The golden secret to young-looking skin revealed?
Posted by admin in Hi-tech, Medicine on 04. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
Nylstar has developed a new nanomaterial that is claimed to have moisturizing, protective and anti-aging qualities For as long as I can remember, keeping skin young and fresh has generally involved the liberal application of various moisturizing and nourishing creams with strange-sounding ingredients and an even greater number of anti-aging claims. Spain’s Nylstar has managed [...]
Japanese scientists produce artificial palladium
Posted by admin in Science on 04. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
Japanese researchers have used nanotechnology to develop a process which resembles something out of a 16th Century alchemy textbook. Although not producing gold, as was the aim of the alchemists, the scientists have discovered a technique that allows otherwise inert elements to be combined to form new intermediate alloy-elements. So far, an alloy of palladium [...]
Water Droplet Bounces Off a Superhydrophobic Nanotube Array
Posted by admin in Science on 15. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Water Meets a Superhydrophobic Surface Hydrophobic materials have all kinds of practical applications, from creating surfaces that never have to be cleaned to making supertankers and container ships glide more efficiently through the water. But practical applications aside, this amazing video — showing the crazy, beautifu; ways water droplets interact with a carbon nanotube array [...]
System For Predicting How Nanoparticles Affect the Human Body Could Save Us from Our Tech
Posted by admin in Science on 17. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Particles Nanoparticles possess lots of interesting properties that are only partially understood. That can be a problem when we introduce them to biological systems where they can do damage to essential tissues. Here ferromagnetic particles gather around a magnet placed beneath a piece of glass, forming structures we don’t usually see at the [...]
Regenerative body parts in the works
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 14. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
Fibroblasts growing on Dr. Brian Amsden’s polymer fiber A Canadian researcher is hoping that within ten years, people will be able to regrow tendons, spinal cords or heart valves lost to injury or disease. Dr. Brian Amsden, a chemical engineering professor from Queen’s University, is developing a technique wherein cells from a patient’s body would [...]
