Testing for Disease, for Under a Penny, Using Bits of Paper
While other scientists successfully shrank beakers, tubes and centrifuges into diagnostic laboratories that fit into aluminum boxes that cost $50,000, George Whitesides had smaller dreams.
BIG DEAL A nonprofit company produces diagnostic [...]
Tiny spy planes could mimic birds, insects
Development of biology-inspired drones funded by Pentagon. You’ll never look at hummingbirds the same again. The Pentagon is pouring millions of dollars into the development of tiny drones inspired by biology, each equipped with video and [...]
Nano tool inspired by silk moth antenna could aid Alzheimer’s research
The silk moth’s antenna has inspired researchers from the University of Michigan to develop a better nanotechnology tool that could help understand a class of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s.
Nanopores-essentially [...]
Chennai & Doon Students develop robots
Chennai students create robot to monitor underwater seismic activities. Doon student creates robot having emotional intelligence
Chennai students create robot to monitor underwater seismic activities.
University students in Chennai have created [...]
E-Skin: Nanotechnology’s Artificial Skin Breakthrough
Artificial skin, dubbed “e-skin” by UC Berkeley researchers, is the first such material made out of inorganic single crystalline semiconductors.
It’s a pressure-sensitive electronic material made from semiconductor nanowires [...]
Cellulosic Methanol Produced From First Commercial Cellulosic Biofuels Plant
Range Fuels, Inc. has announced that it has produced cellulosic methanol from the initial phase of its first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia using non-food biomass.
The first phase of the Soperton Plant operations [...]
Soon, a car for visually challenged drivers
Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality.
The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle next year equipped with technology that helps [...]
Indian Scientists at MIT develop NETRA – The Eye Testing Tool
Now time has come not to step in any eye clinic for a simple test. Thanks to Indian professors of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge.
Indian origin scientists, Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar and postdoctoral research [...]
Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns
Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells — a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy [...]
Brit scientist infects himself with computer virus
Dr Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading, has become the first human to be infected with a computer virus.
Gasson has had a computer chip implanted in his hand which is programmed to open security doors to his lab. [...]
