Though it is one of the great mysteries of science, the transformation of water into ice often escapes people's minds as it is just assumed that's what happens. But how and why it happens is the subject of intense scrutiny by ice scienti...
Dec 6, 2021
An international team has investigated a newly synthesized liquid-crystalline material that promises applications in optoelectronics. Simple rod-shaped molecules with a single center of chirality self-assemble into helical structures at room tempe...
Dec 6, 2021
It is almost always assumed in cosmological calculations that there is a even distribution of matter in the universe. This is because the calculations would be much too complicated if the position of every single star were to be included. In reali...
Dec 6, 2021
Stanford University researchers have proposed a design for photonic quantum computer that uses readily available components and a laser to manipulate a single atom that can modify the state of the photons in the system via the phenomenon of quantu...
Dec 6, 2021
An exotic state of matter originally hypothesized almost 50 years ago has been observed for the first time. Created by Harvard researchers, this material called quantum spin liquid could eventually help improve quantum computers.Continue ReadingCa...
Dec 6, 2021
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers generate, for the first time, a vortex beam of atoms and molecules. Vortices may conjure a mental image of whirlpools... The post A Vortex in a Nanometric Teacup: Researchers Generate a Vortex Beam of Ato...
Dec 6, 2021
The existence of microbial antigens and other impurities mistakenly introduced during the development and purification of bionanopharmaceutical devices can stimulate the innate immune system, as described in a paper published in the journal Molecu...
Dec 5, 2021
In a recent study published in the journal Sensors, the development of a smartphone-based device called Krometriks is discussed, which utilizes nanotechnology to enable easy and quick colorimetric identification of microRNA (miRNAs).
Dec 5, 2021
An exciting review has outlined the significance of mitochondrial function for neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. This research has been published in the journal Pharmaceutics,...
Dec 5, 2021
Escherichia coli (E. coli) was used to test the antimicrobial effectiveness of different concentration levels of Zinc oxide nanoparticles, Ag/Zn-Ze nanocomposites, GO nanoparticles, and GO-Ag...
Dec 5, 2021
