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SEMATECH today announced that Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (Nasdaq: CCMP), the world's leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries and a growing CMP pad suppl...

As an asteroid roughly half as large as a football field -- and with energy equal to a large hydrogen bomb -- readies for a fly-by of Earth on Friday, two California scientists are unveiling their pro...

In a sweeping review of the field of bio-inspired engineering and biomimicry in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science, two engineers at the University of California, San Diego, identify three chara...

Utilizing optical characteristics first demonstrated by the ancient Romans, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a novel, ultra-sensitive tool for chemical, DNA,...

Recently a Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.

The World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has released what it calls the "10 most promising technology trends that can help deliver sustainable growth in future decades,...

Analytical Pixels Technology (APIX) today announced the release of its first commercial product: GCAPTM, a gas chromatography device designed for a variety of industrial and petrochemical applications...

At the end of next month, hundreds of museums, science centers, and university research centers across the United States will be hosting events to help children and adults explore the tiny world of at...

A new type of nanoscale engine has been proposed that would use quantum dots to generate electricity from waste heat, potentially making microcircuits more efficient. The engines would be microscopic...

University of Utah engineers demonstrated it is feasible to build the first organic materials that conduct electricity on their edges, but act as an insulator inside. These materials, called organic t...

First ever detailed Raman spectroscopy study on triple-walled carbon nanotubes reveals important new information.

New structure could come in handy for all-oxide electronics.

The asteroid making an extremely close pass of Earth this week could be worth up to $195 billion in metals and propellant, if it were in a different orbit, Deep Space Industries (DSI) announced today...

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is used to help with the characterization of polymeric nanoparticles synthesized as drug carrier systems. This work is being carried out a...

Researchers at USC have developed a new lithium-ion battery design that uses porous silicon nanoparticles in place of the traditional graphite anodes to provide superior performance.

Materials engineers from Islamic Azad University in Iran obtained the optimum conditions of strength in the geopolymers which are made of waste materials such as rice paddy ash and furnace ash by stud...

Wireless communications and optical computing could soon get a significant boost in speed, thanks to "slow light" and specialized metamaterials through which it travels.

NANOTEC of Thailand signed collaborative Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI) of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) on January 28, 2...

Scientists at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now been able to identify the grass pollen molecule, against which the allergic response of hay fever in children is initiated. In addition,...

The new study published in Cancer Discovery, the flagship journal of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), involving three Spanish and six American research centres, presents significant...