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BEST Announces AIXUV Acquisition

Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST) today announced that its subsidiary has acquired the assets of AIXUV GmbH in Aachen, Germany, a company specializing in XUV/EUV systems and key components.

15 Mar 2010

Nanobotmodels Company Offer Vision of Future DNA and Cell-Repair Techniques

Developments in nanotechnology and nanorobotics are opening up the prospects for nanomedicine and regenerative medicine where informatics and DNA computing can become the catalysts enabling health care applications at sub-molecular or atomic scales.

15 Mar 2010

Researchers Look for Better Characterization of Single Nanoparticles

Calculations are fine, but seeing is believing. That's the thought behind a new paper by Rice University students who decided to put to the test calculations made more than a century ago. In 1908, the German phys...

15 Mar 2010

Scientists Record First Microscopic Images Showing Deadly Effects of AMPs

For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes.

14 Mar 2010

Neutron Detector System Seen as Alternative to Helium-3 Detectors

PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Nationa...

12 Mar 2010

Tao's Team Use Hybrid Technique to Detect Tiny Particles of TNT

Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals important in such areas as national ...

12 Mar 2010

MINI-ME and Other Two FASTSAT Instruments Ready for Space Launch

The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to uncover them to benefit us here on Earth. Known as MINI-ME, PISA and TTI, these instruments recently passed a series of important final tests to prove their readiness for spaceflight.

12 Mar 2010