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Nano-size food additives affect nutrient uptake in worms

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Nanoparticles from silicon dioxide are added to food products for example as anticaking agent. Recent research results from the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans show that within the intestinal cells of the roundworm nanosilica disturb the upt...

Oct 25, 2019

Super-strong magnetic supercrystals can assemble themselves

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Materials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components to assemble themselves into different structures without actually handling th...

Oct 25, 2019

Catalytic immunotherapy for cancer: Nanoparticles act as artificial enzymes

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Theoretically, our immune system could detect and kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, tumors are well armed to fight these attacks. Despite modern cancer treatments, metastases and relapses remain a major problem. Increasing anti-tumor immunity migh...

Oct 25, 2019

What Google's 'quantum supremacy' means for the future of computing

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For the first time ever, a quantum computer has performed a computational task that would be essentially impossible for a conventional computer to complete, according to a team from Google.

Oct 25, 2019

Catalytic immunotherapy for cancer: nanoparticles act as artificial enzymes

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Increasing anti-tumor immunity might now be made possible, thanks to copper telluride nanoparticles that mimic enzymes, especially under NIR-II light irradiation. This induces oxidative stress in tumor cells, quashing their immunosuppressive statu...

Oct 25, 2019

Catalytic immunotherapy for cancer: Nanoparticles act as artificial enzymes

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Theoretically, our immune system could detect and kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, tumors are well armed to fight these attacks. Despite modern cancer treatments, metastases and relapses remain a major problem. Increasing anti-tumor immunity migh...

Oct 25, 2019

Building single-atom qubits under a microscope

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Our team at IBM Research made a breakthrough in controlling the quantum behavior of individual atoms, demonstrating a versatile new building block for quantum computation.

Oct 25, 2019

Living on the edge: How a 2-D material got its shape

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Ever since its discovery in 2004, graphene—an atomically thin material with amazing strength and electrical properties—has inspired scientists around the world to design new 2-D materials to serve a broad range of applications, from renewable ener...

Oct 25, 2019

Hydrogen boride nanosheets: A promising material for hydrogen carrier

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Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, and colleagues in Japan have reported a promising hydrogen carrier in the form of hydrogen boride nanosheets. This two-dimensional material, which is not yet well studied, could ...

Oct 25, 2019

Hydrogen boride nanosheets: A promising material for hydrogen carrier

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Researchers report a promising hydrogen carrier in the form of hydrogen boride nanosheets. This two-dimensional material, which has only recently begun to be explored, could go on to be used as safe, light-weight, high-capacity hydrogen storage ma...

Oct 25, 2019

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