A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has been awarded $2.3 million in three grants to further groundbreaking developments in the prevention of lethal cancer metastasis and take his team’s findings to the first clinical trial of its kind.

The three new grants recently awarded to Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., director of the Phillips Classic Laser and Nanomedicine Laboratories at UAMS, are in addition to a $1.5 million National Cancer Institute grant he received in May.

Thinkers at Microsoft's inhouse research arm are free to let their minds wander as they look to the future

Another way of getting rid of carbon dioxide

Artists and designers are turning to data visualization to interpret the deluge of information around us, often with unexpected results

An attempt to mimic part of a cell on a chip

“WHAT is a Golgi apparatus used for?” sounds like a question from the more recherché type of television quiz show. The answer is “putting the finishing touches to proteins”. Many proteins will not work properly unless they are coated with the right mixture of sugar molecules. The Golgi apparatus (named after Camillo Golgi, who discovered it in 1898, and illustrated in the accompanying picture) is the part of a cell that sweetens them up.

The University of Toronto will host the world's leading scientists in physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics to review major advances in quantum information and quantum control during a conference running August 24 – 27.

Does ethanol in Iowa cause deforestation in Brazil?

HOW green is ethanol? The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), an American lobby for the stuff, obviously wants voters and politicians to think it is very green indeed. The association’s cool-coloured website plays down claims that ethanol may actually harm the environment. The biggest target of those claims these days is that growing maize to make ethanol causes indirect changes in land use by altering the incentives of other, often foreign, farmers.