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  • Research into Metamaterials for Invisibility Cloaking Nets £4.9 Million Funding Boost
    News - 12 Nov 2009
    Research into designing and building unique 'metamaterials' has received a £4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust, it is announced today. Metamaterials can be used for...
  • New Process Promises More Efficient Solar Cells
    News - 11 Aug 2009
    Growing - and precisely aligning - microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have developed...
  • Nanoscale Lasers Could Speed Up Computers and the Internet
    News - 28 Jul 2009
    We could soon see the potential of laser technology expand dramatically. Ways to make lasers smaller are being discovered through collaborative efforts of researchers at Arizona State University and...
  • Car Makers using More Aluminum Than Ever Before
    News - 13 May 2009
    More aluminium than ever before is being used in North America-produced passenger cars and trucks. The light metal accounts for 8.6 percent of average vehicle curb weight this year, compared to 2...
  • Gold Nanospheres Seek and Destroy Cancer
    News - 23 Mar 2009
    Researchers are describing a long-awaited advance toward applying the marvels of nanotechnology in the battle against cancer. They have developed the first hollow gold nanospheres - smaller than the...
  • Gold Coated Silicon Used to Create World's Smallest Periscope
    News - 25 Feb 2009
    A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at...
  • Fascinating Gold Nanostructures Observed Using FELIX
    News - 6 Aug 2008
    Scientists from Germany, Canada and the Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms. For example,...
  • Clothes that Glow in the Dark
    News - 30 Oct 2007
    Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed high-tech textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark. The yarns have been developed by The William Lee Innovation...
  • New Tweezers Designed with Invisible Switchless Switching Technology
    News - 24 Nov 2006
    Is it at all possible to improve a mundane everyday item such as a pair of tweezers? After all, it has the simplest of forms and has worked reliably for as long as anyone can remember. "Most...
  • Black Gold Now a Reality!
    News - 23 Nov 2006
    "Black gold" is not just an expression anymore. Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a way to change the properties of almost any metal to render it, literally, black....

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