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ORNL Researchers Win Eight R+D 100 Awards

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been honored with eight awards in the annual R+D 100 Awards by R+D Magazine. Sometimes referred to as the "Academy Awards of Science," the magazine selected win...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 8 Jul 2010

Researchers Can Better Study Individual Cells Using New Nanowire-Based Technique

Imagine being able to drop a toothpick on the head of one particular person standing among 100,000 people in a stadium. It sounds impossible, yet this degree of precision at the cellular level has been demonstrated ...

8 Jul 2010

Scientists Use Photoemission Spectroscopy to Study Ultracold Atomic Gases

Scientists at JILA, working with Italian theorists, have discovered another notable similarity between ultracold atomic gases and high-temperature superconductors, suggesting there may be a relatively simple shared explanation for equivalent behaviors of the two very different systems.

8 Jul 2010

Veeco Introduces IRIS Models for Innova and BioScope Catalyst Atomic Force Microscopes

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force microscopy technology to the nanoscience community, announced today the release of the IRIS(TM) models for Innova(R) and BioScope(TM) Catalyst(T...

7 Jul 2010

New Microscope Captures Amazing Images of Animal Development

To understand the complex stages of an embryo, you cannot simply watch it grow. However, it's difficult to accurately observe such fine, complex and high-speed details, even under the microscope.

7 Jul 2010

Scientists Use Scanning Tunneling Microscope to Study Rotaxane Molecular Machines

In the development of future molecular devices, new display technologies, and "artificial muscles" in nanoelectromechanical devices, functional molecules are likely to play a primary role. Rotaxanes, one fa...

7 Jul 2010

Olympus’ LEXT OLS4000 Confocal Microscope Used for NPL Project

Olympus has today announced that the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is using its LEXT OLS4000 in a project to establish good practice guidelines for the calibration of 3D/areal surface texture measuring instruments.

6 Jul 2010

Atomic Force Microscopy Helps to Study Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions

Protein−carbohydrate interactions play a crucial role in many biological processes such as cell−cell recognition and receptor−ligand interactions and catalysis. This thesis explores the possibilities of engineering the protein–carbohydrate interactions between carbohydrate-binding proteins and their ligands.

5 Jul 2010

Researchers Use Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Emulsions

New work from the Institute of Food Research has shown how sugar beet pectin acts as an efficient emulsifier, using a technique that could be used to unravel in the finest detail how such important food ingredients work.

2 Jul 2010

Study on Quantum-to-Classical World Transition

Darwinian concept of natural selection figures into theory about the core of physical reality Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that c...

2 Jul 2010