Tag: nanotechnology
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DNA Nanobots Deliver Drugs in Living Cockroaches
from blacklistednews.com: It’s a computer – inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal. The DNA computers – known as origami robots because they work by folding and unfolding strands of DNA –…
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Breakthrough Stores Bit Of Information On Single Molecule
from huffingtonpost.co.uk: How big is a bit? Currently one bit of digital memory is ‘made’ of about 3 million atoms. But thanks to researchers in Germany and Japan, that could be able to get a whole lot smaller. Their tests have shrunk one bit of memory to the site of a single molecule – which…
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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom
from nytimes.com: Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale…