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Nano-Scale LEDs Toast Lasers When It Comes To Data Transfer

When it comes to transferring huge amounts of data in the fastest possible time, copper sucks. What you need to use is light. Until now that meant lasers — but nano-scale LEDs can do it with a fraction of the energy.

October 26, 2011
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Nanotube-Infused Artificial Skin For Robots And People Alike

Man and machine might not be that different in the future — especially if they share the same synthetic skin being developed at Stanford University.

October 15, 2011
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Scientists Have Used Carbon Nanotubes To Engineer The Most Powerful Artificial Muscles Ever

Will the wonders of carbon nanotubes never cease? Engineers have now used everyone’s favourite cylindrical ubermolecules to create artificial muscles that can contract and twist, in a manner not unlike like the muscles found in elephant trunks and squid tentacles. The upshot? Researchers say these tiny little motors could soon be used to propel microscopic nanobots throughout your bloodstream.

October 4, 2011
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Nanorockets For Precision Bombing Human Disease

German researchers have invented a platinum and peroxide-fuelled “nanorocket” that could propel through your blood, saliva or urine to deliver medicine precisely where disease is happening.

September 6, 2011
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World’s Smallest Electric Motor Is Made From A Single Molecule

How silly of us all to never realise that the butyl methyl sulfide molecule is not a liquid, but a motor. Thankfully, some clearheaded chemists at Tufts University were able to make us see this compound’s true nature.

August 12, 2011
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Anti-Nanotechnology Terrorists Are Bombing Professors

Of all the things people could go terrorist for — oppressive governments, etc — there’s a group that chose anti-nanotechnology. I wish I was kidding. They call themselves the “Individuals Tending to Savagery” and have attacked two professors in Mexico with bombs.

July 31, 2011
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Nanodelivery Patches Get Your Synthetic Boner On

Man’s eternal quest for faster and ever-more efficient ways to shoot blood into his penis has taken a step into the 21st century. We’re now using nanotechnology to churn out our boners, thanks to an Egyptian-made transdermal patch.

June 21, 2011
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MIT’s New Nanoparticles Tag Team Cancer Cells

There are a ton of impressive applications of nanoparticles in medicine, especially cancer treatment, but MIT’s new take on the process is pretty awesome. It uses two kinds of particles to do the job: one to find the tumors, the other to kick their arse.

June 7, 2011
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Aussie Scientists Use Nanotechnology To Detect ‘Unreadable’ Prints

Researchers at the University of Technology in Sydney have announced an major breakthrough in the field of forensic science that may help resolve countless decades-old cold cases by lifting prints off virtually any surface.

May 12, 2011
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New Nanosensor Sniffs Bombs, One Molecule At A Time

Imagine a piece of metal 30,000 times thinner than one of the hairs on your head. Mixed with a little protein from bee venom, that microscopic filament becomes the most powerful explosives-detection system in history, able to detect a single molecule of dangerous chemicals.

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