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Real Time Footage of the Nanoscale Interaction of an Enzyme, a DNA Strand and an Attacking Virus

For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary ...

18 Sep 2007

Magnetic Nanparticles Improve Data Storage

New research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory physicist Matthias Bode provides a more thorough understanding of new mechanisms, which makes it possible to switch a magnetic nanoparti...

15 Sep 2007

Writing and Storing Electronic Memory Improved

14 Sep 2007

Imago Announces a Number of Changes

Imago Scientific Instruments, the world’s leading provider of atom probe microscopes, today announced a number of organizational changes. Timothy J. Stultz, Ph.D. has assumed the position of Chairman of the boar...

14 Sep 2007

Groundbreaking Tabletop Microscope to be Exhibited at WIRED’s NextFest

Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. have announced that the company will exhibit the new TM-1000 Tabletop Microscope at the fourth annual WIRED NextFest™ 2007 event. The TM-1000 will be but one of the many inno...

13 Sep 2007

DNA Based Nano Sized Assembly

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new method for controlling the self-assembly of nanometer and micrometer-sized particles. The method, based on designed ...

13 Sep 2007

Berkeley Scientists Measure Atomic Spin and Move a Step Closer to Quantum Computers and Spintronics

Scientists who dream of shrinking computers to the nanoscale look to atomic spin as one possible building block for both processor and memory, yet setting the spin of an atom, let alone measuring it, has been a challenge...

13 Sep 2007

Low Profile Piezo Motor Stages Designed for Fast Sample Positioning

The M-686 low-profile piezo motor stages from Lambda Photometrics are designed for fast sample positioning in applications such as microscopy. $$IMAGE$$ This newly designed closed-loop XY stage is equipped with 0.1...

12 Sep 2007

Titanium Oxide Nanotubes and Nanorods Being Made in New Ways for Applications Like Sunscreens and Catalysts

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed new ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a material used in a variety of industrial and medical ...

11 Sep 2007

Scientists Develop New Nanolithography Technique For Drawing Nanosized Features

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquid...

11 Sep 2007