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...

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.

Drive advance fuels terabyte era

"A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi. The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to two thousands times smaller than the...

Disk technology takes Nobel Prize

"French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics. They discovered the phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance", in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences in electrical resistance. This knowledge has allowed...