Tag Archives: nanotechnology

Scientists Unlock Secrets of Protein Folding

September 18, 2007 – 11:43 pm

From Physorg.com.
A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes. Using ORNL’s Cray XT4 Jaguar supercomputer as well as computer systems in Italy and Germany, the team revealed a [...]

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Levitation Mystery Solved

August 7, 2007 – 8:56 pm

From Telegraph
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The University of St Andrews team has created an ‘incredible levitation effects’ by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together. They have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.
Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines [...]

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