Highlights
Silver Films
Minimizing loss by thinning and smoothing
1 July 2014Gas cluster ion beam smoothing produces ultrathin silver films and lithographically patterned structures to enhance plasmonic performance
Light Extraction
Getting the most out of tiny lasers
1 July 2014An off-center waveguide enables light to be efficiently extracted from nanoscale lasers
A*STAR Institute For Infocomm Research (A*STAR I²R)
Cracks emerge in the cloud
17 June 2014A systematic analysis reveals that cloud storage services have security weaknesses that can inadvertently leak users’ data
Cost
Right on schedule
17 June 2014Scheduling algorithms based on game theory can make better use of computational resources to reduce the costs of grid computing
CD200
The fat source makes the difference
17 June 2014Stem cells derived from different types of fat express different cell-surface markers
Imaging
Microparticles get the whole picture
17 June 2014Microspheres and a tiny pipette are all it takes to image surfaces with a resolution below 100 nanometers
Hard Disk Drives
Protecting laptops on the move
17 June 2014A theoretical model for vibrations in laptops provides design strategies for reducing hard drive failures
Liver
A roadmap for pure organ cells
17 June 2014A new strategy minimizes the cellular contaminants that usually plague the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
Hydrogel
A ‘click’ toward localized chemotherapy
3 June 2014‘Click’ chemistry produces a hydrogel with less toxicity and greater tissue localization in a mouse cancer model
Sialic Acid
Sugarcoating a protein drug
3 June 2014Mammalian cells have been engineered to produce longer-lived versions of the therapeutic protein erythropoietin
Molecular Detection
Hot spots for molecules
3 June 2014The accurate placement of molecules into gaps between gold nanoantennas enables ultrahigh-sensitivity molecular detection
Cancer
Finding consensus on target genes
3 June 2014A panel of p53 variants helps scientists confidently identify genes controlled by the master regulator protein
Macrophages
Lighting up lymph nodes
3 June 2014Advances in fluorescent probe technology could allow real-time visualization of cancer progression during surgery
