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DNA origami puts a smart lid on solid-state nanopore sensors

The latest advance in solid-state nanopore sensors – devices that are made with standard tools of the semiconductor industry yet can offer single-molecule sensitivity for label-free protein screening ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Britannica's halt of print edition triggers sales

(AP) -- It turns out all Encyclopaedia Britannica had to do to breathe new life into the sale of its print edition was to kill it.

Technology / Business

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newspapers erect pay walls in hunt for new revenue

(AP) -- Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They're enticing people with a little free online content before asking ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Last entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica book form

Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New revenue model elusive for US papers: study

US newspapers are searching for a new revenue model in an era of falling circulation, declining print advertising dollars and free online competition.

Technology / Business

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 13

Harry Potter e-books coming to schools, libraries

(AP) -- Harry Potter e-books are coming to schools and libraries, at a date to be determined.

Technology / Other

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bismuth nanoparticles provide high fidelity images of breast tumors

By combining a nanoparticle that is readily visible in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans with a molecule that targets tumor lymph vessels and other tumor tissues, a research team from the University of California, San ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With WeVideo, you can edit video in the cloud, then share it

The Internet has long been a great place to express yourself in words. But two of the biggest trends on the Web, cloud computing and social networks, are also making it a great place to express yourself with images - to create ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A good nose: Researchers decipher interaction of fragrances and olfactory receptors

Banana, mango or apricot - telling these smells apart is no problem for the human nose. How the olfactory organ distinguishes such similar smells has been uncovered by an interdisciplinary team of German researchers at the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Singapore's SPH sues Yahoo! in copyright row

Asian media group Singapore Press Holdings is suing Yahoo! for copyright infringement, accusing the US Internet giant of reproducing its news items without permission.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Penguin suspends library e-books, citing security

One of the country's largest publishers, Penguin Group (USA), has suspended making e-editions of new books available to libraries and won't allow libraries to loan any e-books for Amazon.com's Kindle.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Chemists cram two million nanorods into single cancer cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University chemists have found a way to load more than 2 million tiny gold particles called nanorods into a single cancer cell. The breakthrough could speed development of cancer treatments ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Philly papers kick off Android tablet initiative

(AP) -- The owner of Philadelphia's two major newspapers is offering discounted tablet computers in an effort to attract more digital subscribers.

Technology / Business

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University chemists devise means to stabilize explosive CL-20

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan colleagues Adam Matzger and Onas Bolto have devised a means for making the transport and use of the highly explosive material CL-20 more stable. They describe in their ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Researchers use neutrons to spy on the elusive hydronium ion

A Los Alamos National Laboratory research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain biological reactions. The effort could aid in treatment of peptic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast