Scientists have leaped over a major hurdle in efforts to begin commercial production of a form of carbon that could rival silicon in its potential for revolutionizing electronics devices ranging from supercomputers to cell phones. Called graphene, the material consists of a layer of graphite 50,000 times thinner than a human hair with unique electronic properties. Their study appears in ACS …

Some laws are made to be broken, and others are made to be followed. A team of IBM Researchers in collaboration with two Swiss partners are looking to keep one law in particular alive and well for another 15 years: Moore’s Law. The law states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit will double every 18 months. More than 50 years old, this law is …

Sean Steels , Senior News Editor (Re)grow to show Professor Molly Shoichet will be speaking at the University of Alberta on the topic of regenerative medicine strategies in the central nervous system. Shoichet has worked at the University of Toronto as the Associate Director of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and is a Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering. read more

A free public forum, “Nano-Meeter,” will inform attendees about cutting edge nanotechnology and nanoscale materials in a campus presentation this Thursday, courtesy of a number of scientific campus organizations.

Health Discovery Corporation (OTCBB: HDVY) announced today that it supports the American Cancer Society’s decision to issue new guidelines in the face of substantial data found in the largest prostate cancer studies ever conducted that were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009. These published studies warned that using PSA to screen for prostate cancer doesn’t …

Agnese Nano, a 44-year-old Italian film and theater star, is famous for her role as the young “Elena” in Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 masterpiece “Cinema Paradiso.” “Cinema Paradiso,” the Academy Award winner for best foreign language film in 1989, represented a turning point in her career and greatly changed her life, Nano said in a recent interview with Xinhua. “I still remember that feeling; I …

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) at England’s University of Bristol have entered into an agreement to expand research collaborations and educational exchanges in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

SAVANNAH, Ga.—-Health Discovery Corporation announced today that it supports the American Cancer Society’s decision to issue new guidelines in the face of substantial data found in the largest prostate cancer studies ever conducted that were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009.

Imagine all the parts that make up a car. Dozens of different pieces work together to create a functioning machine, and it is only when all of these parts operate at once that the machine works. Now imagine this type of sophistication working at a small enough level to fit inside a blood cell. Nanotechnology, which [...]

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have obtained the first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface. Detailed information about the size and shape of these bubbles – and the non-stick material the scientists created by “pock-marking” a smooth material with cavities measuring mere billionths of a meter – is …

New Epcot Center exhibition brings nano to the masses

Could lead to design of water-shedding materials for applications in energy, medicine, and moreScientists at the U.S.

New Epcot Center exhibition brings nano to the massesA new long-term exhibition at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fl., will bring visitors face to face with the nanoworld.Housed in the Innoventions pavilion at Epcot Center, the exhibition Take a Nanooze Break features a series of interactive, continually updated displays that allow visitors to manipulate models of molecules …

(PhysOrg.com) — The first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface could lead to new super-slick materials with applications in energy, medicine, and more.

Scientists are reporting an advance toward scavenging energy from walking, breathing, and other natural body movements to power electronic devices like cell phones and heart pacemakers. In a study in ACS’ Nano Letters, they describe development of flexible, biocompatible rubber films for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting systems. The material could be used, for instance, to …

(PhysOrg.com) — Dartmouth researcher Ivan Aprahamian and his team have developed a new molecular switch that changes its configuration as a function of the pH of the environment. This discovery might someday help lead to targeted drug delivery systems, molecular-level data storage, and molecular electronics – all important objectives in nanotechnology.

The Nano Mission Council today said the country will soon have a Nanotechnology Regulatory Board to regulate the industrial nanotech products that are used in day-to-day life.

Spurred in part by the debate over Bt brinjal, and in part by the controversy raised abroad by certain products based on nanotechnology, the government is planning to set up a regulatory board in March that will examine all new nanotechnology devices before they are commercially marketed. Anika Gupta examines…

As efforts such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and others generate vast quantities of information about the genetic makeup of different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that such information has great potential for determining which anticancer drugs should be used to treat a specific patient. However, realizing that potential will require not only that cancer researchers uncover …

The country is getting set for a Nanotechnology Regulatory Board to regulate industrial nanotech products used in everyday life.