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Researchers Conduct Basic Chemistry Experiment in World's Smallest Test Tube

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair. The nano-scale ...

15 Oct 2009

High Gain Detector Could Replace Stacked MCPs in Critical Applications

Arradiance, Inc. announced today the demonstration of the world's highest gain microchannel plate, with measured gain reaching 1 million at selected operating parameters.

15 Oct 2009

Argonne and Berkeley Lab to Examine Cloud Computing for Scientists to Accelerate Nanotechnology Discoveries

A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 14 Oct 2009

Revolutionary 3D CMOS Camera Makes Impact in Biomedical Imaging

European researchers have created a world-leading camera in CMOS that can record photons at a million times a second. Best of all, it will be really cheap to manufacture, offering applications in consumer products, entertainment and in-car safety systems.

14 Oct 2009

Development of Selective Nanosensors to Detect Toxic Industrial Chemicals

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced it has signed a research agreement with the U.S. Army RDECOM Acquisition Center for a cost reimbursement contract that could be worth up to $1.75 million.

From Nanosensors 14 Oct 2009

Three-Dimensional Measurement on the Nanoscale

From the motion sensor to the computer chip, in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths -- or even millionths -- of millimetres.

13 Oct 2009

DirectFRAP from Carl Zeiss Answers Questions on Dynamics in Live Cell Imaging

Carl Zeiss has developed the DirectFRAP imaging system for all microscope users in cell biology and molecular genetics who examine processes in living cells on the basis of fluorescence-labeled proteins.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 13 Oct 2009

Max Planck Innovation Grants Rights for Developing New Nanoscopic Method to Leica Microsystems

Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society, grants Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, an exclusive license for implementing the latest generation of optical microscopes with a resolut...

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 13 Oct 2009

Industry's First Commercial Dual Wavelength X-Ray Diffractometer

SAFC Pharma®, a business segment of SAFC®, a member of the Sigma-Aldrich® Group (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced that its Pharmorphix® Solid State Research Laboratories in Cambridge, UK, have installed a n...

13 Oct 2009

Nanotechnology Could Add to Our Understanding of Diseases

A new advanced method for nano-scale imaging of vesicle-fusion could add to our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and viral infections. In the long term, this could be useful in developing a cure for neurological diseases and mental disorders.

13 Oct 2009