Scientists at MIT have found that neutrons can actually be made to cling to particles called quantum dots, which are made up of tens of thousands of atomic nuclei, held there just by the strong f...
Argonne National Laboratory researcher Saw Wai Hla and colleagues show that X-rays can be used to characterize the elemental and chemical state of just one atom. The post Physicists X-Ray Singl...
The brain’s powerful information processing capacity can be largely attributed to neuronal microcircuits established by synaptic connectivity patterns. The post Nanowire Networks Can Exhibit ...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/materials/nanowire-network-memory-11853.html
A team of researchers from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut has succeeded in generating photons with stable frequencies emitted from quantum light sources. T...
https://www.sci.news/physics/quantum-internet-diamond-nanostructures-11811.html
Using their non-invasive sensors, Professor Francesca Iacopi from the University of Technology Sydney and her colleagues have demonstrated hands-free communication with a quadruped robot through ...
Researchers have now, for the first time, demonstrated a high-efficiency, single-lens, refractive metalens telescope. The post Scientists Create First Ultrathin, Compact Metalens Telescope Capa...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/materials/metalens-telescope-11721.html
A team of researchers from India and the United States has combined curcumin, a molecule that was first extracted from the roots of Curcuma longa (turmeric), and gold nanoparticles to create an e...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/nanotechnologies/curcumin-electrode-10726.html
Using a transmission electron microscope, a team of materials scientists led by the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics in Japan and the Queensland University of Technology has ...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/nanotechnologies/carbon-nanotube-transistors-10401.html
A team of materials scientists from RMIT University and CSIRO has designed and fabricated a micro-nano copper structure and demonstrated its exceptional bactericidal efficacy against the common a...
https://www.sci.news/medicine/bactericidal-copper-surface-10363.html
The structural characteristics of biological specimens, such as wet proteins and living cells, can be conveniently probed in their host aqueous media using soft X-rays. Conventional X-ray detecto...
https://www.sci.news/physics/worlds-thinnest-x-ray-detector-10250.html
A team of researchers led by the University of New South Wales has discovered that suspensions of gallium liquid metal — a soft, silvery-white metal that is solid at room temperature but it can...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/chemistry/liquid-gallium-carbon-dioxide-conversion-10164.html
An international team of researchers from Korea and the United States has constructed a tiny portable device that directly detects hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in human breath. No one wants bad breath ...
An acoustic amplifier developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers measures 0.5 mm2 (0.0008 square inches), and is more than 10 times more effective than the earlier versions. Modern cel...
https://www.sci.news/physics/worlds-smallest-acoustic-amplifier-09733.html
A team of scientists at Cornell University has created micron-sized shape memory actuators that enable atomically thin 2D materials to fold themselves into 3D configurations; all they require is ...
An international team of scientist from the United States, the United Kingdom and Taiwan has developed the world’s smallest memristor. Their results appear in the journal Nature Nanotechnology....
A team of scientists from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania has developed a new class of microscopic robots that incorporate semiconductor components, allowing them to be cont...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/nanotechnologies/laser-activated-walking-microrobots-08789.html
A team of scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China has developed an efficient and sustainable hierarchical steam generator that, with the help of bacterial cellulose nanoco...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/nanotechnologies/solar-steam-generator-water-08617.html
An international team of scientists has created carbon nanolattices — constructed from closed-cell plate-architectures — that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density. “...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/nanotechnologies/carbon-nanolattices-08328.html
A team of scientists from Monash University and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has developed a new biosensor that can be used inside a body and is able to emit signals that can be detecte...
https://www.sci.news/medicine/ultrasound-biosensor-08274.html
A team of researchers from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and Oblate Optics, Inc. has created a camera that does not require focusing. “Our flat lenses can drastically reduce the weigh...
https://www.sci.news/physics/focus-free-camera-flat-lens-08239.html