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Nanoparticle Developed To Locate, Destroy Cancer Cells. Popular Science (12/15, Dillow) reports, "Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine" have been developing "a single nanoparticle that can seek out cancer cells, tag them with fluorescent dye, and kill them, all while physicians look on via real-time MRI tracking." The treatment combines several factors, using nanoshells..

Naval Research Lab Says Hydrogen-Powered UAV Flew For Over 26 Hours. Cleantech (12/1, Sibley) reports that, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, "an unmanned air vehicle (UAV)" named Ion Tiger, "which runs on hydrogen-powered fuel cells, recently set an unofficial flight endurance record-taking to the sky for 26 hours and one minute." The vehicle has "the ability to carry a four- to..

New Batteries Made From Paper, Nanotube Ink. In a story on the New York Times (12/9, Mandel) website Greenwire reports, "Ordinary office paper coated with an inky layer of carbon nanotubes or nanowires can make a lightweight, flexible and highly conductive battery or superconductor, according to Stanford University researchers." The researchers "had previously experimented with making batteries..

Nanotech Cocktail Could Halt Spread Of Cancer Cells. The Arkansas Democrat Gazette (11/29, Dungan) reported that "researchers at the state's medical school and its land-grant university have discovered a way to magnetically trap tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream," findings that "might ultimately stop cancer's deadly metastasis and improve early diagnosis of the disease in its various f..

Robotic Arm Opens Doors For Wheelchair Users. Popular Science (11/25, Fox) reports that robotics engineer Erin Rapacki, "continuing a student project she began at University of Massachusetts, Lowell...has created a cheap robot arm that can serve as a door-opening assistant to wheelchair bound humans, or as the primary arm for mobile robots. The trick was finding the right material for the finge..

Los Alamos National Laboratory Fined Nearly $1 Million By New Mexico. The AP (11/24) reports that the New Mexico Environment Department announced Monday it "has fined Los Alamos National Laboratory nearly $1 million for failing to monitor nearby groundwater and surface water for pollution." The state's Environment Secretary Ron Curry says that "reliable monitoring is needed to determine whether..

New Method Developed For Making Nanotube Transistor Arrays. Technology Review (11/23) reports that "researchers at the University of Southern California have demonstrated large, functional arrays of transistors made using simple methods from batches of carbon nanotubes that are relatively impure." The USC engineers have developed a method for creating "large arrays of carbon nanotube transistor..

More Americans Looking Overseas For Jobs. USA Today (11/16, Davidson) reports, with the US unemployment numbers "at a 26-year-high of 10.2%, more Americans are hunting for, and landing, work overseas, according to staffing companies and executive search firms." According to "Jeff Joerres, CEO of Manpower, the No. 1 U.S. staffing company...about 500 clients are seeking jobs abroad, up from a few..

Academic Supercomputer Named Fastest In World. The AP (11/17, Mansfield) reports, "At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet - climate change, renewable energy, new medicines - rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up." The recently upgraded Jaguar XT5 computer at the Oak Ridge National Lab..

Wright State, Wright-Patterson AFB Partner For New Innovation Center. The Dayton Daily News (11/17), Larsen reports, "Wright State University will partner with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to help to make Dayton the world's center for human-centered innovation and research." The partnership yesterday "announced the university's designation as an Ohio Center of Excellence in Human-Centered In..

Old Russian Bombs Provide US With Power. The New York Times (11/10, B1, Kramer) reports on the front page of its Business Day section that about 10 percent of electricity in the United States is powered by "fuel from dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones. ... But if more diluted weapons-grade uranium isn't secured soon, the pipeline could run dry, with ramifications for consumers, as..

Start-Up Plans New Type Of Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries. Technology Review (11/6, Bourzac) reports that Amprius, "a start-up based in Menlo Park, CA, plans to sell a new type of anode for lithium-ion batteries that, the company says, will let electric vehicles travel farther and mobile devices last longer without a recharge." The company's "lithium-ion anodes are made of silicon nanowires, w..

Scientist Sees Super Energy-Efficient Computers Through Brain-Like Chips. Discover (11/6, Fox) reported on its website that Ghana-born Kwabena Boahen, "a prominent scientist at Stanford University in California," is "working to create a computer...based not on the regimented order of traditional silicon chips but on the organized chaos of the human brain," and "designing this machine will mean ..

Silicon-Silk Electronics Could Improve Neural Interfaces. Technology Review (11/3, Bourzac) reports, "By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the body." The researchers are "developing silk-silicon LEDs that might act as photonic tattoos that can show blood-sugar readings, as well as arrays of co..

Engineering, Business Management Closely Linked. The New York Times (11/2, Pfeiffer) reported, "As industrialization hurtled ahead in the United States in the early years of the 20th century, U.S. universities...set up business schools dedicated to producing managers trained in a new science of business administration," and "as the dominant applied science in industry, engineering quickly emerg..