A laser pointer small enough to get inside a cancer cell and stop its 'engine'? The stuff of science fiction? Scientists working at the nanoscale are chipping away at how to build miniature laser devices capable of intracellular bio-imag...
Dec 1, 2020
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new and improved probes, known as positive controls, that could make it easier to validate rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for COVID-19 across the globe. The advance coul...
Dec 1, 2020
The first experimental observation of three-dimensional magnetic ‘vortex rings’ provides fundamental insight into intricate nanoscale structures inside bulk
Nov 30, 2020
The paint, when scanned with ultraviolet light, can quickly reveal strains on the surface underneath
Nov 30, 2020
Researchers identify Brown-Zak fermions in superlattices made from the carbon sheet The post New family of quasiparticles appears in graphene appeared first on Physics World.
Nov 30, 2020
Researchers from the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) working with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) have located the 'sweet spot' for positioning qubits in silicon to scale up atom-based qu...
Nov 30, 2020
The first experimental observation of three-dimensional magnetic 'vortex rings' provides fundamental insight into intricate nanoscale structures inside bulk magnets, and offers fresh perspectives for magnetic devices.
Nov 30, 2020
Raman spectroscopy is widely used in analytical sciences to identify molecules via their structural fingerprint. In the biological context the Raman response provides a valuable label-free specific contrast that allows distinguishing different cel...
Nov 30, 2020
Of all the exciting topics in the field of material and biochemical research, one of the hottest by far is unraveling the mysteries of spider silk.
Nov 30, 2020
In a paper published in Nano, researchers study the role of memristors in neuromorphic computing. This novel fundamental electronic component supports the cloning of bio-neural systems with low cost and power.
Nov 30, 2020
