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Brazil Announces Funding for a Second Round of Multidisciplinary Research Centers 29 May 2013 | 12:29 am
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) has launched a second round of Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) in Brazil. The 17 new, multidisciplinary centers will receive a total o...
National Research Council Revamp Fuels David Suzuki’s Claims of a Conservative ‘War on Science’ 29 May 2013 | 12:25 am
The Conference Board recently graded Canada on its innovation performance. We got a D, coming in 13th out of 16 peer countries. Apparently, we are producing some new and improved products but are bein...
A New Environment for Testing Nanomaterials 28 May 2013 | 09:00 am
To help researchers test for toxic effects of nanomaterials in the body, researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a tissue-like experimental environment that...
South Africa Capitalizes on Growing Hydrogen and Fuel-cell Market 24 May 2013 | 07:03 pm
The Republic of South Africa possesses 75% of known platinum group metal (PGM) reserves, and these metals are key catalytic materials used in most fuel cells. While mining and exporting raw PGM will g...
Autonomous Plasmonic Solar Water Splitter Displays Long-term Stability 24 May 2013 | 06:56 pm
Recently, M. Moskovits and a team of researchers from the University of California–Santa Barbara, fabricated an autonomous solar water-splitting device in which all charge carriers derive from surface...
Shape Affects Success in DNA Nanoparticle Therapy 24 May 2013 | 06:48 pm
The shapes of nanoparticles can play important roles in determining their uptake by cells, and in vivo transport in biomedical applications and gene therapy. Providing a means of regulating the transf...
Filming Phonons 24 May 2013 | 12:45 am
This 3D shape is actually a still from a billion-frames-a-second film made at University College London, UK. There, Jesse Clark's team has been working on 3D imaging of gold nanocrystals. The latest w...
'Quantum Microscope' Peers into the Hydrogen Atom 24 May 2013 | 12:31 am
The first direct observation of the orbital structure of an excited hydrogen atom has been made by an international team of researchers. The observation was made using a newly developed "quantum micro...
Sequester's 5% Cut Rolls Through Biomedical Labs 24 May 2013 | 12:12 am
Given that sequestration lopped off a staggering $1.55 billion from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget this year, it shouldn't be hard to find examples of how the cut is harming resear...
3-D Printer Helps Save Dying Baby 23 May 2013 | 10:13 pm
An experimental pulmonary splint made of polycaprolactone by 3-D printing enabled a baby to breath normally again, saving his life. A university of Michigan professor of biomedical and mechanical engi...
