The photos from a tiny IR hyperspectral camera, taken from a nanosatellite that has now reached space, could provide information useful for managing the effects of climate change. The Reaktor Hello World nanosatellite was launched into space Nov. ...
Dec 24, 2018
Nanoelectronic hub imec, Ghent University, and contact lens manufacturer SEED Co. have developed a contact lens with an integrated LED light as part of a novel wearable device. The device also includes an ultrathin silicon microchip, a radio fre...
Dec 24, 2018
Proteins have now been designed in the lab to zip together in much the same way that DNA molecules zip up to form a double helix. The technique, whose development was led by University of Washington S...
Dec 22, 2018
Using a plasmonic nanostructure, researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have devised a way to hide information on the surface of a material, so that it is only visible through an IR lens or camera that is tuned to the correct IR ba...
Dec 22, 2018
A team of researchers from Russia, Great Britain, Japan and Italy has created a graphene-based terahertz detector. The study was published in Nature Communications.
Dec 21, 2018
A groundbreaking Finnish nanosatellite has recently been launched into space fitted with the world’s smallest infrared hyperspectral camera. The photos with infrared data taken from the...
Dec 21, 2018
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering have developed an inexpensive, portable platform that can detect motile parasites in bodily fluids rapidly. Using the new platform, more than 3 milliliters (ml) of a bodily fluid sample c...
Dec 21, 2018
Boron nitride nanotubes truly like to stick together. They would remain stuck if they weren’t very useful. But since they are beneficial, Rice University chemists have established that...
Dec 21, 2018
Researchers have created a graphene-based terahertz detector. Their device doubles as a sensitive detector and a spectrometer operating in the terahertz range, and it?s also a tool for studying plasmons in two-dimensional materials. All of these t...
Dec 21, 2018
Coming up with potent anti-cancer drugs is one thing, delivering them to the site of a tumor inside the body is very much another. With a complicated organism guarded by a highly evolved immune system to navigate, getting these particles t...
Dec 21, 2018
