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The Lycurgus Cup represents one of the outstanding achievements of the ancient glass industry. This late Roman cut glass vessel is extraordinary in several respects, firstly in the method of fabrication and the exceptional workmanship involved and secondly in terms of the unusual optical effects displayed by the glass. The Lycurgus Cup – A Roman Nanotechnology The Lycurgus Cup is ... Read More »

Sometime before 600 BC, Mayan artists painted one of the few frescoes–still in existence–that displays the domestic life of normal people in this ancient civilization (other Mayan frescoes display the lives of deities and rulers). The frescoes were found in a pyramid at the Calakmul archaeology site in Mexico. Calakmul is one of the biggest Mayan sites around, but it ... Read More »

Nanotechnology for water treatment will be the subject of the first nano4water cluster workshop which will take place on 27 October 2010 in Aachen, Germany, the day before the 13th Aachen Membrane Colloquium opens its two-day event. The nano4water cluster is a coalition of research projects, funded by the European Commission following a joint call on nanotechnologies for water treatment ... Read More »

“Destination Nano” is New England’s premier Nanomanufacturing Conference, hosted by the UMass Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center. Leaders from industry, government, and UMass Lowell will showcase current topics in sensors, nanomaterials, EHS, nanomedicine, and energy.  Come find out what the latest programs are! Speakers include: Dr. Alkym Akyurtlu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell Peter Antoinette, Co-Founder, President and ... Read More »

The multi-welled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories, could become a thing of the past thanks to new electronic biosensing technology developed by a team of microelectronics engineers and biomedical scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Essentially arrays of tiny test tubes, microplates have been used for decades to simultaneously test multiple samples for ... Read More »

After the near-total collapse of the US economy two years ago, the economy has recovered to the point at least that it has crawled its way out of recession, albeit with little being done for unemployment. Now we get a pretty regular stream of advice on how the US can improve this situation and avoid a second recession and perhaps ... Read More »

Intensity increases 1,000-fold in Rice lab’s experiment IMAGE: This artist’s rendering shows how plasmons in a pair of gold nanotips concentrate light from a laser, amplifying it by a factor of 1,000. HOUSTON – (Sept. 20, 2010) – Everybody who’s ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make ... Read More »