http://www.ccnmag.com Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:57:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/new_nanoscale_process_to_help_computers_run_faster Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. CalTechNews Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:41:46 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/nano-sized_cargo_ships_that_destroy_tumors Scientists have developed nanometer-sized ‘cargo ships’ that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body’s immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors. CalTechNews Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:46:47 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/invisibility_cloak_closer_new_materials_bend_light_backwards Scientists have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render objects invisible. CalTechNews Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:32:55 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/tingy_tags_to_help_solve_gun_crimes Criminals who use firearms may find it much harder to evade justice in future, thanks to an ingenious new bullet tagging technology. CalTechNews Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:50:38 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/new_states_of_electrons_that_behave_like_light_discovered_2 A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light. CalTechNews Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:06:17 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/material_to_turn_auto_heat_into_electricity_ Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. CalTechNews Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:37:59 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/low-cost,_bright_led_lighting_closer_to_reality Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. CalTechNews Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:02:35 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/using_magnetic_nanoparticles_to_combat_cancer Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. CalTechNews Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:21:15 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/physicists_tweak_quantum_force,_reducing_barrier_to_tiny_devices Cymbals don’t clash of their own accord – in our world, anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed almost infinitesimally close together, spontaneously attract each other. CalTechNews Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:35:20 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/computers_memories_that_don_t_forget HP has announced that researchers from HP Labs, the company’s central research facility, have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. CalTechNews Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:44:28 +0100