News : nanotech

Researchers at Leti replaced SQUID* sensors with optically-pumped magnetometers used in space applications with the goal of slashing the cost of magnetoencephalography (MEG) machines fivefold by 2022. In research conducted under a European project, the team was able to successfully demonstrate the new magnetometers’ performance. MEG is a neuroimaging technique used to record the magnetic […] >>

The Experimenta 2018 art and science fair will be held at Maison MINATEC on February 8–10, 2018. A total of 23 systems designed by scientists and artists will be on display this year and are expected to bring in the usual crowds. Visitors will also be able to take advantage of ten panel talks: three […] >>

Etienne Perret, a faculty member at Grenoble Institute of Technology and a research scientist at LCIS, an FMNT lab based in Valence, has just won a €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his chipless RFID tags. The grant will allow Perret to hire PhD candidates and post-docs and purchase antenna characterization equipment. The […] >>

GIANT, a partner of MIT’s Global Teaching Labs program, will host five MIT students for four weeks in January. The MIT undergrads in the program must complete teaching assignments abroad. They will teach—in French—the high school students participating in the Nano@School program and will help to develop and facilitate new workshops on low-tech solutions and […] >>

France’s Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) recently approved an LMGP lab specializing in the interfaces between biological and other materials for a project on bone regeneration. Catherine Picart and her team of biomaterials engineers are investigating BMP*-mediated cotransduction to better understand how the bioactive proteins initiate the differentiation between stem cells to regenerate bone […] >>