Positive Steps To Boost World Innovation

Malaysia is taking positive steps to boost world innovation.It plans to hold annual World Innovation Forum to promote and foster "Innovation by all for the benefit of all".This follows the successful hosting of the inaugural World Innovation Forum Kuala Lumpur (WIF-KL) 2012...

Seven-atom-large transistor developed

Scientists have created a transistor in a computer chip that is 10 times smaller than those commonly in use now, marking the start of a new age of super-fast, super-powerful computing. At the heart of the...

IBM scientists image the anatomy of a molecule for first time

While research labs around the world cut back,  IBM continues to remain committed to R&D, even in areas that may not pay back for 10 to 15 years. There is no better example of this then the...

Can Human Blood energize iPods and Cellphones?

this story intrigued meas how a body reaction and movement can generate electricity." This can be a possibility as the this body movement, beating of a human heart or simply the blood flow can be converted into electricity using nanowires made up of zinc oxide. Zinc-oxide...

Future planes, cars may be made of 'buckypaper'

Have you always wanted to ride in a paper airplane? In the future, computers, TVs, cars and planes may be made from "buckypaper";  a nanotube-based material that's stronger than steel and possibly...

Innovation leading to self

" " In a breakthrough study, European physicists have developed a unique computer circuit that can build itself - a development that can lead to self-assembling computers. Scientists took a long organic molecule with mobile electrons, called quinquethiophene that acts...

Nanocoating to Protect Beehives

" " The problem? Bee colonies are dying, and have been decimated by 30 - 40 % since 2006 by what is called 'colony collapse disorder', threatening crops both in the United States and around the world. Industrial Nanotech, Inc. announced the launch of new patented...

Small science - big questions! -nanotechnology toxins

The Royal Society of London has stated that nanotechnology chemicals should be defined as new chemicals, because they cannot be compared with the chemicals they are derived from. Nanotechnology toxins are abundant in Personal Care products, which is largely an unregulated...

Green News - 7/31/08

New Toy Safety Law Will Likely Become Law - As reported by the Chicago Tribune, it would "require manufacturers and importers to subject toys and other nursery products to strict safety tests before they hit store shelves." Secondly, "the legislation would phase in a near-ban...

Nano Bio-Chip Detects Heart Attacks Using Saliva

A new nano-biochip tht can analyze a few drops of saliva could possiblyhelp give early diagnosis of a heart attack, report researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jostling shirt fabric may power iPods and such

With this technology, a pair of young lovers embracing on a cliff during a romantic windstorm could power the dead car battery that stranded them there in the first place."BOSTON (AP) — Someday, your shirt might...

Nanoscale Thin Film Polymer Drug Delivery for Diabetes, Cancer

Nanotech from MIT lab- implantable "patch" for releasing drugs, only 150 nanometers thick.

Nanotube for Transistor Radio Shows

Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world's first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it. The nanotube radios, in which nanotube devices provide...

Breakthrough! 40-Hour Laptop Batteries about to storm markets

Imagine running your laptop nonstop from New York to Tokyo -- crunch some numbers, work on a memo pop in a few DVDs-- and then do a full day of meetings, using your machine throughout the day and into the night. Imagine doing all this without ever plugging in your computer to...

Bible is written on an area the size of a pin head

Small can be beautiful, although the project itself, writing the bible on the head of pin is of limited commercial value (ebay perhaps) it does demonstrate what modern nanotechnology can accomplish. The article...

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