X-rays are taken for granted in the western world, but the World Health Organization believes that close to two-thirds of the global population do not have reliable access to diagnostic imaging. The cost of the equipment alone is prohibit...
Dec 4, 2020
Researchers have overcome a major design challenge on the path to controlling the dimensions of so-called DNA nanobots - structures that assemble themselves from DNA components.
Dec 4, 2020
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has built and tested a photonic quantum computer that demonstrates quantum supremacy. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their computer, which th...
Dec 4, 2020
UNSW researchers have overcome a major design challenge on the path to controlling the dimensions of so-called DNA nanobots—structures that assemble themselves from DNA components.
Dec 4, 2020
The online cover of Science Advances this week features the assembly of nanoparticle surfactants at a solid-liquid interface using advanced microscopy techniques such as laser scanning confocal microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Materials sci...
Dec 4, 2020
A COVID-19 vaccine — or two — is just around the corner, bringing with it the possibility of a return to normalcy for many people. These medical interventions use nanotechnology to mimic nature’s own method of slipping past the immune system to de...
Dec 4, 2020
Juniyali Nauriyal, a doctoral student at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics, said she was always interested in physics but she had a special knack for optics. She received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Mu...
Dec 4, 2020
The fact that carbon nanotubes exhibit fluorescence is well known. However, it is surprising and potentially useful to find a second level of fluorescence. A new study has now revealed how that works....
Dec 4, 2020
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have found that graphene-based heat pipes can help solve the problems of cooling electronics and power systems used in avionics, data centres,...
Dec 4, 2020
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have demonstrated how a microcavity laser can produce energy-saving and user-safe laser emissions requiring low pump power. The work has implications for nanoscale biological applications.
Dec 4, 2020
