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Simple and effective mercury sensor taps into the power of tapping

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Mercury can definitely be harmful in large amounts, and detecting its presence in foods or liquids typically requires lab-based tests. A new nanosensor, however, can quickly detect even tiny concentrations of the heavy metal onsite, simply by tapp...

Feb 22, 2023

'Electronic nose' built with sustainably sourced microbial nanowires could revolutionize health monitoring

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced the invention of a nanowire, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, which can be cheaply grown by common bacteria and can be tuned to "smell" a vast array of chemi...

Feb 22, 2023

Deepfreeze electronics for supercomputers—technology prepares quantum computing for industrial use

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Quantum computers are highly energy-efficient and extremely powerful supercomputers. But for these machines to realize their full potential in new applications like artificial intelligence or machine learning, researchers are hard at work at perfe...

Feb 22, 2023

Boosting superconductivity in graphene bilayers

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nearly a decade ago, researchers heralded the discovery of a new wonder class of ultrathin materials with special optical and electrical properties that made it a potential rival for graphene, a form of carbon discovered in 2004 whose own special ...

Feb 22, 2023

This new sensor can detect mercury ions with just a tap

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Although many measures are in place to prevent contamination, pollutants such as mercury and lead can still end up in the environment. Sensing them often requires complicated processes, but what if you could detect them with the tap of a fingertip...

Feb 22, 2023

Short electrical pulses switch superconductivity on and off in magic-angle graphene – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New finding could help in the development of novel switchable superconducting electronics The post Short electrical pulses switch superconductivity on and off in magic-angle graphene appeared first on Physics World.

Feb 22, 2023

Google’s quantum computer reached an error-correcting milestone

Science News   -   Scientific News Websites

A larger array of quantum bits outperformed a smaller one in tests performed by Google researchers, suggesting quantum computers could be scaled up.

Feb 22, 2023

Twin-bioengine self-adaptive micro/nanorobots developed for gastrointestinal inflammation therapy

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Micro/nanorobots with self-propelling and self-navigating capabilities have attracted extensive attention in from researchers in drug delivery and therapy due to their controllable locomotion in hard-to-reach body tissues.

Feb 22, 2023

Twin-engine tiny robots for gastrointestinal inflammation therapy

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a twin-bioengine yeast micro/nanorobot with self-propelling and self-adaptive capabilities that can autonomously navigate to inflamed sites to provide gastrointestinal inflammation therapy via enzyme-macrophage switching.

Feb 22, 2023

Nanofluidic devices offer solutions for studying single molecule chemical reactions

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed principles and technologies of nanofluidic devices to freely manipulate nanomaterials, biomaterials, and molecules at the single-molecule level using fundamental technologies such as nanofluidic processing, functional in...

Feb 22, 2023

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