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Researchers Discover Cost-Effective Rotavirus Detection Method Using Nanotechnology

Using nanotechnology and a patented signal enhancing technique developed at the University of Georgia, UGA researchers have discovered a rapid, sensitive and cost-effective method to detect and identify a number of rotav...

14 May 2010

Nanotechnology Professor Awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize

An Imperial College London physicist was presented with a prestigious prize for his research this week at a ceremony in Tel Aviv, Israel. Professor Stefan Maier investigates how nano-scale metal structures react with ...

14 May 2010

The "Hall" Mark of a Quantum Magnet

An important model to explain high-temperature superconductivity is the so-called 'quantum spin liquid'. Scientists are therefore interested in understanding the low-energy excitations of this magnetic state. Now...

13 May 2010

Thermo Fisher Announces Webinar on Future Trends in Elemental Food Safety Analysis

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its educational webinar, entitled “Preparing for Future Trends in Elemental Food Safety Analysis,” is now available to view on-demand at www.spectroscopynow.com/thermowebinars.

13 May 2010

Scientists Reveal Secret Behind Formation of Spider Silk Fibers

Five times the tensile strength of steel and triple that of the currently best synthetic fibers: Spider silk is a fascinating material. But no one has thus far succeeded in producing the super fibers synthetically. How...

13 May 2010

Microwave Transistor Laser Drives Modification of Current Law

While the laws of physics weren't made to be broken, sometimes they need revision. A major current law has been rewritten thanks to the three-port transistor laser, developed by Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr. at ...

13 May 2010

Use of Laser Beams to Inscribe Patterns on Microchips

Researchers from around the world will present the latest breakthroughs in electro-optics, innovative developments in laser science, and commercial applications in photonics at the 2010 Conference on Lasers and Elec...

13 May 2010

Nature and Technology - How Evolution Meets Computation

Nature and technology may seem worlds apart, but New York University Computer Scientist Dennis Shasha maintains that the natural world can bolster the capacity of today's most sophisticated machines. In Natural Compu...

12 May 2010

Universal Display, Moser Baer Chosen for New U.S. DOE Program

Universal Display Corporation along with Moser Baer Technologies, has been awarded $4,000,000 for a two-year program from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for a program titled “Creation of a U.S. Phosphorescent OLED Lighting Panel Manufacturing Facility.”

12 May 2010

New Method to Control Phase of Ultrashort Laser Pulse

Lasers can now generate light pulses down to 100 attoseconds thereby enabling real-time measurements on ultrashort time scales that are inaccessible by any other methods.

12 May 2010