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Smart pump helps to deliver medicine
An advanced micro-pump helps to transfer a very small amount of solution - like medicine - a precise and flexible. Flexible compounds and electrical control mechanisms e…
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Optical memory - from nanolaser to 1 Tbit / inch2
Researchers in the United States have just succeeded in creating a nanolaser device that converges a beam of light with a power of 200 nW into a small spot less than 35…
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Smart clothes track wearer's health
Clothing that can measure the wearer's body temperature or track the heart's activity has just appeared on the market, but Europe's BIOTEX project hopes to bring new fun…
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Nano cubes bring better shaped crystals
Scientists in the United States have developed a new way to control the shape of metallic nanocrystals by using a small element of another metal such as a 'seed' and cha…
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New sensors serve medicine and military
US scientists are developing a type of sensor that is smaller than rice grain, has a very high sensitivity, can be widely used in medicine and military.
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Newly sensitive magnetic sensors allow for easier brain research
American physicists have developed a very handy device with enough sensitivity to record magnetic fields from electrical signals in the brain. With a small cell covered…
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New record of electron diffraction
Materials science researchers in the UK and Germany have developed a new electron microscopy technique that enables the creation of electron diffraction images from a ma…
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Use quantum dots as a single electron emission source at will
The study, published in the journal Science, has shown that small regions in semiconductors called quantum dots can allow electron emission in the nanosecond time scale…
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Unexpected properties of high-temperature superconductors
Areas with small and isolated superconductivity exist within these substances at temperatures higher than previously known temperatures, according to a study by Princeto…
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Successfully manufactured the smallest organic light emitting device
To make the nano world brighter, a group of interdisciplinary researchers have produced extremely small nanoparticles - light-emitting nanofibers of a size
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The lock is as small as a molecule
Israeli chemists have successfully fabricated a key-sized lock of a single molecule. This lock only works when it is exposed to a string of ciphers consisting of chemica…
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Unique scientific inventions
Used for many different purposes, the unique scientific inventions below are contributing to changing our lives.
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The invention came from randomness
There have been many scientific inventions stemming from mistakes and absentmindedness, like Achimedes' law and many breakthrough inventions in human history that have b…
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Inventions from 1800 to 1849
The inventions of small pinwheels, how to keep food from being spoiled, safety lamps for mines, ... until big inventions are locomotives, typewriters, ... by the scienti…
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Computer made from bacteria
According to the research team at Leeds University (UK) and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan), when digesting iron, iron-eating bacteria create tiny…