Quantum Times http://www.quantumtimes.com/ en-us Top 10 quantum physics and nantechnology news stories automatically selected from 100+ sources iPhone biosensor does the work of a $50,000 lab-based machine We already know that smartphones can perform many of the same features as more expensive computers, cameras and other devices. Now, a portable iPhone cradle made up of about US$200 worth of ... http://www.quantumtimes.com/nano-physics-news/cluster4442310/ Fri, 24 May 2013 18:16:25 EST 4442310 Gold nanocrystal vibration captured on billion-frames-per-second film (w/ video) A billon-frames-per-second film has captured the vibrations of gold nanocrystals in stunning detail for the first time. http://www.quantumtimes.com/nano-physics-news/cluster4441590/ Thu, 23 May 2013 14:16:31 EST 4441590 Material That Sorts Molecules by Shape Could Lower the Price of Gas A hydrocarbon-sorting material could replace energy-intensive oil refining steps.A new material that sorts hydrocarbon molecules by shape could lower the cost of gasoline and also make the fuel ... http://www.quantumtimes.com/nano-materials-news/cluster4441635/ Thu, 23 May 2013 15:46:20 EST 4441635 Scientists develop advanced biological computer (Phys.org) —Using only biomolecules (such as DNA and enzymes), scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing ... http://www.quantumtimes.com/bio-medicine-news/cluster4447575/ Fri, 24 May 2013 08:46:45 EST 4447575 Nano-needles can force medicine into cells, even when they resist taking it Physicist Pawel Sikorski and his group are making beds of nails on a miniature scale – a plate covered in nano-needles designed to puncture individual cells. http://www.quantumtimes.com/bio-medicine-news/cluster4446810/ Fri, 24 May 2013 07:46:22 EST 4446810 Heinrich Rohrer: The Modest Pioneer of Nanotechnology Co-inventor of the STM and winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics Dies at 79 http://www.quantumtimes.com/nano-physics-news/cluster4441860/ Thu, 23 May 2013 15:16:37 EST 4441860 Flexible, transparent graphene-and-silver electrodes have many potential uses Transparent electrodes are in and of themselves nothing all that new – they're currently used in things like touchscreens and flat-screen TVs. Thanks to research being conducted at Indiana's ... http://www.quantumtimes.com/nano-materials-news/cluster4431600/ Thu, 23 May 2013 19:16:29 EST 4431600 Research team finds that the ratio of component atoms vital to performance There has been great interest in recent years in using tiny particles called quantum dots to produce low-cost, easily manufactured, stable photovoltaic cells. But, so far, the creation of such ... http://www.quantumtimes.com/nano-physics-news/cluster4447395/ Fri, 24 May 2013 08:16:16 EST 4447395 Unspooling DNA from nucleosomal disks The tight wrapping of genomic DNA around nucleosomes in the cell nucleus makes it unavailable for gene expression. A team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now describes a mechanism ... http://www.quantumtimes.com/bio-medicine-news/cluster4437585/ Thu, 23 May 2013 11:46:13 EST 4437585 University of Illinois biophysicists measure mechanism that determines fate of living cells (Phys.org) —New tension gauge tether (TGT) laboratory method developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has broad applications for research into stem cells, cancer, infectious ... http://www.quantumtimes.com/bio-medicine-news/cluster4442220/ Thu, 23 May 2013 15:16:24 EST 4442220