Scientists at Purdue University have created the world’s fastest-spinning human-made object and the most sensitive torque detector by suspending a nanoparticle in a vacuum with…
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Cells being manipulated and assembled. Credit: Douglas Blackiston, Tufts University Tiny ‘xenobots’ assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up. A…
Promotes healing and can subsequently be easily removed: a new kind of bandage coated with silicone and carbon nanofibers. Credit: Li Z et al. Nature…
Rice University researchers boosted the stability of their low-energy, copper-ruthenium syngas photocatalysts by shrinking the active sites to single atoms of ruthenium (blue). Credit: John…
During storms in the southwestern U.S., some rattlesnakes drink rain droplets from scales on their backs. This unusual behavior could help them survive in a…
Let there be light — and it was directional: The world’s first electrically powered Yagi-Uda antenna was built at the University of Würzburg’s Department of…
Researchers Create Nanoscale Sensors to Better See How High Pressure Affects Materials Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the…
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Institute for High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have used computer…
Abstraction. Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, and N.G. Chernyshevsky…
The discovery of multi-messenger nanoprobes allows scientists to simultaneously probe multiple properties of quantum materials at nanometer-scale spatial resolutions. Credit: Ella Maru Studio Bringing a…
The scheme of the experiment — circular polarization of light (marked in red and blue) transmitted through a cavity filled with liquid crystal depending on…
This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of a prototype accelerator-on-a-chip. The segment shown here are one-tenth the width of a human. The oddly…
A low-temperature atomic force microscope with a single carbon atom at the tip allows quantitative measurement of forces between sample and tip. With two-dimensional silicon…
Researchers at Princeton University have made an important step forward in the quest to build a quantum computer using silicon components, which are prized for…
Emerging fluctuation-based functionalities are expected to open a way to novel memory device technology. An international joint research team led by NIMS succeeded in fabricating…
Artists’ impression of quantum vortices in a liquid. These are the quantum equivalent of vortices in water or a tornado. Their interactions cause dynamics analogous…
An untethered model that is fully wireless and autonomous, weighing less than 1 gram and carrying its battery and all electronic components on its back.…
Researchers at McMaster University have created a self-cleaning surface, with medical settings and food industry in mind. Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University A self-cleaning surface…
Scanning electron microscopy images of a classic octet lattice and topologically optimized, isotropic oblate and quasi-spherical octahedral lattice built with a projection micro-stereolithography 3D-printing technique.…
At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action,…