Location: Delft, Germany
Molecular systems, or systems based on small organic molecules, possess
interesting and useful electronic properties. The rapidly developing area of
organic -or plastic- electronics is based on these materials. The investigations
of...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: Bonn, Germany
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn,
Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have
detected two of the most complex molecules yet discovered in interstellar space:...
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Location: New York, United States
Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a
bipedal, autonomous DNA "walker" that can mimic a cell's transportation system.
The device, which marks a step toward more complex synthetic molecular motor
systems, is...
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Location: Florida, United States
Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the...
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Location: Harvard, United States
From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered...
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Location: Toulouse, France
Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?...
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created nanoscale particles that can self-assemble into various optical devices. By controlling how densely the tiny silver particles assemble themselves, the researchers can make several...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon
nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves
within these tiny channels.
This is the first time researchers were able to...
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Location: Institute for NanoScience and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, United States
University of
Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or
carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain
circumstances and, in...
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Location: Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, United States
For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of
science fiction — in last summer's blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys
use quantum computing to break into the
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery
to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a
repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate
patterns...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A team led by a
Purdue University
researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved.
Wen...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Researchers from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a key molecular mechanism
that may account for the development of cystic fibrosis, which about 1 in 3000...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
All the crucial proteins in our bodies must fold into complex shapes to do
their jobs. These snarled molecules grip other molecules to move them around, to
speed up important chemical reactions or to grab onto our genes, turning them
"on"...
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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Location: University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Scientists at the University of Leeds
are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process which could make
eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to produce.
Biodiesel –...
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