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July 4, 2024

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Nanorobot With Hidden Weapon Kills Cancer Cells

July 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed nanorobots that kill cancer cells in mice. The robot's weapon is hidden in a nanostructure and is exposed only in the tumour microenvironment, sparing healthy ...

The Future of Metals Research With Artificial Intelligence

June 27, 2024 — A research team has developed an optimal artificial intelligence model to predict the yield strength of various metals, effectively addressing traditional cost and time ...

Materials Research Revolutionized by a Small Change

June 27, 2024 — Scientists develop the next generation of highly efficient memory materials with atom-level ...

Soft, Stretchy Electrode Simulates Touch Sensations Using Electrical Signals

June 28, 2024 — A team of researchers has developed a soft, stretchy electronic device capable of simulating the feeling of pressure or vibration when worn on the skin. This device represents a step towards creating ...

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Revealing the Dynamic Choreography Inside Multilayer Vesicles

June 26, 2024 — Our cells and the machinery inside them are engaged in a constant dance. This dance involves some surprisingly complicated choreography within the lipid bilayers that comprise cell membranes and ...

Microrobot-Packed Pill Shows Promise for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice

June 26, 2024 — Engineers have developed a pill that releases microscopic robots, or microrobots, into the colon to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The ...

A New Study Highlights Potential of Ultrafast Laser Processing for Next-Gen Devices

June 26, 2024 — A new study uncovers the remarkable potential of ultrafast lasers that could provide innovative solutions in 2D materials processing for many ...

Golden Ball Mills as Green Catalysts

June 17, 2024 — A gold-coated milling vessel for ball mills proved to be a real marvel: without any solvents or environmentally harmful chemicals, the team was able to use it to convert alcohols into aldehydes. The ...

Novel Method for Measuring Nano/microplastic Concentrations in Soil Using Spectroscopy

June 17, 2024 — Current techniques for measuring nano/microplastic (N/MP) concentrations in soil require the soil organic matter content to be separated and have ...

Nano-Immunotherapy Developed to Improve Lung Cancer Treatment

June 14, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new nanomedicine therapy that delivers anticancer drugs to lung cancer cells and enhances the immune system's ability to fight cancer. The team showed promising results ...

Researchers Film Energy Materials as They Form

June 18, 2024 — Shooting a movie in the lab requires special equipment. Especially when the actors are molecules -- invisible to the naked eye -- reacting with each other. 'Imagine trying to film tiny lava flows ...

Self-Assembling and Disassembling Swarm Molecular Robots Via DNA Molecular Controller

June 14, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in developing a DNA-based molecular controller. Crucially, this controller enables the autonomous assembly and disassembly ...

How a Tiny Device Could Lead to Big Physics Discoveries and Better Lasers

May 24, 2024 — Researchers have fabricated a device no wider than a human hair that will help physicists investigate the fundamental nature of matter and light. Their findings could also support the development of ...

Nanosized Blocks Spontaneously Assemble in Water to Create Tiny Floating Checkerboards

June 13, 2024 — Researchers have engineered nanosized cubes that spontaneously form a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern when dropped on the surface of water. The ...

Swimming Microrobots Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs to Metastatic Lung Tumors in Mice

June 12, 2024 — Engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors. This approach has shown ...

Uncovering the Nature of Emergent Magnetic Monopoles

June 12, 2024 — To understand the unique physical phenomena associated with the properties of magnetic hedgehogs and antihedgehogs, which behave as virtual magnetic monopoles and antimonopoles respectively, it is ...

Quantum Dots and Metasurfaces: Deep Connections in the Nano World

June 12, 2024 — A team has developed printable, highly efficient light-emitting ...

Splitting Hairs: Science of Biomechanics to Understand of Bad Hair Days

June 10, 2024 — Academics are often accused of 'splitting hairs', but a team has now devised a machine to do just that. We all have a bad hair day from time to time, and split ends are a common problem. ...

Nanoparticles: Risk for Babies in the Womb

June 6, 2024 — Little is yet known about the health effects of nanoparticles on pregnancy. An interdisciplinary team is currently analyzing the risks for babies in the womb. Using a lab model, the researchers were ...

Better Farming Through Nanotechnology

June 6, 2024 — Advanced technologies enable the controlled release of medicine to specific cells in the body. Scientists argue these same technologies must be applied to agriculture if growers are to meet ...

Crystal Engineering Modifies 2D Metal Halide Perovskites Into 1D Nanowires

June 6, 2024 — Engineers have created a patent-pending method that creates layered perovskite nanowires with exceptionally well-defined and flexible cavities that exhibit a wide range of unusual optical properties ...

Enhancing Superconductivity of Graphene-Calcium Superconductors

June 5, 2024 — Researchers experimentally investigate the impact of introducing high-density calcium on the superconductivity of calcium-intercalated bilayer ...

Towards Next-Gen Functional Materials: Direct Observation of Electron Transfer in Solids

June 4, 2024 — Nanoscale electron transfer (ET) in solids is fundamental to the development of multifunctional materials. However, ET in solids is not yet clearly understood. Now, researchers achieved a direct ...

Shining a Light on Molecules: L-Shaped Metamaterials Can Control Light Direction

June 4, 2024 — Polarized light waves spin clockwise or counterclockwise as they travel, with one direction behaving differently than the other as it interacts with molecules. This directionality, called chirality ...

Scientists Develop 'X-Ray Vision' Technique to See Inside Crystals

June 3, 2024 — A team of researchers has created a new way to visualize crystals by peering inside their structures, akin to having X-ray vision. Their new technique -- which they aptly named 'Crystal ...

Development of Revolutionary Color-Tunable Photonic Devices

June 3, 2024 — Team develops a flexible and stretchable device capable of omnidirectional color wavelength ...

Enhancing Nanofibrous Acoustic Energy Harvesters With Artificial Intelligence

June 3, 2024 — Scientists have employed artificial intelligence techniques to improve the design and production of nanofibers used in wearable nanofiber acoustic energy harvesters (NAEH). These acoustic devices ...

Controlling Ion Transport for a Blue Energy Future

May 30, 2024 — Researchers probed the transit of cations across a nanopore membrane for the generation of osmotic energy. The team controlled the passage of cations across the membrane using a voltage applied to a ...

Controlling Water, Transforming Greenhouse Gases

May 24, 2024 — Researchers have outlined a way to manipulate water molecules to make CO2R more efficient, with the ultimate goal of creating a clean energy loop. Through their new method, the team was able to ...

Wearable Ultrasound Patch Enables Continuous, Non-Invasive Monitoring of Cerebral Blood Flow

May 22, 2024 — Engineers have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that can offer continuous, non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the brain. The soft and stretchy patch can be comfortably worn on the temple ...

Under Extreme Impacts, Metals Get Stronger When Heated, Study Finds

May 22, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that when metal is struck by an object moving at a super high velocity, the heat makes the metal stronger. The finding could lead to new approaches to designing materials ...

Strings That Can Vibrate Forever (Kind Of)

May 22, 2024 — Researchers have engineered string-like resonators capable of vibrating longer at ambient temperature than any previously known solid-state object -- approaching what is currently only achievable ...

Recycling Carbon Dioxide Into Household Chemicals

May 21, 2024 — Scientists report a family of tin-based catalysts that efficiently converts CO2 into ethanol, acetic acid and formic acid. These liquid hydrocarbons are among the most produced chemicals in the U.S ...

Powering Wearable Devices With High-Performing Carbon Nanotube Yarns

May 20, 2024 — Carbon nanotube (CNT) yarns are promising for flexible and fabric-type wearable materials that can convert waste heat into thermoelectricity. To improve the thermoelectric properties of CNT yarns, ...