In the recent times, nanokirigami has started to emerge as an area of research; the technology is based on the ancient arts of origami, which involves making three-dimensional (3D) shapes by folding...
Jul 9, 2018
Physicists have discovered that superconducting nanowires made of MoGe alloy undergo quantum phase transitions from a superconducting to a normal metal state when placed in an increasing magnetic field at low temperatures. The study is the first t...
Jul 9, 2018
Researchers are designing nano-sized quantum heat engines to explore whether they may be able to outperform classical heat engines in terms of power and efficiency.
Jul 9, 2018
Programming the body's immune system to attack cancer cells has had promising results for treating blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. This tactic has proven more challenging for solid tumors such as breast or lung cancers, but MIT resear...
Jul 9, 2018
Drugs carried in cellular “backpacks” help T cells to destroy tumors.
Jul 9, 2018
Researchers are designing nano-sized quantum heat engines to explore whether they may be able to outperform classical heat engines in terms of power and efficiency.
Jul 9, 2018
The reach and capacity in today’s fiber optical transmission links are limited by the accumulation of noise, originating from optical amplifiers in the link, and by the signal distortion from nonlinear effects in the transmission fiber. In this de...
Jul 9, 2018
All matter is composed of atoms, which are too small to see without powerful modern instruments including electron microscopes. The same electrons that form images of atomic structures can also be used to move atoms in materials. This technique of...
Jul 9, 2018
The same electrons that form images of atomic structures can also be used to move atoms in materials. This technique of single-atom manipulation is now able to achieve nearly perfect control over the movement of individual silicon impurity atoms w...
Jul 9, 2018
A multidisciplinary team has developed a high-tech fix that utilizes metal nanostructures to increase the fluorescence intensity by 100 times in these diagnostic tests. It's a cheap and easy solution to what has previously been a vexing diagnostic...
Jul 9, 2018
