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Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2019

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ORNL used artificial intelligence to analyze data from published medical studies about bullying to reveal the potential of broader impacts, such as mental illness or disease; New low-cost, printed, flexible sensor can wrap around power cables to p...

Apr 1, 2019

AD alloyed nanoantennas for temperature-feedback identification of viruses and explosives

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Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with colleagues from Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), ITMO University and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) developed a method for effici...

Apr 1, 2019

Putting a new spin on Majorana fermions

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Scientists have proposed a new method for producing more robust Majorana fermions, a kind of quasiparticle that could act as stable bits of information in next-generation quantum computers.

Apr 1, 2019

Next-generation single-dose antidotes for opioid overdoses

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The U.S. opioid epidemic is being driven by an unprecedented surge in deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opiates. Fentanyl's powerful effects are long-lasting, and even tiny amounts of the drug can lead to an overdose. Antidotes, such a...

Mar 31, 2019

A single-dose antidote may help prevent fentanyl overdoses

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Packing overdose medication into nanoparticles could help it better counteract dangerous synthetic opioids.

Mar 31, 2019

Next-generation single-dose antidotes for opioid overdoses

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Fentanyl's powerful effects are long-lasting, and even tiny amounts of the drug can lead to an overdose. Antidotes, such as naloxone, do not last long enough in the body to fully counter the drug, requiring repeated injections. Now, scientist...

Mar 31, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Russian physicists obtained data on particles self-organization in ultracold dusty plasma

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It is for the first time that physicists investigated the behavior of particles in a dusty plasma at a temperature below 2 K. The experiment showed that at extremely low temperatures nanoclusters can...

Mar 30, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Fullerenes bridge conductive gap in organic photovoltaics: Efficient cathode interlayers made of ionene polymers refined with pendant fullerenes

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Organic photovoltaics have achieved remarkably high efficiencies, but finding optimum combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, still...

Mar 30, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Low-dose radiation therapy improves delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles to brain tumors

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A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas, raising the possibility of usi...

Mar 30, 2019

Odd reaction when functionalizing nanotubes creates a stir in the lab

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The stirrers that mix cream into your coffee probably don?t make much difference to the drink. But in a chemistry lab, it turns out using the wrong stirrer can skew the science.

Mar 29, 2019

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