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Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Film promises massive storage Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a way to store the 1s and 0s of digital information in a thin film of organic molecules using a scanning tunneling microscope.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Nano light stores data in polymer Researchers from the University of Pisa in Italy have shown that it is possible to write lots of information in very little space using a thin film of polymer and polarized blue light.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Material helps bits beat heat Researchers have discovered a way to shore up magnetic energy that promises bits only a few nanometers across -- the span of a few dozen hydrogen atoms. The method could make it possible to store more than a trillion bits per square inch, according to the researchers.
Technology Research News January 14, 2004	Hardy molecule makes memory In what may mark an advance in the quest for ever-higher data-storage density, researchers from the University of California have shown that a type of porphyrin molecule holds up under temperatures as high as 400 degrees Celsius and after being written to and read from trillions of times.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Sandwich promises cheap storage University of California at Los Angeles researchers have used a simple, inexpensive manufacturing technique to fabricate tiny sandwiches of organic material and metal that can be used as electrical switches.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Paired molecules store data Researchers from the University of California at Irvine have bonded a pair of molecules to form a molecule that has two states. The components are photochromic fulgimide and a dye molecule capable of florescence.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Material Promises Denser DVDs Researchers have found a way to use electron beams to read, write and erase bits. The technology could lead to high-speed, ultrahigh density storage media; the material at the heart of the technology could also be used in solar cells.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Bumpy surface stores data Cramming more data into a given storage device is all about making bits that are extremely small and consistently spaced. Using individual molecules to store bits would be a tremendous leap forward. One molecule gaining researchers' attention is rotaxane.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Eric Smalley	Memory Stores Three Bits in One Researchers have built a prototype molecular memory device that stores three bits in the same spot, multiplying storage density without increasing the device footprint.
Technology Research News November 17, 2004	Low-Pressure Material Holds Hydrogen One key to using hydrogen as a fuel is finding practical ways to store it. Researchers have discovered a kinetic trapping effect that allows hydrogen to be adsorbed.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Prefab key to molecular memory Nano-devices promise to use molecules as super-fast computer circuits, store fantastic amounts of information in a minuscule area and sense minute amounts of chemicals and biological materials. Researchers have brought these possibilities a step closer.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Hot tip boosts disk capacity Many research efforts are aimed at increasing the amount of information that can be stored in a given area of magnetic media like computer disks. One challenge is making smaller magnetic bits that are stable at room temperature.
Chemistry World March 3, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Hydrocarbon turns superconductor Researchers in Japan have created the first superconducting material based on a molecule of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Eric Smalley	Device demos terabit storage Researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation in Japan have found a way to store huge amounts of data after figuring out how to make many tiny, inverted dots in a thin film of metal and determining how to sense the state of each dot.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003	Organic transistors get small Researchers from Cornell University have shown that it is possible to fabricate useful organic thin film transistors that have a channel length as small as 30 nanometers. The smaller the channel, the faster the transistor. Previously, organic TFT channel lengths were limited to about 100 nm.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics.
Chemistry World July 15, 2015 Aurora Walshe	Fog-free film doesn't dare to glare Scientists in China have built a thin film that retains its antifogging properties even under an antireflective coating.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Nanowires track molecular activity Researchers from Harvard University have found a way to use transistors made from silicon nanowires to gain information about how small molecules bind to proteins.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Prachi Patel	Laser-Heated Hard Drives Could Break Data Density Barrier Scientists at Seagate Technology show that heat-assisted magnetic recording could break the looming terabit-per-square-inch data limit
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Hydrogen yields smaller nanowires Researchers from City University of Hong Kong in China have produced silicon wires that are smaller than any made before.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Prachi Patel	Five-Dimensional DVD Could Store 1.6 Terabytes Data is held in multiple layers, wavelengths, and polarizations
Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Nanotubes Move Molten Metal Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have found a way to move globules of molten metal that are as small as 30 nanometers in diameter. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter, or the span of 10 hydrogen atoms.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	Plastic Memory Retains Data Researchers in Austria have borrowed a technique from audio recording technology to fashion a new type of computer memory made from organic, or plastic materials.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Tilted trenches turn out tiny wires Researchers from UCLA, UCSB, and Cal Tech have found a way to make arrays of closely-spaced and crossed metal and semiconductor nanowires.
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 Eric Smalley	Angle speeds plastic transistor Going with the flow is a good way to pick up speed, particularly for plastic transistors. Rotating the crystal 180 degrees can change the transistor's performance by as much as 3.5 times.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Plastic changes color in heat Researchers have engineered a plastic that loses its color when heated. It could eventually be used to produce relatively inexpensive temperature-based paint.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Stamp Forms Organic Laser Researchers have found a class of materials that promises to improve organic electronic components like lasers, light-emitting diodes, and waveguides. Light-emitting diodes are a key component of computer screens, and waveguides channel light.
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Ritchie S. King	The Global Brain Trade A survey reveals the worldwide migration patterns of researchers
InternetNews August 3, 2010	Tech Firms Split on Paying for Security Flaws Some major IT firms have made it a standard practice to pay security researchers for bringing vulnerabilities to their attention, while others have a strict prohibition against it. What accounts for the divide?
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors.
Chemistry World June 22, 2010 Andy Extance	Powering up organic solar cells Organic molecules combining aromatic, lipophilic and hydrophilic segments can organise themselves into structures with five times the photoconductivity of structures like those typically adopted by aromatic groups alone.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Water spilt with aluminium Aluminium clusters' ability to split water molecules and release hydrogen is dictated by the geometric arrangement of active sites on their surface, US scientists have discovered.
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.
Chemistry World July 2007 Dylan Stiles	Opinion: Bench Monkey Synthesizing molecules that force atoms into bizarre contortionist acts is the only way to learn.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004	Angles increase optical storage Ten years from now, one thousand gigabytes of data -- the equivalent of 472 hours of film -- could fit on an optical disk the size of a DVD. That's just over 200 times the storage of today's common 4.7-gigabyte DVDs.
Chemistry World November 16, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Tantalizing Boost for Hydrogen Storage US chemists have announced the discovery of a new hydrogen-storage material, which they say stores large amounts of the gas at room temperature.
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Jon Cartwright	'Chemical soldering' heralds single molecule electronics Scientists in Japan and Switzerland have demonstrated how to wire up single molecules with conductive nanowires.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Nano thermometer withstands heat Researchers from Japan have fashioned nano thermometers with an especially large temperature range from a magnesium oxide nanotubes filled with liquid gallium. The tiny thermometers are between 20 and 60 nanometers thick, or about one hundredth the diameter of a red blood cell.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.
Chemistry World September 6, 2012 Ned Stafford	Scientists: workaholics but happy A new study has found what many already know -- that when the sun goes down researchers don't go to bed, but continue working on into the wee small hours of the night. And many of them also carry on working through the weekend too.
PC Magazine June 8, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Sharper Image at Nanoscale Scientists have created a superlens that overcomes a limitation in physics that has constrained the resolution of optical images.
Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules Scientists in the US have developed an automated platform to create small organic molecules from a set of simple of chemical building blocks.
InternetNews August 20, 2010	Google Nabs 11 Chrome Vulnerabilities The company shuts down a number of potentials security holes while paying out more than $10,000 to third-party researchers who discovered the flaws.
Chemistry World July 29, 2010 Carol Stanier	Methane all lined up Swiss researchers have found that the way methane molecules vibrate when they hit a nickel surface can have a huge effect on their reactivity.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanorings promise big memory Researchers have found a way to cause magnetic cobalt nanoparticles to spontaneously assemble into rings that are less than 100 nanometers across. Because the molecule is small, memory made from it could hold a great deal of information.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Branchy Molecules Make Precise Pores Researchers have found a way to coax a material containing microscopic pores to assemble from two very different types of molecules. The material could be used as packaging material for microscopic electronics, to store gases, and to deliver tiny amounts of drugs to very specific places.
Chemistry World November 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple?
InternetNews July 26, 2010	Microsoft Updates Bug Reporting Process Extending an olive branch to security researchers, Microsoft says it will provide new mechanisms to make it easier to report vulnerabilities.