To date, there are no effective antidotes against most virus infections. Scientists have now developed a new approach: they engulf and neutralize viruses with nano-capsules tailored from genetic material using the DNA origami method. The strategy ...
Jul 15, 2021
The Google Quantum AI team has found that adding logical qubits to the company's quantum computer reduced the logical qubit error rate exponentially. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their work with logical ...
Jul 15, 2021
In superconductivity, a physical phenomenon, the electrical resistance of a material falls to zero under a specific critical temperature.
Jul 15, 2021
Researchers at ETH Zurich have trapped a tiny sphere measuring a hundred nanometres using laser light and slowed down its motion to the lowest quantum mechanical state. This technique could help researchers to study quantum effects in macroscopic ...
Jul 15, 2021
The US Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency is using a pair of CubeSats to develop a system to track hostile ballistic and hypersonic missiles from launch to impact. Part of the Nanosat Testbed Initiative, the CubeSat Networked Comm...
Jul 15, 2021
Scientists on the hunt for an unconventional kind of superconductor have produced the most compelling evidence to date that they've found one. In a pair of papers published in Science and Nature Communications, researchers at the University o...
Jul 15, 2021
Two-dimensional "nanosheets" made of bonds between metal atoms and organic molecules are attractive candidates for photoelectric conversion, but get corroded easily. In a new study, scientists from Japan and Taiwan present a new nanoshee...
Jul 15, 2021
To date, there are no effective antidotes against most virus infections. An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a new approach: they engulf and neutralize viruses with nano-capsules tailore...
Jul 15, 2021
MIT engineers have created a nanoparticle for cancer diagnosis that can reveal the presence of cancerous proteins through a urine test, and can also function as an imaging agent, pinpointing the tumor location.
Jul 15, 2021
A 21st-century version of Fizeau drag shines a spotlight on electron interactions The post Electrons in graphene drag light in their wake appeared first on Physics World.
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