreams. Using nanotechnology, Ali Aliev and his team have created a way to make items disappear... read more

  • New York Loves Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2011-10-12 06:02:06
    In a ecent article by the Wall Street Journal highlighting the “hott... read more

  • User-Friendly Asylum AFM Can Be Programmed to Operate Unattended with Innovative Software

    Updated: 2011-10-12 00:36:23
    Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM), provides its full-function MFP-3D and Cypher Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs) with superior capabilities...

  • Twisting Radio Waves Could Give Us 100x More Wireless Bandwidth | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-10 19:25:00
    As more people stream video to their mobile devices, wireless bandwidth is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. Data traffic increased 8,000 percent in the past four years on AT&T’s network alone. In trying to avoid what the Federal Communications Commission calls a “looming spectrum crisis,” telecommunications companies are lobbying the government to assign them more spectrum space in the 300- to 3,000-megahertz range, the sweet spot for wireless communication. But Italian astrophysicist Fabrizio Tamburini says a solution may lie in making better use of the frequencies already in use. In a recent paper, he demonstrated a potential way to squeeze 100 times more bandwidth out of existing frequencies. The idea is to twist radio waves like corkscrews and create multiple subfrequencies, distinguished by their degree of twistedness. Each subchannel carries discrete data sets. “You can tune the wave with a given frequency as you normally do, but there is also a fingerprint left by the twist,” Tamburini says... Image: Warped radio waves may satisfy the ballooning demand for spectrum space. Source: iStockphoto

  • 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Fire | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • Dawn of the BioHackers | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-05 20:30:00
    Hugh Rienhoff climbs the stairs into his attic and ascends into a universe of genes, a space dominated by printouts and digital displays of his daughter’s DNA. It is a ritual he has followed regularly for the past five years, retreating here or to a makeshift basement lab in his San Francisco–area home, on the hunt for an error hidden somewhere within Beatrice Rienhoff’s genetic code. A mutation for which there are no data anywhere in medicine has depleted her muscle mass and weakened her joints. As an infant, Beatrice could not hold up her head at a time when most other babies her age were long past that milestone. Today, at age 7, she is heartbreakingly thin and wears braces in her shoes to support her fragile ankles. Finding the cause could point the way to a meaningful treatment. Even though Rienhoff is the founder of two biotechnology companies and holds a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, he has conducted his hunt not as an expert in human genomics but as a do-it-yourself biologist, teaching himself the tricks of the trade as he moves along and doing his research at home. As a gene tracker, he has collected data on more than a billion DNA sequences in a lonely search that has taken him down dozens of blind alleys. Yet despite occasional doubts, he knows he is moving in the right direction. In fact, Rienhoff suspected his daughter’s condition was caused by a genetic glitch the moment he laid eyes on her. The problem was that neither he nor any of his colleagues knew which gene, or genes, was to blame. To find out, Rienhoff and his wife, Lisa Hane, first sought out an army of geneticists from coast to coast. “When my daughter was born, we went through the usual diagnostic circles, and arriving at nothing concrete, we went through a more extensive process, going outside the San Francisco Bay Area, going to Hopkins where I trained. And I said to them, ‘Why don’t you take a crack at this?’ ” Doctors offered many possibilities, but their theories inevitably led to dead ends. And since a medical condition with an apparent patient population of one could hardly garner federal funding, Rienhoff recast himself as a citizen scientist, a do-it-yourselfer who now finally has a candidate gene in hand. Rienhoff retreated to his solitary attic to help his daughter, but he is not alone in his approach. A growing cadre of do-it-yourself (DIY) biologists have taken to closets, kitchens, basements, and other offbeat lab spaces to tinker with genomes, create synthetic life-forms, or—like Rienhoff—seek out elusive cures... Image: Ellen Jorgensen, at the work in the Genspace laboratory. Credit: Grant Delin.

  • Vital Signs: Far From Oakay | DISCOVER Magazine

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  • JPK Instruments Launches NanoWizard 3 NanoOptics AFM System

    Updated: 2011-10-05 00:20:18
    JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, continue to expand its family of high performance research systems with the...

  • Where Bullet Trains Run the Gauntlet | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-05 00:15:00
    
Artificial snow pelts the lead car of the 460-passenger Velaro D, Germany’s newest high-speed train, during extreme weather testing at the Rail Tec Arsenal research facility in Vienna. As part of its safety tests, Siemens, the train’s manufacturer, purchased 1,000 hours in a 300-foot-long wind tunnel, where independent inspectors exposed a prototype to rain, sleet, and snow in temperatures ranging from below zero to more than 110 degrees Fahrenheit... Image: Stress-testing a train. Credit: Siemens.

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