The increasing use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—and a proposal in the European Union to ban the entire class of materials—highlights the need for an updated and standardized approach to assess human and environmental impacts of CNTs and products tha...
Dec 12, 2023
Toby Cubitt explains why algorithms are vital for the development of quantum computers The post Toby Cubitt: why algorithms will speed up applications of quantum computers appeared first on Physics World.
Dec 12, 2023
Protein-splitting enzymes play an important role in many physiological processes. Such proteases are generally present in an inactive state, only becoming activated under certain conditions. Some are linked to diseases like infections or cancer, m...
Dec 12, 2023
A research group from the Institute for Future Materials and Systems at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a new 'one-pot' method to make nanosheets using less rare metals. Their discovery should allow for the energy-making process...
Dec 12, 2023
Have you ever wondered how water boils in an electric kettle- Most people may think electricity simply heats up the metal coil inside the kettle, which then transfers the heat to the water. But electricity can do more than that. Heat can be genera...
Dec 12, 2023
Researchers from Korea's Seoul National University and Sungkyunkwan University recently developed a method to grow GaN LED arrays on a flexible graphene layer. The so-called microdisk arrays exhibit excellent crystallinity with a uniform in-p...
Dec 12, 2023
A DARPA program is claiming a major breakthrough in quantum computing. The Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has created the world's first quantum circuit with logical quantum bits (qubits)
Dec 12, 2023
A team of experts has developed a type of nanomaterial which can kill both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Find out more about it in this article.
Dec 12, 2023
When you look up at the sky and see clouds of wondrous shapes, or struggle to peer through dense, hazy fog, you're seeing the results of 'Mie scattering', which is what happens with light interacts with particles of a certain size. ...
Dec 12, 2023
Neuromorphic computing has so far tried to mimic the synapses between neurons in the brain. But a new approach instead aims to act like dendrites, the spindly structures that branch out from the nucleus of a neuron like the roots of a tree. Dendri...
Dec 11, 2023
