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The ability of DNA to self-assemble into a variety of nanostructures and nanomachines is being exploited by a growing number of researchers.

From possible next-generation electronic devices to the detailed workings of living cells, molecules can process information in many different ways, as Richard Jones reports.

Artificial muscles have been made from carbon nanotubes

Replacing alkali metals with caesium completely changes the superconducting properties of metal fullerides

Near-field optical effects have been exploited in heat-assisted magnetic recording

An atomic force microscopy technique can distinguish between metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes

A new two-dimensional material analogous to graphene

Nanoparticles tested in a new three-dimensional cell culture model showed less toxic effects than in conventional two-dimensional cultures

Faraday's law of induction must be extended to include the effects of electron spin in nanomagnetic devices

STM images reveal unusual quantum vortices that could explain the superconductivity of iron pnictides

Metal nanoparticles confined within carbon nanotubes make effective catalysts

A brand new phase of carbon has been created by blasting graphite with a femtosecond laser

The scanning tunnelling microscope can image the Fermi surface of a solid

An oriented array of nanocups can re-direct light in arbitrary directions

Materials can have one, two or three dimensions in the nanoscale regime, which adds to the variety of phenomena that can be explored in nanoscience and technology.

Conducting atomic force microscope tips can be used to create and erase nanoscale regions of a two-dimensional electron gas at the interface of crystalline semiconducting oxides