Rafael Reif, named the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday after 32 years at the school, almost did not come to MIT at all.

Interfacial electron transfer between a chromophore and a semiconductor nanoparticle is one of the key processes in a dye-sensitized solar cell.

Nam Koo-hyun speaks out on online argument over breakthrough research After his breakthrough research in nanotechnology headlined the top science journal "Nature," Nam Koo-hyun is never jubilant.

P2i, HzO and Liquipel are all competing for commercial clients interested in making their laptops and mobile phones fully submersible.

Malvern Instruments light scattering specialists Dr Ana Morfesis and Dr Ulf Nobbmann, will present a poster on 'Nanoparticle characterization by light scattering' as part of the 86th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium being held at the University of Baltimore in Maryland, USA, June 10-13, 2012.

The Prime Minister, who chaired the second Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council meeting, witnessed the ex-changing of the documents at the New York Academy of Sciences at the World Trade Centre here yesterday.

Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have appointed Peter W. Voorhees, the Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern, and Pete Beckman, director of the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne, as co-directors of the Northwestern-Argonne ... (more)

The researchers built a generator with a postage stamp-sized electrode and based on a small film of specially engineered viruses.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -a strand of staph bacteria that does not respond to commonly available antibiotics-is scary stuff.

Scientists have developed a means with which to use viruses to power small electrical devices.