Scientists have developed protocols to assess the toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics in soil and aquatic ecosystems.
Oct 10, 2023
Discharged in large quantities by textile, cosmetic, ink, paper and other manufacturers, dyes carry high-toxicity and can bring potential carcinogens to wastewater. It's a major concern for wastewater treatment - but researchers may have foun...
Oct 10, 2023
A study published in Nature Nanotechnology shows how nanoclusters of insulin can control insulin activity. The results can lead to new types of insulin drugs, senior author Ana Teixeira at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB...
Oct 10, 2023
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) and Kyoto University have suggested an approach for growing ‘face-on’ and ‘edge-on’ conductive metal-organic frameworks (cMOF) nanofilms on substrates by cont...
Oct 10, 2023
Join the audience for a live webinar on 24 October 2023 sponsored by Bruker, in partnership with IUVSTA The post Infrared nanospectroscopy – a new tool in biophysics appeared first on Physics World.
Oct 10, 2023
Researcher show that n-bit integers can be factorized by independently running a quantum circuit with orders of magnitude fewer qubits many times. It then use polynomial-time classical post-processing. The correctness of the algorithm relies on a ...
Oct 10, 2023
Every motor we use needs a magnet. University of Manitoba researcher Rachel Nickel is studying how rust could make those magnets cheaper and easier to produce.
Oct 10, 2023
Researchers have developed a nanosheet device with the highest energy storage performance yet seen.
Oct 10, 2023
Like many others in 2021, Avi Messica and Ziv Leshem saw that scaling down the size of CMOS circuits—the historical driver of Moore’s Law—was reaching the end of its road. “We wanted to do something about it,” says Messica, CEO of Israeli startup ...
Oct 9, 2023
UK-based Graft Polymer has joined a consortium led by the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences relating to the GrinShield Project Twinning program for new graphene-based composites in electromagnetic interference shielding. The initiative, supporte...
Oct 9, 2023