A chemistry professor has developed a new test using gold nanoparticles to establish the flavor profile of maple syrup and help producers evaluate its quality.
May 5, 2020
Transparent crystals with optical nonlinearities could enable quantum computing at room temperature by 2030. Army Researchers and Dr. Mikkel Heuck and Prof. Dirk Englund of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated the feasibilit...
May 5, 2020
It's said that maple syrup is Quebec's liquid gold. Now scientists have found a way to use real gold -- in the form of nanoparticles -- to quickly find out how the syrup tastes.
May 5, 2020
Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of self-organization of active matter. When photochemically active nanoparticles are enclosed at high density within a drop and are exposed to UV light, a self-organized flow pattern emerges by spontaneo...
May 5, 2020
Scientists argue that hydrogen, used as a zero-carbon energy carrier, has the potential to significantly transform the global energy landscape.
May 5, 2020
A new preclinical study by researchers at the University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine offers promise of a specific treatment for NEC, a rare inflammatory bowel dis...
May 5, 2020
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, N95 face masks have been in short supply. Health care workers, in particular, desperately need these masks to protect themselves from the respiratory droplets of infected patients. But because of the sh...
May 5, 2020
Since Robert Hooke's first description of a cell in Micrographia 350 years ago, microscopy has played an important role in understanding the rules of life.
May 4, 2020
Tiny bundles could also be used as artificial muscles The post Diamond nanothreads could beat batteries for energy storage, theoretical study suggests appeared first on Physics World.
May 4, 2020
New technology allows scientists to measure wavefront distortions induced by the specimen, either a cell or a tissue, directly from the signals generated by single molecules -- tiny light sources attached to the cellular structures of interest.
May 4, 2020
