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Electrons Trigger Precision Bond Breaking

RIKEN scientists have developed a method to control and study a chemical reaction in a single molecule. The technique could eventually help to fabricate advanced electronic devices molecule by molecule.

15 Aug 2008

NASA Uses Atomic Force Microscope to Produce First Ever Image of a Single Grain of Martian Dust

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope

15 Aug 2008

Nanoscientist Mass-Produced 2500 Olympics Logo on Grain of Rice

Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space.

15 Aug 2008

Anasys Instruments Wins Prestigious R+D 100 Award for VESTA Product

Anasys Instruments has won the prestigious R+D 100 award for its new VESTA product, a tool which revolutionizes thermal analysis with its ability to perform “point & click” micro and nano thermal analysis...

14 Aug 2008

Cell's Recognition of Danger Through Protein Response

In joint experimental work, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories and biologists at the University of New Mexico’s Cancer Research and Treatment Center have combined unusual techniques to make real-time movies that show exactly how a 50-nanometer-thick membrane notifies the cell it encloses that a hostile alien presence — an antigen — has made a landing.

14 Aug 2008

Promoting New Paradigm Unifying the Art-Science-Technology Intersections at Nanoscale

Children learn by exploring their world and will now be able to see a tiny version of our world that looks quite different with powerful microscopes to challenge their imaginations

14 Aug 2008

New Metamaterial Could Help Form Nanocircuits for High-Powered Computers

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render objects invisible to the human eye.

11 Aug 2008

New Ways to Detect Microscopic Contaminants in Drugs

Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to participate in the inspection of overseas drug-manufacturing facilities, the pharmaceutical industry is reexamining its approach to quality control. In response to this trend, ASPEX Corporation has announced the release of its Rx microanalysis solution, the first all-in-one system designed for detecting and characterizing microscopic contaminants in pharmaceuticals.

8 Aug 2008

Hitachi Developed New Type of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation has developed the SU8000, a new type of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) that features a newly developed top detector. The SU8000 was introduced on August 1.

8 Aug 2008

Nanoscale Atmospheric Aerosol Species Being Ignored in Climate Computer Models

Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-...

8 Aug 2008