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Securing India?s science future14 Nov, 2009 04:53 pm While India is uniquely positioned to use technology for progress, it has in the recent past lagged behind in the quality and spread of science research...EU Set To Enter Clean Energy Race with $73 billion for R&D8 Oct, 2009 08:32 am Europe is planning to stage a grand entrance into the clean energy race by investing approximately $73 billion in clean energy research,...How long do solar panels last?5 Aug, 2009 11:12 am Solar photovoltaics slowly lose their generating capacity. Although some solar panels are still working satisfactorily 40 years after installation,...World's Most Powerful Laser Unveiled20 Jun, 2009 12:11 pm The world's most powerful laser was dedicated at the Livermore National Laboratory in California. It's designed to shore up the nation's aging nuclear...Trying to make me go to rehab, I?m saying Nano, Nano, Nano3 May, 2009 02:24 pm Amy Winehouse, who shot to stardom with her hit single ?rehab?, may never have to see rehab, if researchers have their way. Scientists have taken a significant...Future War Revisited21 Nov, 2008 11:18 am Think of a futuristic war scenario where soldiers are firing smart weapons from the confines of their command centres. Weapons that are capable of intercepting...The (Not So) Invincible Society3 Nov, 2008 03:11 pm Policymakers and the public think of modern industrial society as being resilient and durable. Are they right?The strange case of algal biofuels29 Oct, 2008 12:19 pm Algal biofuels are hot. The focus is on the production of algal oil (glycerol esters of fatty acids). The aircraft maker Airbus ?welcomes the idea?...Ups and Downs29 Sep, 2008 11:43 am Going up? Japan is looking at getting into the space elevator business. If they are truly serious about it, I would not bet against them achieving success...Receding Horizons for Alternative Energy Supplies5 Sep, 2008 11:52 am When energy optimists tout the huge supply of oil that is still available to us in the form of tar sands and oil shale, they forget to mention that costs...Hell in a handbasket?24 Jun, 2008 11:35 am So what is information technology doing to our brains? Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has written a book about the upside and the downside of a world...Power of Small: Introduction to Nanotechnology9 May, 2008 11:59 am How will nanotechnology change the world? Nanotechnology is a rapidly moving and all-encompassing suite of technologies that promises to change almost...It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Dad Is?9 May, 2008 11:59 am Barry Steinhart and Richard Atkinson debate tagging their father with a nanoscale tracking device to ensure his safety. The Power of Small panel discusses...Energy Trends & Technologies: Regent's Lecture at UC-Berkeley14 Mar, 2008 10:51 am Steven Koonin, Chief Scientist for BP & Professor of Physics, Caltech, gives a lecture on future energies. The world's demand for energy will grow by some...Green Computing11 Mar, 2008 11:43 am As companies expand, one of their concerns is restricting their carbon footprint. BBC World interviews Sean Whetstone, head of IT Services at Reed,...Hybrid Cars: A Troubled Future?3 Mar, 2008 02:54 pm According to a recent study, hybrid vehicles that run on both internal combustion engine and electric batteries are no more than a temporary step until...Nanovalve Material Captures and Stores Gases20 Feb, 2008 12:37 pm In a different approach to gas storage, a Ph.D. student, Brett Chandler and two professors, George Shimizu and David Cramb, at University of Calgary along...Focus on Nigeria: the SELF Project8 Feb, 2008 06:09 pm CNN's monthly series 'Global Challenges' travels around the world to bring feature reports on sustainable development, focusing on small-scale community...Nanotechnology in Medicine: Massive Advances on a Tiny Scale24 Jan, 2008 01:15 pm Professor Naomi Halas at Rice University (TX) discusses her nanotechnology research and its applicable uses in science and medicine of the future. (CNN)Will Nuclear Power Stations be Insurable?11 Jan, 2008 10:42 am The Government has announced its decision on nuclear power, which is SUCH a surprise!Rizhao, a Solar-Powered City in China8 Jan, 2008 11:20 am Australia news media, SBS, is praising a China north City, Rizhao, for its using solar power to save environment.Magic Bullets: How Nanosized Drug Packages Can Bring Drugs More Selectively to Cancer27 Nov, 2007 10:42 am Anticancer agents such as paclitaxel and cisplatin display a very high therapeutic potency towards isolated cancer cells. However,...Green Roofs: Ecosystem Services and Research Frontiers26 Nov, 2007 02:00 pm Green roofs are roofs with vegetation and substrate. They promote energy conservation in buildings, reduce the urban heat island effect,...Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna21 Nov, 2007 10:54 am Imaging techniques with high spatial resolution in the mid-infrared region of the optical spectrum (wavelength ranging from 3 microns to 25 microns) have...Nanotechnology Researchers at Northwestern University Revolutionize Drug Delivery with Advanced Nanomaterials22 Oct, 2007 10:09 am Nanodiamonds, a revolutionary class of nanomaterials, are 2 nanometers in diameter in single-particle form, and can be manipulated to form clusters with...Nanotechnology: 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics11 Oct, 2007 03:14 pm Drs. Albert Fert (France) and Peter Gr?nberg (Germany) were announced as the recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of "giant...DNA Markers and Computer Science Methodology Can be Used to Trace Individual Ancestry1 Oct, 2007 12:57 pm Genetic markers (variations in the DNA among individuals) can be used to infer population structure, a task that remains a central challenge in many areas...Junk DNA: Let me Say it One More Time24 Sep, 2007 03:58 pm The term "junk DNA" was not coined on the basis of not knowing what it does. It was not a cop-out or a surrender. Susumu Ohno coined the term in 1972 in...Three Good Reasons to Do Nanotechnology: 1. For a Sustainable Energy Economy20 Sep, 2007 12:57 pm When I was in Norway a few months ago, I was talking to an official from their research council about the Norwegian national nanotechnology strategy...A Public Scientist in the Biotechnology Debate?14 Sep, 2007 01:02 pm Science and technology play an increasingly prominent and often controversial role in modern human society. From biotechnology and genetic engineering...Watson's Genome, Venter's Genome, What's the Difference?11 Sep, 2007 11:25 am "Come quickly, Watson," said Sherlock Holmes, "I've been asked to review a mysterious sequence, whose importance I'm only now beginning to comprehend."Mosquito Immunity ? Combating the Resurgence of Malaria and Dengue17 Aug, 2007 11:41 am The sequencing of the second mosquito genome, that of the dengue and yellow fever transmitting mosquito, Aedes aegypti, has enabled comprehensive comparative...Nanotechnology Helps Scientists Make Bendy Sensors for Hydrogen Vehicles16 Aug, 2007 11:51 am Flexible hydrogen sensors and sensor arrays (i.e., sensory skins) can be used in a wide of range of systems which require demanding low cost,...Assembling Nanoparticles on Liquid Interfaces Leads to Fascinating New Materials30 Aug, 2007 02:46 pm Stefan A. F. Bon discusses how you can use liquid-liquid interfaces as a tool to assemble nanoparticles into larger structures...New Research Explores Making Electrical Contact with Nanotubes14 Aug, 2007 11:26 am With walls that can be just one atom thick, carbon nanotubes promise to enable technology that??s smaller, faster and more energy efficient than seems...Agriculture and Food Workers Challenge Nanotechnologies9 Aug, 2007 12:10 pm We analize the first declaration issued at a continental level by a federation of trade unions on nanotechnologies. In March, 2007,...Maize Streak Virus-Resistant Transgenic Maize: an African solution to an African Problem7 Aug, 2007 11:58 am Maize is not native to Africa; however, since being introduced by Portuguese traders in the 16th century, maize has replaced traditional African crops...4 27525 Jul, 2007 05:49 pm The number of public and private biotech enterprises in the world, among which 1 621 are in Europe and 1 452 in the United States (Ernst&Young).70 billion USD25 Jul, 2007 05:39 pm The historical record that the revenues of public companies exceeded in 2006 (Ernst&Young).Biotechnology, A Science at Stake25 Jul, 2007 12:06 pm The 21st century could be the century of the sciences of the living organisms and of biotechnologies. They represent the seeds of a real revolution in...I Didn't Notice I Lost a Gene27 Jul, 2007 09:49 am In the year 2000, at around the time that the first human genome sequence was completed, an inventory of the genetic material of the small mustard plant...Are You Listening as Well as You?re Hearing?26 Jul, 2007 07:03 pm When we listen, we do more than just hear. We make sense of a complex sound environment. We?re so good at it that we take our auditory processing skills...Improve Upon Nature: Genetically Encoding Unnatural Amino Acids27 Jul, 2007 09:49 am The building blocks of proteins in nearly all organisms are limited to 20 amino acids. It might be perfect for nature, but not ideal for scientists...Targeting and Detecting Cancer Cells Using Nanoparticles23 Jul, 2007 02:26 pm Current cancer therapy always experiences non-specific killing of healthy cells, thus the therapeutic efficiency is extremely low...Gold Nanoglue19 Jul, 2007 10:59 am At the nanoscale - the order of billionths of a meter, materials exhibit unique optical, electronic, and magnetic properties not seen at the bulk scale...Build Public Confidence in The Process And The Governance of Science12 Jul, 2007 12:18 pm Richard Wilson is the director of Involve and co-authored a recent report entitled, ?Democratic Technologies? Final report of the Nanotechnology Engagement...Carbon Nanotube Injects Living Cells Without Damage12 Jul, 2007 02:19 pm Cell biologists have been trying to figure out the complicated processes happening inside a living cell. One commonly used approach is to introduce or...Genome Transplantation - Coming to a Bacteria Near You6 Jul, 2007 01:36 pm Well, I was interviewed yesterday by the AP (see the AP article here*) relating to an article in Science on Genome Transplantation by John Glass,...Carbon Nanotubes Are Tougher and Supercompressible11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm We show that under repeated high compressive strains, the long nanotube block shows a viscoelastic behavior similar to that seen in the soft tissue membranes...Genes and the development of obesity6 Jul, 2007 01:36 pm Obesity is one of the main health problems of our times, and it is estimated that it concerns nearly 300 million people in the world. Furthermore,...Nanotechnology and Sustainability22 Jun, 2007 05:04 pm Nanotechnology has the potential to make a big impact on sustainability; but to achieve this potential, we need a multiple of cross disciplinary approaches...Deafness Research Has a Sound Future29 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm The inner ear contains six sensory organs, one auditory organ and five vestibular organs that subserve our sense of balance...Enabling New Medical Interventions through Medical Nanorobotics26 Jun, 2007 05:17 pm Nearly 100,000 km of blood vessels inside the human body could provide the best routes for conducting new or improved medical interventions non-invasively...It?s All In the Packaging25 Jun, 2007 04:43 pm Remember how the best chefs pay as much attention to the packaging and presentation of a dish as the food itself. It turns out that the human genome believes...Bioinformatician Interactions in Bioinformatics Support18 Jun, 2007 12:48 pm There was a call from Bioinformatics Zen a couple of weeks ago for a kind of ?special edition? for Bio::Blogs. The call requested: ?What would be your...Designing New Drug Nanocarriers18 Jun, 2007 03:43 pm The formulation of safe and efficient controlled drug delivery is an extremely important research topic. In particular, it is an ambitious goal for many...American bees mysteriously dying off21 Jun, 2007 11:33 am This is BBC news on the so called Colony Collapse: how bees in north America are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate, threatening the pollination industry...Bio Art19 Jun, 2007 02:28 pm Shawn Bailey and Jennifer Willet are Canada's leading practitioners of "Bio Art," an emerging form that uses the tools of biology to create works of art...Pilot of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Released Today13 Jun, 2007 07:00 pm After scientists revealed the map of the entire human genome in 2001, the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project was launched in September 2003...Antibodies, Malaria and Mice: the Beginning of a Wonderful Friendship18 Jun, 2007 12:49 pm Malaria is a parasitic disease transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is widespread in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world; however..."It Inevitably Raises the Question of Sex Selection"11 Jun, 2007 07:10 pm The British company DNA Worldwide raised a controversy last month by launching on the internet a home test called ?Pink or Blue?...GM Crops? Ecological Effects?7 Jun, 2007 08:00 pm Researchers at Santa Clara University in California have investigated the effects of genetically modified crops on insects. The study is published in the...Transferring Quantum Information from Light to Matter and Back Again12 Jun, 2007 02:18 pm A quantum computer is a device that can perform certain tasks much more efficiently than a classical computer byexploiting unique aspects of quantum mechanics...GM Food With Consumer Benefits Proves Popular Choice19 Jun, 2007 02:28 pm Many food-producing countries have been dissuaded from planting genetically modified (GM) crops because of a widely-held fear that consumers in rich countries...Scientists Decipher Rhesus Macaque Genome5 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm In the 13 April 2007 issue, Science unveiled the genome sequence of one of biology's most important model organisms: the rhesus macaque monkey (Macaca...Electronics, Photonics, Spintronics, Plasmonics And Now Scientists Introduce A New Field: Spinplasmonics6 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm Researchers at the Ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics Laboratory at the University of Alberta (U of A), Edmonton, Canada and the Naval Research Laboratory...Genetically Modified Crops with Mini-Chromosomes31 May, 2007 04:13 pm If anything mini is cute, do mini-chromosomes qualify?You and the $1000 Genome ? Part II: The International HapMap Project4 Jun, 2007 12:25 pm In Part I of the ?You and the $1000 Genome? series we examined the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, a $10 million purse for the group that can sequence 100..."Nanoscience Is More Than A Revolution, It's A Profound Mutation in The History of Humanity."25 May, 2007 03:56 pm Interview with J?el de Rosnay, scientist, essayist, and a consultant to the president of la Cit? des Sciences (Paris).A world under nano-surveillance25 May, 2007 03:55 pm Nanosurveillance, that is surveillance assisted by nanotechnology, constitutes one of the most hotly contested issues at the center of this technological...Nanorobots25 May, 2007 03:56 pm Among the possible nanotechnology applications, nanorobotics constitutes without a doubt one of the most fascinating. The idea is to build machines or...Insight Into The Nano World25 May, 2007 03:56 pm A technological revolution is occurring. It will create stronger materials, a new generation of medical treatments, and even more performant electronic...100 00025 May, 2007 02:19 pm A nanometer, the nanoworld scale, is 100 000 times finer than a strand of hair.The Science of Transgenic Technology4 Jun, 2007 12:25 pm What do humans, flies, and worms have in common? More than you might think. See how transgenic organisms are engineered, and how they enable researchers...Gene Therapy Fights Cancer25 May, 2007 03:55 pm A report on BBC News shows how gene therapy using viruses is a new frontier in the fight against cancer.BioJustice 2007 International Farmers Speak Out Pt. 131 May, 2007 04:10 pm University of California-Berkeley professor, Ignacio Chapela, speaks as part of the opening panel discussion during BioJustice 2007,...Scientists Develop Tiny Implantable Biocomputers21 May, 2007 07:00 pm Scientists at Harvard University and Princeton University have developed a tiny implantable biological computer that could revolutionize medicine...BioLaw At BIO 2007: Once and Future Genetown21 May, 2007 12:40 pm According to many of the founding myths of the industry, biotechnology was born in Boston. Regardless of when Beantown became Genetown,...[Video] Future of Food22 May, 2007 03:34 pm Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, The Future of Food is a documentary film (2004) by Deborah Koons Garcia, produced by Lily Films,...Transgenic Rabbits Glowing Green in the Dark...16 May, 2007 03:40 pm Hear Dr Houdebine describe his experiments on transgenic rabbits ! This is Episode 1 Part 4 of Animal Farm, a series from the UK's Channel 4 about modern...My Comment to ?Technology Transfer for the Poor?7 May, 2007 12:26 pm I agree fully with David DICKSON, Director of SciDev.Net, author of the article on Technology Transfer, that developing countries must adopt effective...Smart Nano Composite Inhibits Tooth Decay15 May, 2007 12:36 pm When tooth decay recurs after the initial restoration, it is termed secondary (or ?recurrent?) decay. It occurs mostly at where the filling material binds...A New Technique to Concentrate and Manipulate of Swimming Bacteria4 May, 2007 12:45 pm A surprising technique to concentrate, manipulate and separate a wide class of swimming bacteria has been identified through a collaboration between researchers...Nanotechnology for Healing Damaged Vascular Tissue4 May, 2007 12:45 pm Atherosclerotic vascular disease, characterized by artery hardening and vessel narrowing through plaque accumulation, has become the leading cause of death...Measurement Challenges Make Nanomaterials Assessments Difficult3 May, 2007 12:05 pm Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been highlighted repeatedly as a unique and versatile material that could revolutionize numerous industries in...Robust Spin Generates Hope for Spin Based Computers29 Mar, 2007 10:46 am Like a top spinning about its axis, an electron constantly rotates about its own axis creating a tiny magnetic moment known as the ?spin?..."The Data Show that Currently Approved GM Crops Have no Detectable Impact on Health"19 Jan, 2007 07:58 pm Lee Silver, author of "Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life", reviews for Scitizen the trends in the...Nanotechnology Research comes of age17 Jan, 2007 11:03 am Nearly half a century has passed since Richard Feynman pointed out the tremendous potential in making structures at the atomic scale...A Call For Transparency in Nanotechnology4 Jan, 2007 01:41 pm Professor Steven Currall recently published an article in Nature Nanotechnology. He answers our questions about the future and risks of nanoscience...2-D Or Not 2-D8 Jan, 2007 01:34 pm Over a century ago, when he invented the ubiquitous dish that bears his name, Julius Petri, a technician in Robert Koch?s laboratory,..."The Opportunities for Good and Bad Offered by Nanotechnology Demand an International Response"12 Sep, 2006 12:12 pm In his new book Nanotechnology: New Promises, New Dangers [1], Toby Shelley, journalist at the Financial Times, introduces us to the ?... |
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