The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB, the National Metrology Institute of Germany) reported that it has developed standards for aspheric optics. The standards are intended to improve the calibration of aspheric and freeform surface measu...
Mar 10, 2022
Nanomedicines – typically drugs hidden within nanoscopic fatty membranes (‘ liposomes ’) – have potential to transform chemotherapy treatments, improving drug delivery and reducing toxic side effects for thousands of cancer patients every year. No...
Mar 9, 2022
Each simple RNA virus has a genome, its "native RNA." This genome dictates how the virus replicates in cells to eventually cause disease. The genome also has the code for making a capsid, the protein shell of a virus that encapsulates th...
Mar 9, 2022
New technique could make it possible to produce relativistic beams of ions using less intense lasers The post Graphene target boosts laser-driven ion acceleration appeared first on Physics World.
Mar 9, 2022
Despite rapid advances of nanoscience, the properties of quasi-sub-nanomaterials with structures falling between molecules and solids remain unrevealed. However, researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have now developed a cost...
Mar 9, 2022
For about a decade, a range of materials known as “multiferroics” has been promising to lead the way to the ultimate memory device, or, at the very least, the ultimate replacement to flash memory. Multiferroics are materials with two or more coex...
Mar 9, 2022
With each new SARS-CoV-2 variant that has emerged, global panic ensues to determine its level of threat. But a group of quantum biologists, engineers, and virus physicists think we already have the tools to more easily detect—and stop—dangerous co...
Mar 9, 2022
A human cell being infected by a coronavirus is a crowded place as the virus turns its host into a virus-replicating machine. Now, for the first time, Stanford scientists have used super-resolution light microscopy to sift through the crowd and de...
Mar 9, 2022
Communication between quantum systems depends on their ability to effectively interact with light. Some molecular crystals have proven to be new materials with excellent quantum properties. They are of great interest for creating quantum computers...
Mar 9, 2022
The ability to interact with light provides important functionalities for quantum systems, such as communicating over large distances, a key ability for future quantum computers. However, it is very difficult to find a material that can fully expl...
Mar 9, 2022
