A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. This approach combines top-down advanced ink-jet printing technology ...
Nanophysics
Sep 16, 2013
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Bed bugs now need to watch their step. Researchers at Stony Brook University have developed a safe, non-chemical resource that literally stops bed bugs in their tracks. This innovative new technology acts as a man-made web ...
Nanomaterials
May 31, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Every year millions of birds make heroic migratory journeys across oceans and continents guided by the Earth's magnetic field. How they detect those magnetic fields has puzzled scientists for decades.
Plants & Animals
Apr 26, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- Salmonella becomes dangerously virulent only when molecular sensors within the organism sense changes in the environment, a team of researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Microbial Diversity ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 15, 2012
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Everything — from noxious chemicals found in cigarette smoke or car exhaust, to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, to even something as benign as oxygen — is working overtime to damage DNA. Fortunately, all living ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 27, 2012
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Weizmann Institute scientists have 'trained' an electronic system to be able to predict the pleasantness of novel odors, just like a human would perceive them - turning the popular notion that smell is completely personal ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2009
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Our cells are controlled by billions of molecular "switches" and chemists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a theory that explains how these molecules work. Their findings may significantly help efforts to build biologically ...
Biochemistry
Aug 3, 2009
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Researchers in the University of Georgia College of Engineering are developing a new way to detect potentially deadly Listeria contamination in food.
Biochemistry
Aug 10, 2022
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Atomically thin semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide are promising materials for nanoscale photonic devices. These approximately 2D semiconductors support so-called excitons, which are bound ...
Nanophysics
Jun 14, 2022
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