A tiny new species of chameleon has been discovered, and it seems to be the smallest reptile in the world. Known as Brookesia nana, or the nano-chameleon, the petite species can perch on a fingertip and may have the smallest adult males of any ver...
Feb 1, 2021
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles decorated by gold absorb about 96% of the solar spectrum and turn it into heat. The material can accelerate the evaporation in desalination plants up to 2.5 times and can track hazardous molecules and compounds. An i...
Feb 1, 2021
A cohort of high-profile co-authors posed this question in a study recently published in the Microplastics and Nanoplastics journal.
Feb 1, 2021
The development of pharmaceutical treatments is difficult -- clinicians and researchers know a certain drug can regulate particular functions, but they might not know how it actually works. Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Techno...
Feb 1, 2021
Tesla will work with Samsung to develop a 5nm-class semiconductor for the HW4 version of the Tesla Full Self Driving Chip. Samsung is supplying 14nm chips to Tesla for the HW3 version of FSD. The in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI) uses a variety...
Jan 31, 2021
Researchers, after 15 years of collaboration, have invented artificial muscles using carbon nanotubes.
Jan 31, 2021
A culmination of more than 15 years of work, researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas, together with collaborators from the US, South Korea, Australia, and China, have created unipolar carbon nanotube "muscles."
Jan 31, 2021
The researchers of the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth system research at the University of Helsinki have investigated how atmospheric particles are formed in the Arctic. Until recent studies, the...
Jan 30, 2021
Researchers with the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and North Dakota State University have designed a new way to deliver pancreatic cancer drugs that could make fighting the disease much...
Jan 30, 2021
New method makes it possible to separate nanodiamonds that have nitrogen-vacancy centres from those that do not The post Optical technique sorts nanoparticles by their quantum properties appeared first on Physics World.
Jan 30, 2021
