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Promise Of Nanodiamonds For Safer Gene Therapy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Late stage oxidation strategy passes the test in complex molecule synthesis
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Model Suggests How Life’s Code Emerged From Primordial Soup
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
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)
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,...