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 Recent research news from the front lines of the
 nanotech/biotech/communications revolution:

5/06/07: Protein Enables Discovery Of Quantum Effect In Photosynthesis

2/28/07: Microscope discerns atoms of different elements

1/19/07: Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- On One Photon

 

3/15/07: The universe is a string-net liquid

2/01/07: How Does Your Brain Tell Time?


12/15/06: Cloning Nanotubes

10/16/06: A Single-Pixel Digital Camera

6/03/06: Carbon nanotubes pinned down at last

5/11/06: Carbon Nanotubes Hottest Topic In Physics

4/17/06: Circuitry Based On Graphite

4/14/05: Print Me a Heart and a Set of Arteries

3/24/06: Gravito-magnetic Field Measured

2/19/06: Ball Lightning Created in the Laboratory

 

11/10/06: Spin measured without destruction

8/20/06: 'Electron-spin' trick boosts quantum computing

6/2/06: Nanocrystal Displays

4/26/06: Tissue Engineers Position Cells in 3D

4/14/06: Making Quantum Information Practical

3/31/06: New Method For Synthesis Of Nanomaterials

3/07/06: Towards Entangled-Photon LEDs


10/31/05: 'Dark' Spins In Diamond

9/27/05: Nano-walker with Potential Applications In Molecular Computing

9/02/05: Virtual-Particle Magnetism

7/4/05: A New Nanostructure

11/11/05: Electrons lose their mass in carbon sheets

10/20/05: Atoms Under Control

9/11/05: Nanohelix Piezoelectric Devices

7/09/05: Doping Semiconductor Nanocrystals

6/08/05: Nanoprinter Could Impact Production Of Nano-Devices

5/18/05: Magnetic Nanotube Memory

5/13/05: Nanotube X-ray Device

5/05/05: Lens Makers Go Flat Out

4/14/05: A Solid-State Refrigerator

3/25/05: Superfluid Solid Hydrogen

3/22/05: First Membrane-Free Alkaline Fuel Cell Built

2/25/05: "Optical Vortices" Might Extract Abundant Information From Matter

2/17/05: Evidence For Quantized Displacement

2/08/05: A New Form Of Chemistry

1/29/05: Nanotubes Crank Out Hydrogen

1/19/05: Looking at electrons without touching

1/11/05: Magnetic Silicon Advances Spin Based Computing

1/03/05: Ultracapacitors

12/17/04: World's Tiniest Non-Volatile Chip Unveiled

12/14/04: Buckyball Solar Cells

12/07/04: Onion-Like Layers Create Flexible, Lightweight Lens

11/29/04: Self-assembly Of Spider Silk Fiber In Insect Cells

11/19/04: Atom Lithography

11/04/04: A New Type Of Solar Cell

10/27/04: Zoom Pancake Lens

10/22/04: Physicists Transfer Information Between Matter And Light

10/22/04: Living Neural Network Flies An Airplane

10/16/04: Separating Quantum Spins

10/09/04: Enzymes As Quantum Operants

10/07/04: Physicists Build Quantum Data Memory

9/24/04: Nanotubes on Cloth Emit Electrons

9/20/04: Nanowire Makes Standup Transistor

9/17/04: World Record Length Carbon Nanotube

9/17/04: An Antenna For Visible Light

9/06/04: Floating Femtodroplets

9/01/04: Scientists See Through Carbon Nanotubes

8/17/04: Nanotubes May Have No 'Temperature'

7/29/04: Electric Fields Assemble Devices

7/28/04: Nanoimprint Lithography Gets Smaller

7/24/04: Cure In Sight For 'Pink Noise' In Quantum Dots

7/24/04: Scientists Control a Single Electron's Spin

7/23/04: 'Cool' Fuel Cells Could Revolutionize Earth's Energy Resources

7/19/04: 'Flying' Nanotubes Are Strong And Hard

7/08/04: Solar-Cell Rollout

7/08/04: Controllable Nano-Diode Created

6/16/04: Teleportation Breaks New Ground

6/10/04: Microscopy Moves To The Picoscale

5/14/04: Micro-Sculptures Give Metal The Velcro Touch

4/27/04: Self-Assembling Durable Nanocrystal Arrays

4/23/04: Getting Molecules To Do The Work

4/23/04: Is Cold Fusion Heating Up?

4/01/04: Quantum Computing Bit By Bit

3/30/04: New Kind Of Nanotube Transistor

3/29/04: Novel Carbon Nanoparticles With Vast Potential

3/22/04: Solar-Powered Molecular Motor

3/18/04: Breakthrough Internet Protocol

3/17/04: Electricity Controls Nanocrystal Shape

3/16/04: Atom Spouts Photons On Demand

3/12/04: Putting The Weirdness To Work

3/09/04: Charge Doping Of Molecules One Atom At A Time

3/08/04: Carbon Nanotubes Go Magnetic

3/05/04: Bubble fusion makes controversial return

3/05/04: Spin-Dependent Tunneling

3/05/04: Think Thin

3/03/04: Bubble Fusion

2/24/04: Spintronics Goes Organic

2/11/04: Chip Speed Breakthrough Will Alter Cyberworld

2/07/04: Virtual Nanotech

2/05/04: Nanotube Quantum Dot Doubles Up

2/02/04: 'Rule-breaking' Molecule Could Lead To Non-metal Magnets

1/30/04: Scientists Spy On Nanotube Growth

1/28/04: Plasma Prefers Semiconducting Nanotubes

1/26/04: Most Flexible Electronic Paper

12/31/03: Tiny Nanotube Antennas

12/17/03: Magnetism On The Move

12/12/03: Self-assembled 'Nanorings' Could Boost Computer Memory

11/20/03: Nano-Transistor Self-Assembles Using Biology

11/17/03: New Ways To Create Nano-Fibers

10/29/03: Instant Manufacturing

10/28/03: Nanoxerography Sets The Pattern

10/22/03: Nanowires Make Flexible Circuits

10/17/03: Predicting Nanophotonic Behavior

10/16/03: Power Behind Molecular Motors

10/03/03: Schrodinger's Cat Comes Closer

10/02/03: Nanotubes Harvest Electrons

10/02/03 Have Physicists Seen Magnetic Monopoles?

9/11/03: Thinking Outside The Box

9/05/08: The World's Smallest Buckets

9/03/03: Self-Assembly Technique Could Usher In Mass Production Of Nanotube Devices

8/29/03: Humanized Yeast

8/23/03: Molecular Manufacturing: Start Planning

8/14/03: Nanomaterials Triple Or Quadruple Life Of Brain Cells

8/11/03: 3-D Printing's Great Leap Forward

8/07/03: Cellophane And 3d Displays

8/05/03: Crossed Nanotubes Could Form A Quantum Dot

8/04/03: Cellular Reaction Processes From Ancient Life

8/02/03: Molecules Build A Bridge To Spintronics

8/01/03: Holographic Data Storage

7/31/03: Ground-Breaking Work In Understanding Of Time

7/29/03: Quantum Dots, Programmable Matter, And Wellstone

7/24/03: World's Smallest Motor Using Nanotubes And Etched Silicon

7/14/03: Tiny, Super-Tough Fibers Could be Revolutionary

6/19/03: Nanotube chip could hold 10 gigabits

6/13/03: "Color Filtering" At The Atomic Level

6/09/03: Exploring the 'Singularity'

6/03/03: Observing The "Wings" Of Atoms

5/30/03: A New Optical Geometric Phase

5/14/03: Hard And Tough Materials At The Nanoscale

5/08/03: Nanotube Memory Chips

5/04/03: Using Viruses As Building Blocks For New Technology

5/02/03: Carbon Nanotubes Light Up

5/01/03: Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change

4/30/03: Digital Cells

4/28/03: Nanotubes grown to wire chips

4/23/03: Silver Bits Channel Nano Light

4/16/03: Biological Quantum Dots Go Live

4/15/03: Nanocomputer Design Ditches Clock

4/14/03: LEDs vs. the Lightbulb

4/11/03: Laser Light May Fuel Nanomotors

4/05/03: Discovery Of Electrostatic Spin Topples Century-Old Theory

3/26/03: Tiny Particles Manipulated by Electric Field

3/12/03: Nanocomputing

3/08/03: Microfluidics

3/03/03: Control Electron Spin With Electrical Field

2/20/03: First 3-D Map Of Protein Universe

2/12/03: Manipulating Nanoparticles

2/04/03: Mutant Bacteria Become Microscopic Motors

2/03/03: Ultra-high-density Data Storage

2/01/03: Surfactant Curtails Nanotube Clumping In Water

1/28/03: Free-Electron Laser Improves Production of Carbon Nanotubes

1/24/03: Molecular Dots Rise For Information Storage

1/22/03: Inkjet Printing Creates Tubes Of Living Tissue

1/13/03: Nanosensor For Precision Chemical Analysis

1/08/03: 'Gadget Printer' Promises Industrial Revolution

1/02/03: Practical Quantum Computers Are Another Step Closer

12/18/02: Rat-Brained Robot

12/11/02: Breakthroughs Make Quantum Dots Shine As Beacon To The Human Body

12/03/02: Nano Diamonds Found in Crude Oil

12/02/02: Oxygen Makes Nanotube Memory

11/30/02: New Nano Capacity

11/26/02: Breakthrough Biological Method To Make Ultra-Small Structures

11/07/02: Researchers Propose Breakthrough Devices To Control The Motion Of Magnetic Fields

10/30/02: Switch Turns Microscopic Motor On And Off

10/27/02: The Simplest Pump

10/24/02: Physicists Flip A Qubit

10/22/02: Prototype Glass Sheet Computer Unveiled

10/08/02: Protons Are Not Round

10/08/02: Plastic Shows Promise For Spintronics, Magnetic Computer Memory

10/03/02: IBM Grows Nanotube Patterns On Silicon Wafers

10/01/02: Micro Gyroscope Puts A New Spin On Price

9/22/02: Earth's Magnetic Field 'Boosts Gravity'

9/12/02: NanoTech Nightmares?

9/09/02: HP Builds Molecular Memory With Unprecedented Density

8/22/02: Chip design aims for quantum leap

8/14/02: A new X-ray microscope sees clearer and deeper than ever before.

8/05/02: Atomic Anchors To Quicken Computer Boot-Up

6/20/02: Striking a Blow for Chip Tech

6/18/02: Light's Information-Carrying Capacity Doubles

6/12/02: Single-Atom Transistors

6/07/02: Writing Nanopatterns With DNA Inks

5/22/02: Will Gallium Nitride Revolutionize Electronics As It Has Optoelectronics?

5/22/02: The Next (Not So) Big Thing

5/21/02: The State of Nanotechnology

5/17/02: Semiconducting Material May Have The Right Stuff To Develop Spintronic Devices

5/13/02: BioFuture or MachineFuture?

5/09/02: Terahertz Laser Plugs Gap

5/03/02: Mutant Viruses Order Quantum Dots

4/29/02: "Exact Uncertainty" Brought To Quantum World

4/18/02: Nanotube Growth Direction Controlled

4/10/02: Programmable Chips

4/08/02: Nanotech's Super Models

3/29/02: Crystalline Materials Could Mean 3-D TV And Ultrafast Computers

3/26/02: Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity

3/14/02: Chips That See In Colour

3/07/02: Micro Fuel Cells Around The Corner

3/02: Augmented Reality

2/28/02: Major Advance in Nanomaterial Development

2/24/02: Flexible Transistors on a Roll

2/21/02: Powerful New Rechargeable Battery

2/15/02: Artificial Muscles Gain Strength

2/07/02: Striped Nanowires Shrink Electronics

1/30/02: Cow Kidney Grown from Cloned Embryo

1/22/02: Flexible Displays Gain Momentum

1/18/02: Robot Movie Stars

12/06/01: Controlling Electron Spin

10/01/: The Once and Future Nanomachine

7/05/01: The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine

4/16/01: A Map to Nowhere

2/03/01: What is Mass?

1/18/01: Transparent Supermaterial

12/17/00: Dip-Pen Nanolithography

11/29/00: Eyes Like A Hawk

11/19/00: Long Nanotube Ribbons

11/10/00: Nanotechnology and the Law of Accelerating Returns

11/27/00: Single Crystal Lasers

8/24/00: Molecular "Motor"Control

8/18/00: Tinier Electronics

8/12/00: Bent Nanowires

7/20/00: Tiny Robots Flex Their Plastic Muscles

7/08/00: Quantum Mirage

6/16/00: Nanoplotter With Parallel Writing Capabilities

6/08/00: Nature's Way Might Be Path to Smaller Computer Chips

5/31/00: Light Exceeds Its Own Speed Limit

5/8/00: Quantum Computing

5/08/00: Molecular Computing

4/27/00: Gene Therapy Restores 2 Babies

4/27/00:Cloned Cows Cells Stay Young

4/15//00: Quantum Life Force

3/30/00: Quantum Rods

3/23/00: Quantum Leap in Computing

3/02/00: New IBM Chip Process

3/23/00: Molecular Structure Used in Circuit System

6/22/05: Magnetic Nanoparticle Assembler

5/25/05: Marine Sponge Yields Nanoscale Secrets

5/16/05: New Technique Produces 10-carat Diamond

5/09/05: Motorola Builds Nanotube-Based Display

4/23/05: Nanomovies

4/07/05: The Smallest Electric Motor In The World

3/22/05: New Look For Nanomotors

3/10/05: Temperature Inside Collapsing Bubble Four Times That Of Sun

2/21/05: Single Molecule Switch Opens The Door To Biomolecular Electronics

2/11/05: New Twist On Spin Hall Effect

1/26/05: Magnetic Logic Becomes Practical

1/17/05: Transparent Electronics

1/06/05: Nanowires Form Atomic Switch

12/23/04: Quantum Properties Of Exotic Materials

12/15/04: Molecular Orbitals Come Into View

12/14/04: A Data 'Repair Kit' For Quantum Computers

12/09/04: Potential Ferroelectric Nanodisks and Nanorod Memory

12/02/04: World's Smallest Nanotube Transistor

11/22/04: Strong, Conductive Nanotube Yarns

11/06/04: Inkjet Printing Promises Cheaper Circuits

11/04/04: Coated Nanotubes Record Light

10/26/04: Mechanical Memories Take Off

10/22/04: Silicon Nanocrystals Made Easy

10/22/04: Two-Dimensional Fabric

10/18/04: World's Longest Electrically Conducting Nanotubes

10/13/04: A Realistic Laser-Operated Molecular Locomotive

10/08/04: Tiny Arm Shuttles Electrons In A New Transistor

10/05/04: U.S. Photomask Industry In Limbo

9/23/04: Superhard Nanotubes Created

9/17/04: Clock Synchronization With Entangled Photons

9/15/04: Self-Assembled Metal Rubber

9/03/04: Spintronics Breakthrough: Negative Resistance of a Single Magnetic Domain Wall Measured

8/20/04: Gravitational Anomalies During Solar Eclipses

7/29/04: Table-Top Synchrotron Defies Convention

7/26/04: Graphite Magnets Get Ready For Applications

7/23/04: A New Spin on Mobile Memory

7/22/04: Ultraviolet Powers Pixels

7/14/04: Teleport Lifts Quantum Computing

7/08/04: Diatomic Power

7/08/04: New Methods for Constructing Nanostructures

7/07/04: Paper Promises Better E-Paper

6/10/04: Pumping Energy To Nanocrystals From A Quantum Well

5/21/04: Nanotubes Switch Back And Forth

5/07/04 Wearable Wireless Displays Are In Sight

5/12/04: Quantum Trick May Multiply CD Capacity

4/30/04: Nanotube Transistors Speed Up

4/30/04: A Conveyor Belt For The Nano-age

4/23/04: Optical Quantum Memory

4/23/04: Stacked, Packed Nanowires Hold Triplexed Megadata

4/21/04: 50% Efficient Solar Cells

4/19/04: Ultra-Fast Laser Allows Efficient, Accessible Nanoscale Machining

3/31/04: Evolved DNA Stitches Itself Up

3/23/04: Ultra-Low Friction, Without Lubricants

3/18/04: Memories Are Harder To Forget Than Currently Thought

3/17/04: Rocket Fuel Boosts Speed Of Transistors

3/15/04: 'Nanograss' Turns Sticky to Slippery in an Instant

3/10/04: Multilevel Molecular Memory

3/07/04: Simulated proteins build nanostructures

3/05/04: Two-Photon 3D Lithography

3/05/04:Terahertz Magnetism From Non-Magnetic Materials

3/05/04: Holographic Optical Trapping

3/03/04: Sub-Wavelength Lensing

2/12/04: Nano-Origami

2/05/04: Scientists Embed Nanotubes In Hybrid Semiconductors

1/31/04: Nano Cameras Inside The Cell

1/30/04: Molecular Antenna To Harvest Light

1/28/04: Inkjet goes 3D

12/30/03: World's First Light Emitting Transistor

12/15/03: Industrial Production Of Cables, Sheets Of Pure Carbon Nanotubes

12/04/03: Nano Arrays Enable Terabit-Level Disks

11/21/03: Researchers Design And Build First Artificial Protein

11/18/03: Electron Spins Can Control Nuclear Spins

10/28/03: Print Yourself A Roll Of Semiconductors?

10/24/03: Terahertz Rays See Into The Nanoworld

10/20/03: Self-Assembled Nanocells Function As Non-volatile Memory

10/17/03: 'Quantum Confinement:' Size Matters

10/03/03: A Radiation Law May Never Be The Same

10/02/03: Full-Color Nanotube TV

10/01/03: Magnetic Logic Devices Move Closer

9/21/03: Single-molecule junction imaged

9/05/03: Nanotubes Surprise Again: Ideal Photon Emission

9/03/03: Entanglement Goes Macroscopic

8/23/03: When Flash becomes a memory

8/22/03: The Fantastic Use Of Atoms, One At A Time

8/21/03: Nanocrystals Nature's Way

8/13/03: 'Spintronics' Could Enable a New Generation Of Electronic Devices

8/05/03: Self Assembling Nano Devices

8/03/03: A Water Molecule's Chemical Formula is Really Not H20

7/31/03: Circuit Design Evolving In Distributed Digital World

7/29/03: Tunable 'Photon Copier' On A Chip

7/25/03: Punch 'Print' For Anything You Want

7/20/03: Picosecond X-ray Protein Movie

6/26/03: 3-D Assembly Of Magnetic And Semiconducting Nanoparticles

6/16/03: Wireless Sensor Chip The Size Of Glitter

6/12/03: Super-Strong Nanotube Threads Created

6/03/03: New Nanoscale Device Reveals Behavior Of Individual Electrons

5/30/03: Electroless Encapsulation Perks Up Nanotube Devices

5/19/03: Fundamental Step Toward Quantum Computing

5/13/03: How to Grab an Atom

5/06/03: Nano's Workhorse: The Quantum Dot

5/03/03: World's Smallest Solid-state Light Emitter

5/01/03: Carbon Nanowire

4/30/03: Six Technologies That Will Change the World

4/23/03 Unusually Long 'Buckytubes'

4/15/03: DNA Motor Keeps Cranking

4/13/03: Tiny Bubbles Are Key To Liquid-cooled System For Future Computers

4/09/03: Pushing the Speed Limit--For Researchers, the Internet Just Got Faster (8.6 gigabits/second)

4/02/03: The Future of Nanotechnology, by K. Eric Drexler

3/19/03: The Sharpest Ever Optical Image Of Molecular Vibrations

3/10/03: Quantum Time

3/04/03: The Human/Machine Merger

2/21/03: Novel Nano Building Blocks

2/15/03: NanoLights! Camera! Action!

2/06/03: Nanocontacts for Terabit Hard Drives

2/04/03: Detailed, Optical Observation Of Single Molecules In Their Natural State

2/02/03: A Brighter, More Colorful Future For LEDs?

1/27/03: Electrical Control Of Electron Spin Steers Spin-based Technologies Toward Real World

1/17/03: Terabit Storage Device

1/10/03: Nanotubes Toughen Up Ceramics

1/02/03: Breakthrough Brings Laser Light To New Regions Of The Spectrum

12/20/02: Quantum-Dot LED May Be Future Screen Of Choice

12/13/02: Big Step Toward Molecular Electronics

12/05/02: Fractals Add New Dimension To Study Of Tiny Electronics

12/02/02: Optical Spectra Of Carbon Nanotubes

11/30/02: First Quantum Dots Applied To Living Organism

11/29/02: Molecule Stores Picture

11/10/02: Human Cells Inspire Mini-Robot Makers

11/08/02: Scientists Use Microscope To View Magnetism At Atomic Level

10/31/02: Experiment Could Reveal "Extra Dimensions," Exotic Forces

10/28/02: Light-Emitting Silicon Shines Much Brighter in New Invention

10/26/02: Made-To-Order Nanotubes

10/25/02: World's Smallest Operating Computing Circuits

10/23/02: Thread Spun From Pure Carbon Nanotubes

10/08/02: Students make nanotech breakthrough

10/08/02: Quantum Conversion of Heat to Electricity

10/03/02: Can Nanotubes Be Engineered to Superconduct?

9/25/02: Computer Predicts Protein's Shape From Sequence Alone

9/12/02: Nano Self-Assembly For Semiconductor Industry Future

8/28/02: "Frustrated Magnets" Hint At Broader Organizing Principle In Nature

8/15/02: Lasers and lenses give a new sort of quantum computer a big leg-up

8/13/02: Nanometer-Scale Light Source Is First To Show Single-Molecule Electroluminescence

6/19/02: Fast, Inexpensive Organic Memory Device
6/18/02: New Cellular Evolution Theory Rejects Darwinian Assumptions

6/11/02: IBM Puts New Spin On Nano-Storage

5/22/02: Forklifts for Nanoconstruction

5/21/02: French Researchers Take Step Toward Quantum Computing

5/20/02: IBM Creates Nanotube Transistors

5/14/02: Spintronics

5/10/02: Light and a Single Molecule Combine to Make a Machine

5/06/02: Smallest Living Organism Is A Very Big Discovery

5/03/02: Bell Labs breaks through on Moore's Law

5/02/02: Super-Fast Flashes Could Help Scientists See Into A Nucleus

4/19/02: Molecules Take Electronics For A Spin

4/12/02: Microscopes Move To Smaller Scales

4/09/02: Thinner Materials Improve Flexible Solar Cells, Flat Panel Displays

4/04/02: The Inconstant Constant

3/27/02: Magnetism In One-Dimensional Monatomic ChaOf Metal Atoms

3/14/02: The Engines of Lilliput

3/07/02: Exotic Properties Of "Quantum Magnets" Attract Physicists

3/04/02: Wireless Wonderland of the Future

3/01/02: MIT researchers design robots to automate tiny tasks.

3/01/02: Phase Change Materials

2/21/02: Antimatter atoms captured for the first time

2/16/02: In search of extra dimensions

2/04/02: The Increase in Chip Speed Is Accelerating, Not Slowing

2/02/02: Towards the Single Molecule Transistor

1/30/02: Carbon Nanotubes to Improve Solar Cells

1/23/02: Ultimate stem cell discovered

1/17/02: Quantum Gravity Test

1/04/02: Nanotech Fine-Tuning

8/27/01: Power Plant On A Chip

4/26/01: Domestication and DNA

3/12/01: Semiconducting "Nanobelts"

1/31/01: Nanoclusters

12/26/00: Single-File Photons

11/29/00: Electron Fragments

11/28/00: Biomolecular Motors

11/13/00: Electricity-Conducting Fabric

9/27/00: Entangled Photon Computing

8/25/00: Molecular Computer Progress

8/23/00: Tiny Bearings and Springs

8/14/00: Splitting the Electron

7/26/00: Single-Atom Blinking

7/01/00: Jet Set Displays

6/24/00: Global Brain

6/05/00: New Versions of Ethernet Promise Swift Improvements in Communications

5/13/00: A droid for all seasons

5/05/00: Functioning Nanostructures Self-Assemble Out Of Ink

5/03/00: Magnetic Actuation Folds Micro-Parts Into 3-D Structures

5/1/00: The Future of Fuel: Micro Fuel Cells

4/26/00 :Atomic-Sized Carbon Nanotubes Show Promising Tunable Structure

4/06/00: Opto-Chip for Infinite Bandwidth

3/23/00: Molecular Structure Used in Circuit System

3/21/00: New Class Of Composite Materials With "Reversed" Physical Properties Never Before Seen

2/26/00: Random Reality