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From pacemakers to artificial hips, people are getting more familiar with new technology placed in their bodies, but imbedding microchips still raises many privacy concerns.
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The path for cheap solar energy has been paved, but we can't walk it just yet.
Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a liquid solar cell which they say can essentially be printed onto surfaces of any shape.
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To provide a simpler, lower-cost method of ascertaining the safety of large structures, researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland developed a high-tech paint capable of detecting microscopic manufacturing defects and stress flaws.
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Rice University scientists announced finding a new way to attach organic molecules to graphene, a dense, ultra-strong, two-dimensional carbon sheet, expanding the uses for the "miracle material" into fields of organic chemistry, optics and electronics.
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Diagnosing in remote settings, anywhere in the world, might soon be easier and cheaper, with an accurate lab-on-a-chip (LOC) that integrates several blood tests and costs about $1, developed at Columbia Engineering, an article in Nature Medicine reported.
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Some advertisers turn to giant billboards to get their message across, but as part of their latest ad campaign, Gillette has decided to go much smaller: microscopic, in fact.
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Wars are often won by technology. The working methodology for global terrorism has been explosives. A new breakthrough in nanotechnology could see the end of the bombs and the bloodshed.
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What is the clothing of the future? How about a gym shirt that can monitor heart rate, analyze sweat loss and keep you at an optimal temperature? Or, a pair of pants that charges your cellphone when placed in your pocket? This technology is available now.
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The exciting one-atom thick super material can now be produced in ample quantities and high quality. Rapid improvements in nanotechnology are now expected.
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Using a unique laser spinning technology, researchers have produced nanofibers made of the bioactive glass used for regenerating bone. According to the scientists, their method allows the manufacture of new, otherwise impossible nanofiber compositions.
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Graphene Micrograph: This ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy image shows a point defect in graphene that was epitaxially grown (crystalline overlayer grown in registry with crystalline substrate) on 6H-SiC(0001) (Nathan Guisinger, EMMD Group) at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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