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Engineering Materials that Act as Superconductors at the Nanoscale

One major goal on the path toward making useful superconducting devices has been engineering materials that act as superconductors at the nanoscale - the realm of billionths of a meter. Such nanoscale superconductors would be useful in devices such as superconductive transistors and eventually in ultrafast, power-saving electronics.

9 Oct 2008

Discovery of New Material Allows the Use of Hydrogen as a Clean Fuel

A team of scientists from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has designed a material with such high ion conductivity that it allows the use of hydrogen as a clean fuel. The research work has been published in th...

7 Oct 2008

WaferGen Signs Distribution Agreements for SmartSlide Micro-Incubation System in Europe and Asia

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art gene expression, genotyping, cell biology and stem cell research systems, today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement for the comp...

From Takara Bio USA, Inc. 7 Oct 2008

Fluorescent Proteins Making it Possible to Track Nerve Cell Communication

Thought processes made visible: An international team of scientists headed by Mazahir Hasan of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in optically detecting individual action potentials in the brains of living animals.

7 Oct 2008

Leading Supplier for MEMS Market Receives Multiple Orders for EVG Systems

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that three European universities -- Southampton University, University...

7 Oct 2008

Nanotech Device that Resembles Flippers on a Pinball Machine

With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices on and off? In an advance toward giving humans that control, scientists in The Netherlands are reporting use of an external electrical signal to control an atomic-scale mechanical device that looks like the flippers on a pinball machine.

6 Oct 2008

$1.14 Million Federal Grant to to Equip Nanoscience Laboratories

As anticipated, Northwest has received a $1.14 million federal grant that will be used to equip nanoscience laboratories in the University's new Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. When completed next year...

4 Oct 2008

Scientists Shed New Light on Bacterial 'Crisis Command Centres'

EU-funded scientists have shed new light on bacterial 'crisis command centres', giant molecules that help bacteria mount a rapid response to a wide range of stresses and dangers. The findings, which are published in the latest edition of the journal Science, increase our understanding of how bacteria survive in harsh, changing environments.

4 Oct 2008

JPK Instruments to Hold Workshop to Discuss The Latest AFM Developments

JPK Instruments is pleased to announce a workshop to be held on Tuesday 2nd December at the Oxford Science Park. This free workshop combines presentations on cutting edge applications and new instrumental breakthroug...

From Bruker BioAFM 4 Oct 2008

New Software from Carl Zeiss Revolutionizes Cellular Studies

Cellular studies are revolutionized with the launch of new software from Carl Zeiss that automatically extracts biologically relevant data from micrographs by combining high-resolution fluorescence imaging and complex image analysis.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 3 Oct 2008