HOUSTON -- (Feb. 1, 2011) -- Rice University bioengineers and physician-scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have successfully destroyed tumors of human brain cancer ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Naomi Halas: Well, nanoshells are much bigger than an atom ...

Two-photon excitation fluorescence is growing in popularity in the bioimaging field but is limited by fluorophores' extremely low two-photon absorption cross-section. The researcher Dr. Guowei Lu and ...

Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, ...

(Phys.org) —Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a nanoshell to protect foreign enzymes used to starve cancer cells as part of chemotherapy. Their work is featured ...

Researchers have successfully destroyed tumors of human brain cancer cells in the first animal tests of a minimally invasive treatment that zaps glioma tumors with heat. The researchers reported that ...

Imagine creating novel devices with amazing and exotic optical properties not found in nature -- by simply evaporating a droplet of particles on a surface. Scientists have created a way to use ...

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new technology that promises to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic cells found in thin-film solar cells Researchers at Stanford University have ...

(Nanowerk News) Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one side of the cavernous, half-domed ...

Following successful testing, UK based performance coatings specialist, nanoShell ltd of Plymouth, has launched nanoShell Solar PV it’s self-cleaning hydrophobic coating for solar panel glass. Easy to ...