How Will Nanotechnology Revolutionize Medicine?
Over the past 40 years, giant leaps have been made in the field of nanotechnology. What is nanotech, and what is the future of it? Read More: An artificial molecular pump http://www.nature.com...
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Remember when Inside the Magic Schoolbus shrank down and flew into Arnold? Yeah, science is actually doing that. THE FUTURE IS NOW. Giant feats of engineering like space vehicles, dams, skyscrapers and massive airplanes are complex, to be sure… but at least the engineers working on them can SEE what they're working on. Imagine engineering a pump which is only a single molecule in size. Yeah. It's REALLY HARD, but a team from Northwestern University did it earlier this year. In nature, molecules are constantly moving around in our bodies, transporting energy, oxygen, and even information from one place to another; this molecular pump is a rudimentary synthetic copy of something nature does all the time. This pump uses a dumbbell-shaped molecule, ...
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Remember when Inside the Magic Schoolbus shrank down and flew into Arnold? Yeah, science is actually doing that. THE FUTURE IS NOW. Giant feats of engineering like space vehicles, dams, skyscrapers and massive airplanes are complex, to be sure… but at least the engineers working on them can SEE what they're working on. Imagine engineering a pump which is only a single molecule in size. Yeah. It's REALLY HARD, but a team from Northwestern University did it earlier this year. In nature, molecules are constantly moving around in our bodies, transporting energy, oxygen, and even information from one place to another; this molecular pump is a rudimentary synthetic copy of something nature does all the time. This pump uses a dumbbell-shaped molecule, ...
