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Using light to move and trap DNA molecules
(06 Jan 2009)
A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible portable, fast-acting detectors for disease organisms or ...
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Cornell scientists find key to riddle of vitamin B1 biosynthesis: 'Like solving a Rubik's cube'
(21 Nov 2008)
A key enzyme in the biosynthesis of vitamin B1 has somehow evolved the ability to perform a complex series of some 15 to 20 steps, report two Cornell chemists. Understanding the function of the enzyme, known as HMP-P synthase, is like solving a ...
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CU scientists create world's thinnest balloon: Just one atom thick
(22 Sep 2008)
Using a lump of graphite, a piece of Scotch tape and a silicon wafer, Cornell researchers have created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick - but strong enough to contain gases under several atmospheres of pressure without popping. And ...
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Cornell's Stroock lab creates first synthetic tree
(12 Sep 2008)
World's first synthetic tree is no giant redwood, but may lead to technologies for heat transfer, soil remediation
In Abraham Stroock's lab at Cornell, the world's first synthetic tree sits in a palm-sized piece of clear, flexible hydrogel - the type found in soft contact lenses. Stroock and graduate student Tobias Wheeler have created a "tree" that simulates ...
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Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors
(29 Aug 2008)
Findings may point to new materials to get the current flowing at higher temperatures
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, have uncovered the first ...
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First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety, rich with patterns
(29 Apr 2008)
A handful of soil is a lot like a banana, strawberry and apple smoothie: Blended all together, it is hard to tell what's in there, especially if you have never tasted the fruits before. But when you look at soil's organic carbon closely, it has an ...
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$6 million research lab will produce ethanol and other biofuels from grasses and biomass
(10 Mar 2008)
A former agricultural engineering, power and machinery lab at Cornell is being gutted to make way for a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Lab that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into ethanol and other biofuels and will occupy the ...
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By color-coding atoms, new Cornell electron microscope promises big advance in materials analysis
(25 Feb 2008)
A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living ...
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In search of wine, ancient Meso-Americans found chocolate, 500 years earlier than once thought
(16 Nov 2007)
The human love affair with chocolate is at least 3,000 years old - and it began at least 500 years earlier than previously thought, according to new analyses of pottery shards from the Ulúa Valley region of northern Honduras. But the first people to ...
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Side-to-side shaking of nanoresonators throws off impurities
(08 Aug 2007)
Tiny vibrating silicon resonators are of intense interest in nanotechnology circles for their potential ability to detect bacteria, viruses, DNA and other biological molecules. Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to make these resonators ...
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