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Nanoscopic changes to pancreatic cells reveal cancer
A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters.   view more (2009-02-13)

NYU physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video
Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video.   view more (2009-07-21)

Artist and scientists create a "walk-in brain"
Imagine what it would be like to walk into a brain and experience the sights and sounds of thinking in action. Norwegian artist Sol Sneltvedt set her own grey matter to work on this problem and, in collaboration with University of Sussex neuroscientist Professor Michael O'Shea, has created Mindscape, a dynamic audio visual-art installation which... view more... (2004-03-24)

Research could help finger more criminals
Scientists at the University of Sunderland are working on new technology that could help police forces catch criminals, by providing more clear and detailed fingerprints. Researchers at the university's School of Health, Natural & Social Sciences are developing what's known as a nanoparticle suspension, which could be a major breakthrough for... view more... (2003-11-14)

Sticky dust fingers the culprits
EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 19:00 HRS GMT NANOPARTICLES could give police the clearest fingerprints yet. Officers search for prints by dusting a crime scene with fluorescent powder. This sticks to the oily residue left by the fingertip, showing up the whorls and ridges. But sometimes the prints are not clear enough to finger a suspect.... view more... (2003-11-05)

Physicists make crystal/liquid interface visible for first time
"Imagine you're a water molecule in a glass of ice water, and you're floating right on the boundary of the ice and the water," proposes Emory University physicist Eric Weeks. "So how do you know if you're a solid or a liquid?"   view more (2009-08-11)

Nanoparticles assemble by millions to encase oil drops
In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at Rice University have shown how tiny, stick-shaped particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets in water by spontaneously assembling into bag-like sacs.   view more (2008-05-30)

Researchers create first model for retina receptors
A team of scientists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has created the first genetic research model for a microscopic part of the eye that when missing causes blindness. The research appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.    view more (2008-10-01)

Duke scientists create airway spheres to study lung diseases
Using both animal and human cells, Duke University Medical Center scientists have demonstrated that a single lung cell can become one of two very different types of airway cells, which could lead to a better understanding of lung diseases.   view more (2009-07-29)

Magnetic microchip signals new direction in computing
Durham University scientists have successfully carried out a basic computer operation using a magnetic microchip - a major step along the way to establishing a new generation of electronics and computer technology. They are working in the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology, harnessing the magnetic properties of electrons, rather than their... view more... (2002-06-11)

New programme "art, science and business" started
After two years of preparation, the Akademie Schloss Solitude is pleased to announce its new internatioonal programme `art, science & business`, which will open the Akademie, its cultural potential and its network to young scientists and managers. The Akademie's unique worldwide network, established with and by artists over the last twelve... view more... (2002-08-14)

New bone bonding spheres aim to reduce implant replacement
Researchers at Oxford University’s Department of Materials have devised a new method of coating materials that are to be implanted into bone, resulting in encouraged bone in-growth and bonding while reducing the possibility of loosening implants.   view more (2002-08-02)

Opals manufactured by beetles
The gemstone opal could be manufactured synthetically copying a technique employed by a beetle to control the appearance of its outer shell. Researchers from the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford have discovered the first case of opal in an animal, in this case in the weevil Pachyrhynchus argus, found in forests in north-eastern... view more... (2003-12-16)

Surprising new insights into the repair strategies of DNA
A microscopic single-celled organism, adapted to survive in some of the harshest environments on earth, could help scientists gain a better understanding of how cancer cells behave.   view more (2009-07-16)

Next-generation microcapsules deliver 'chemicals on demand'
Scientists in California are reporting development of a new generation of the microcapsules used in carbon-free copy paper, in which capsules burst and release ink with pressure from a pen.   view more (2009-10-29)

LIFE IN A FROZEN ENVIRONMENT-WHATS IN IT FOR US?
Life on the moons of Jupiter, and a source of healthy polyunsaturated fatty acids and low temperature enzymes that could even make washing powders work at low temperatures: The microbes that live in Antarctic sea ice may hold the answers to a host of everyday applications as well as revealing how life forms might be able to exist on frozen... view more... (2002-01-22)

A plant's arsenal of crystalline darts and sand
Pet owners have heard the warnings to keep certain poisonous houseplants away from their pets, such as Dieffenbachia (dumbcane), Philodendron, peace lily, and pothos. For houseplants like these and others, the problem may not just be a poison, but the presence of tiny crystals throughout the plant.   view more (2009-08-07)

Mothers-in-law - no joke for daughters-in-law
The mother-in-law may have long been the butt of many a male comedian's humour, but to the daughter-in-law, her spouse's mother is no joke. According to a study presented today, Monday 20 December, at The British Psychological Society's London Conference, held at the Institute of Education, the mother-in-law's relationship with her daughter-in-law... view more... (1999-12-16)

Coral reef fish harbor an unexpectedly high biodiversity of parasites
IRD researchers showed that Epinephilus maculates, a fairly abundant species of grouper off New Caledonia, was parasitized by 12 species of microscopic monogenean worms.   view more (2007-09-06)

Astronomers find grains of sand around distant stars
In a find that sheds light on how Earth-like planets may form, astronomers this week reported finding the first evidence of small, sandy particles orbiting a newborn solar system at about the same distance as the Earth orbits the sun. The report will be published online this week by the journal Nature.   view more (2008-03-13)
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