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Promise Of Nanodiamonds For Safer Gene Therapy

16 years ago from Science Daily

Researchers have introduced the power of nanodiamonds as a novel gene delivery technology that combines key properties in one approach: enhanced delivery efficiency along with outstanding biocompatibility. The researchers engineered...

Polymer-coated nanorods are created

16 years ago from UPI

HOUSTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have created a polymer-coated version of gold-platinum nanorods, the first catalysts of their kind.

Increasing Residential And Employment Density Could Mean Reductions In Vehicle Travel, Fuel Use And Carbon Dioxide Emissions

16 years ago from Science Daily

Increasing population and employment density in metropolitan areas could reduce vehicle travel, energy use, and carbon dioxide emissions from less than 1 percent up to 11 percent by 2050.

Smallest semiconductor laser is created

16 years ago from UPI

BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of California-Berkeley say they have created the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ushering in a new era in optical science.

Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility

16 years ago from Physorg

The University of Southampton`s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry within 5 years. 

Complex shines a light on its own creation

16 years ago from Chemistry World

A complex that spontaneously forms at a surface and then signals its own assembly has been created by scientists

The Race to the Higgs Boson: LHC Versus Tevatron

16 years ago from PopSci

It's on! While the LHC's in the shop for repairs from its massive breakdown last September, an older particle accelerator might beat them to finding the Higgs boson, the fundamental particle...

Silk-based optical waveguides meet biomedical needs

16 years ago from

There is a growing need for biocompatible photonic components for biomedical applications - from in vivo glucose monitoring to detecting harmful viruses or the telltale markers of Alzheimer's. Optical waveguides...

Modeling Nano-worlds: Slashing Production Development Time And Costs For Integrated Circuits

16 years ago from Science Daily

Modeling the fabrication processes for integrated circuits can slash production development time and costs by up to 40%. But as transistors, already at nano-scales, become ever smaller, researchers are modeling...

Up-scale: Frequency Converter Enables Ultra-high Sensitivity Infrared Spectrometry

16 years ago from Science Daily

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers have developed a new, highly sensitive, low-cost technique for measuring...

New Gravity - Redefining our perception

16 years ago from Science Blog

Here's an interesting view - There is no such thing as gravity! While that seems absurd (everyone knows and experiences gravity 24/7) the truth is that we observe "a...

Opinion: Benefits in user-pays driving

16 years ago from Science Alert

Harry Clarke and David Prentice explain why road charges varying by time, location and distance could benefit both the environment and the economy.

Tiny Laser Could Light the Way to New Microchip Technology

16 years ago from Science NOW

By amplifying electronic waves instead of light waves, a novel device wriggles around the size limit for conventional lasers

After the Transistor, a Leap Into the Microcosm

16 years ago from NY Times Science

With silicon nanowires, computer scientists seek a basic building block for a new kind of electronics to outpower today’s transistors.

An Instant Breathalyzer Test for Lung Cancer

16 years ago from PopSci

An electronic nose that uses nanoparticles could detect lung cancer through breathalyzer tests Patients of the future may take a deep breath, and then huff a sigh of relief -- no lung...

Exploring Ways to Expand Power Grid

16 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make...

Elpida Completes Development of Cu-TSV (Through Silicon Via) Multi-Layer 8-Gigabit DRAM

16 years ago from Physorg

Elpida Memory today announced that it has completed development of a Cu-TSV (Through Silicon Via) multi-layer 8-Gigabit DRAM.

Black carbon is not chemically inert as previously thought

16 years ago from Physorg

A paper by two University of Delaware researchers was recently highlighted on the web site of Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), which publishes papers in advance of their appearance in...

New study will contribute to better understanding of nuclear ignition

16 years ago from Physorg

As the nation's nuclear weapons are aging (think the beginning of the Cold War), the U.S. government is turning to researchers and scientists at universities such as UC San Diego...

Powerful Ideas: Bacteria Clean Sewage and Create Electricity

16 years ago from Live Science

Batteries made with microbes could help generate power by cleaning up organic waste at the same time.

Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label

16 years ago from NY Times Science

Builders covet a green certification, but many buildings do not save as much energy as their designs predicted.

Mysterious Charge Transport In Self-assembled Monolayer Transistors Unraveled

16 years ago from Science Daily

Researchers have discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs). This opens the door to extremely sensitive chemical sensors that can be...

Tiny 'MEMS' Devices To Filter, Amplify Electronic Signals

16 years ago from Science Daily

Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other more exotic...

C-H oxidation proves its worth

16 years ago from Chemistry World

Late stage oxidation strategy passes the test in complex molecule synthesis

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16 years ago from Science Blog

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Model Suggests How Life’s Code Emerged From Primordial Soup

16 years ago from Science Daily

In 1952, Stanley Miller filled two flasks with chemicals assumed to be present on the primitive Earth, connected the flasks with rubber tubes and introduced some electrical sparks as a...

New Research Supports Model For Nuclear Pore Complex

16 years ago from Science Daily

To protect their DNA, cells in higher organisms are very choosy about what they allow in and out of their nuclei, where the genes reside. Guarding access is the job...

Mouse trap history disagrees with intelligent design (still under construction)

16 years ago from Science Blog

by JLD a1ias@gmx.net Abstract Advocates of intelligent design (ID) claim that irreducibly complex systems, like mouse traps that do not work if one part is missing, cannot evolve through continuously improving the initial function by slight,...