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Gold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies

Nano Rush? A gold nanostructure tethered together with DNA could report information about changes at a cellular level. iStockphoto Gold is valuable to many in copious quantities, but for a team of...

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Precision Nanoscale Car Parts Self-Assembled From DNA

Nano Origami courtesy Hendrik Dietz In the macro world, the construction shapes available to us are numerous, and the tools to build them are straightforward. But nanoarchitecture has always been much...

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Nanoresonators Form Super-High-Resolution Display, With Pixels Eight Times...

It's Only Blurry Because It's Magnified The world's smallest University of Michigan logo, magnified thousands of times. University of Michigan News Service Nano-thin sheets of metal can be used to...

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Video: MIT Engineers Design Fog-Free, Water-Repellent, Anti-Glare Glass

Perfect Bead Blue-dyed water droplets sitting on a transparent nanotaper surface (left) and on flat glass (right), each placed on top of printed black letters. The insets are top views of the same two...

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Tiny Layered Materials Make Ultra-Light Bulletproof Armor

Bulletproof This is an electron-microscope image of a cross-section of a layered polymer designed to withstand a speeding bullet. The crater was caused by an impacting glass bead, and the previously...

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Gold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies

Gold is valuable to many in copious quantities, but for a team of Duke University scientists, a sub-cellular amount was all that was needed to create a nanostructure which…

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Precision Nanoscale Car Parts Self-Assembled From DNA

In the macro world, the construction shapes available to us are numerous, and the tools to build them are straightforward. But nanoarchitecture has always been much more…

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Nanoresonators Form Super-High-Resolution Display, With Pixels Eight Times...

Nano-thin sheets of metal can be used to build a tiny high-definition display, according to University of Michigan researchers. They built a 9-micron-high image of their logo to prove it. The pixels...

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Video: MIT Engineers Design Fog-Free, Water-Repellent, Anti-Glare Glass

A new type of nano-structured glass can bounce water and dirt off its surface, cleaning itself and preventing fogging, according to MIT researchers. It eliminates glare, too, allowing light to...

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Tiny Layered Materials Make Ultra-Light Bulletproof Armor

Making better body armor doesn't have to be about adding bulk--it's about smart layering. A new composite material, made of tiny alternating layers a few nanometers thick,…

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Frosty Gullies On Mars, Graphene Kirigami, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

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Gold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies

Science Scientists use genetic material to develop gold nanostructures that could report on a cell’s inner workings in real time Gold is valuable to many in copious quantities, but for a team of Duke...

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Precision Nanoscale Car Parts Self-Assembled From DNA

Science Scientists program DNA to fold in tightly controlled curves and circles—an important step toward building larger nanomachines. In the macro world, the construction shapes available to us are...

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Nanoresonators Form Super-High-Resolution Display, With Pixels Eight Times...

Gadgets Nano-thin sheets of metal can be used to build a tiny high-definition display, according to University of Michigan researchers. They built a 9-micron-high image of their logo… Nano-thin sheets...

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Video: MIT Engineers Design Fog-Free, Water-Repellent, Anti-Glare Glass

Technology A new type of nano-structured glass can bounce water and dirt off its surface, cleaning itself and preventing fogging, according to MIT researchers. It eliminates glare, too,… A new type of...

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Tiny Layered Materials Make Ultra-Light Bulletproof Armor

Technology The key is alternating layers made from materials with different abilities. Making better body armor doesn't have to be about adding bulk--it's about smart layering. A new composite...

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Frosty Gullies On Mars, Graphene Kirigami, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

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Black widow spiders could teach nanomaterial experts a thing or two

Science Scientists are finally unspooling how spider silk works. Black widow silk fluid features nano-sized structures, researchers have found.

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