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Flies smell through a gore-tex system

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New insights into the formation of surface nanostructures.

Apr 19, 2019

AKHAN Awarded Patent for Diamond-Based IR Antireflective Coating

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

AKHAN Semiconductor Inc. has been issued a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its next-generation, diamond-based multilayer antireflective coating systems, which are key in military and aerospace sensor and detector applications. ...

Apr 18, 2019

Improved Optical Multiplexing with Temporal DNA Barcodes

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In a new imaging technique developed at Duke University in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, short strands of DNA were labeled with fluorescent, temporal “barcodes” for observing biochemical activity at the molecular scale. This ti...

Apr 18, 2019

Flies smell through a Gore-Tex system: New insights into the formation of surface nanostructures

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists have gained important insights into how the nanopores that allow the fruit fly to detect chemicals in the air, and has identified the gene responsible for their development.

Apr 18, 2019

Bioengineers add cooperative molecules to their toolkit for programming signal processing

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals from the environment to perform desired cellular functions. Synthetic biologists have been able to reconstruct and mimic simpler forms of this cellular ...

Apr 18, 2019

From nata de coco to computer screens: Cellulose gets a chance to shine

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers meticulously measured the optical birefringence of highly aligned cellulose nanofibers, paving the way for sharper television, computer, and smartphone screens.

Apr 18, 2019

BASF invests in quantum computing startup

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

BASF Venture Capital is joining a group of prominent investors in the Series A investment round of Zapata Computing, Inc. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zapata is developing both a powerful software platform as well as specific applic...

Apr 18, 2019

BASF invests in quantum computing startup

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

BASF Venture Capital is joining a group of prominent investors in the Series A investment round of Zapata Computing, Inc. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zapata is developing both a powerful software platform as well as specific applic...

Apr 18, 2019

Flies smell through a Gore-Tex system

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A research group led by a scientist of the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has gained important insights into the nanopores that allow the fruit fly to detect chemicals in the air, and has identified the gene responsible for th...

Apr 18, 2019

Demonstrating a weak topological insulator in bismuth iodide

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Topological insulators are one of the most exciting discoveries of the 21st century. They can be simply described as materials that conduct electricity on their surface or edge, but are insulating in their interior bulk. Their conductive propertie...

Apr 18, 2019

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