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Novel device combines nanopores with electronic signals for disease detection

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In living organisms, cells have a very high capacity to process and communicate information by moving molecules or ions through tiny channels that span the cell membrane. UC Santa Cruz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Marco Rolandi...

Sep 6, 2023

China intensifies its crackdown on officials using iPhones

Engadget   -   General News Websites

China has widened a ban on the use of iPhones and other imported devices by government officials, according to The Wall Street Journal. State employees were reportedly told in chat groups and meetings not to bring foreign-branded device into the o...

Sep 6, 2023

Scientists demonstrate new, improved way to make infrared light, with quantum dots

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Scientists with the University of Chicago have demonstrated a way to create infrared light using colloidal quantum dots. The researchers said the method demonstrates great promise; the dots are already as efficient as existing conventional methods...

Sep 6, 2023

Researchers achieve efficient nutrient delivery to crop leaves through nanomaterial surface roughness engineering

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A team led by Prof. Wang Guozhong and Zhou Hongjian from the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has successfully utilized surface roughness engineering of ...

Sep 6, 2023

The first microrobots capable of navigating within groups of cells and stimulating individual cells

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A group of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed the world's first microrobot ("microbot") capable of navigating within groups of cells and stimulating individual cells. Berna Özkale Edelmann, a profe...

Sep 6, 2023

Novel Titanium Dioxide Catalyst Support for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

A chemically stable titanium dioxide electrode decorated with silver nanoparticles shows promise for converting carbon dioxide reduction into useful resources.

Sep 6, 2023

Atomically-precise quantum antidots via vacancy self-assembly

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists demonstrated a conceptual breakthrough by fabricating atomically precise quantum antidots using self-assembled single vacancies in a two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide.

Sep 6, 2023

New Photon Polarizer Lights Way to Quantum Communications

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a technique that can produce polarized photons more easily and cheaply than existing methods. The technique uses an atomic force microscope to form indentations in a two-layer stack of a...

Sep 5, 2023

Terahertz SNOM Microscope: New Tool Helps Improve Key Quantum Computing Circuit

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists utilized the terahertz SNOM microscope to detect flaws in quantum computing circuits, specifically in the nano Josephson Junction. Addressing these defects is essential for optimizing quantum computing’s faster processing capabilities.

Sep 5, 2023

Team discovers thousands of new transformable knots

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Knots are used in all sorts of ways, every day. They ensure safety both indoors and for outdoor activities such as boating or sailing, are used as surgical sutures, as decorations, and they can even be found at nanoscales in nature, for example in...

Sep 5, 2023

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