Gallery: Scientists Scan Striking Nanoscale Images
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The 25th anniversary of scanning tunneling microscopes was marked by an international contest to celebrate the most remarkable images created through this atomic-level technology. See some of the contest's most noteworthy submissions in this photo gallery.
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A tiny picture of Cambridge University's crest demonstrates the emerging power of nanotechnology.
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Based on a new theory, MIT scientists may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest known materials and one of the trickiest to work with -- without destroying their extraordinary electrical properties. The work is reported in the Sept.
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Researchers create three-dimensional structures using DNA-directed assembly.
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Holographs could become much more widely used as US scientist discover a quick way to make the 3D images.
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Broad ribbons of light help sort and manipulate individual cells.
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A novel 3-D imaging technique provides a first look at the internal structure of human skin cells.
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon in chips for devices.
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Digital images that are billions of pixels in size are now becoming commonplace.
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Nanotechnology research advances are happening with such frequency these days that the individual achievements are losing some of their power to awe â until you stop and think about them. Take two successes announced in recent days: the creation of the worldâs most powerful electron microscope and the invention of a new [...].
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The science photographs of Felice Frankel turn phenomena like water repellance, nanotechnology and magnetism into art.
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Researchers find way to make tiny structures emit different wavelengths of light.
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IBM Corp. researchers are touting one of the tiniest pieces of art ever made &#151; an image of the sun made from 20,000 microscopic particles of gold. The precision required is a breakthrough that heralds ultra-miniature sensors, lenses and wires inside nanoscale circuits of the future.
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Researchers get a new tool to determine protein structures.
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Scientists create a tiny image of the Sun using a technique which could be used to make silicon chips.
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A novel nanolaser could cram more data onto a hard disk.
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A method for linking ultraviolet photons is a step toward semiconductor-based quantum computing and communications