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Jan 21, 2013 06:03 PM EST

Molecular Nanotech Machine Built That Can Create New Molecules

Scientists managed to build a molecular machine which works in a similar fashion as the ribosome in cells, which they attempted to copy. The team of the University of Manchester described the development of the highly complex machine, which can assemble molecules in a similar ways as the ribosome, i...

Jan 18, 2013 04:15 PM EST

Optimized Quantum Teleportation Protocol More 'Fuel Efficient'

Quantum teleportation is possibly becoming more efficient! Mathematicians worked out a paper titled "Generalized Teleportation and Entanglement Recycling", in which they propose a new, more efficient protocol for teleportation which allows for a wide variety of potential applications in quantum phys...

Jan 18, 2013 11:22 AM EST

Scientists Made Superomniphobic Material That Even Repels Blood

Scientists have developed a so-called "superomniphobic" surface that allows for the production of absolutely stain-proof, spill-proof clothing, protective garments, and other products that shrug off virtually every liquid - from blood and ketchup to concentrated acids.

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Jan 17, 2013 02:25 PM EST

Nanotech Tool: Electron Beam Used to Trap Gold Nanoparticles

By using an electron beam, researchers from Berkeley Lab and the National University of Singapore have developed a way to manipulate nanoparticles.

Jan 16, 2013 05:29 PM EST

LHC to go Beyond Specifications With Lead-Proton Collisions

Just one month before a two-year maintenance shut down of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a team of scientists prepares to go beyond the design specification of the world's largest particle accelerator and collide protons with heavy lead ions.

Jan 16, 2013 11:35 AM EST

Latest Reports from the CERN Antimatter Experiments

Two weeks into 2013, it was reporting time for the antimatter research teams working at CERN, who presented key results of their experiments in 2012, and plans for the New Year.

Jan 15, 2013 12:10 PM EST

Quantum Computers: Proteins Assemble Crucial Nanodiamond Array

Biological self-assembly of nanodiamond arrays have been proposed and experimentally implemented for the first time by a team of researchers around Prof. Martin Plenio at Ulm University, Germany.

Jan 11, 2013 08:32 PM EST

Korea signs up PPPL to help develop future K-DEMO fusion reactor

Several of the partner countries that are currently building the international experimental fusion reactor ITER, including the EU, China, Japan and India are already contemplating their own demonstration facilities as the next step toward commercial fusion power. Korea is also doing so with K-DEMO, ...

Jan 10, 2013 07:40 PM EST

US ITER fusion researchers working on plasma disruption mitigation

ITER, the world's first reactor-scale fusion machine, will have a plasma volume more than 10 times that of the next largest tokamak, JET. Which also means that problems in controlling the inherently unstable, super-heated plasma are 10 times more delicate.

Jan 10, 2013 05:03 PM EST

Dark Energy Alternatives to Einstein Are Running Out of Room

Research by University of Arizona astronomy professor Rodger Thompson finds that a popular alternative to Albert Einstein's theory for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe does not fit newly obtained data on a fundamental constant, the proton to electron mass ratio.

Jan 09, 2013 03:02 PM EST

Scientists combine synthetic and biological nanoparticles to produce new metamaterials

Aalto University scientists have organized synthetic and biological building blocks in a single structure - combining virus particles (and other protein cages) with inorganic nanoparticles to form crystalline layer structures, or superlattices.

Jan 05, 2013 02:35 PM EST

International Space Station gearing up for scientific results in 2013

While it was a success in itself to construct the $100 billion space station ISS, and to keep it manned consistently since over a decade now, the on-board laboratories and experimental capabilities are underutilized and didn't yield abundant results until now. Only 72 percent of NASA's science rack...