Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, David Marchal Everyone wants to cure cancer. Researchers at Stanford University are using carbon nanotubes to punch holes in tumor cells. Talk about targeted drug...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Sebastian Vera I love how Rain-X makes improves the visibility of a car windshield in the rain. Water just beads up and roll off the windshield. Thanks to...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Sergei Chumakov Have you heard of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies? This project was established in April 2005 as a partnership between the Woodrow Wilson...
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How cool does that sound? Researcher Steven Novack with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory led the team that developed this material that could draw away heat and collect...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Scott Hirko Have you ever needed an MRI? Traditionally, gadolinium or GAD is used as a contrast agent during an MRI. This is quite different from the iodine-based...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Maxime Gauvin Have you ever wondered how those invisible threads made by spiders can be so strong? Spiders have an amazing ability to create super-strong webs. Well,...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Chris Fertnig Since I studied mechanical engineering at MIT, this subject hits close to home for me. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (asme) released a...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Geoffrey Holman Do you know how much an atom weighs? A nano-pound? Maybe a nano-ounce? Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have come up with a way to...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Paulo Ferreira The Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics was a spectacular display of "human art." So much has been made possible thanks to...
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Many effective drugs never enter the market because of Toxicity and safety issues. An old cancer drug called TNP-470 was being researched in 1990, but clinical studies were stopped when neurologic...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Paul Mckeown Nanotechnology researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a one-step, repeatable way to produce nanoscale patterns using a single master...
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The future of capsule endoscopy may be in miniature robotic arms that can take biopsies and perform therapeutic functions. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed this capsule that...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Britt McTammany LED or light-emitting diode flashlights are getting more and more popular these days. One of the main reasons is because the bulbs practically never burn...
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