Plant diseases destroy up to 40% of global food crops, threatening food security and agricultural sustainability. While plants naturally resist many diseases, their defenses often fail against aggressive pathogens. Current solutions rely heavily o...
Dec 4, 2024
The surfaces that cells come into contact with can influence how the cells grow, function, and communicate — shaping metabolism and even cellular health. Now, engineering researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a platf...
Dec 4, 2024
Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions – could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research? Controlling matter at the atomic level has taken a major step forward, thanks to groundbreaking nanotechnolog...
Dec 4, 2024
Researchers at TU Delft have discovered that E. coli bacteria can synchronise their movements, creating order in seemingly random biological systems. By trapping individual bacteria in micro-engineered circular cavities and coupling these cavities...
Dec 4, 2024
The nanorobots developed by Dr Minh Luu and Dr Shelley Wickham could be used to deploy targeted cancer drugs, make futuristic materials that respond to their environments and find uses in creating energy-efficient signal processing.
Dec 4, 2024
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Iowa State University have demonstrated a new technique for self-assembling electronic devices. The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and could pave the way for se...
Dec 4, 2024
Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on new electron microscopy techniques to allow the imaging of chemical react...
Dec 4, 2024
Sparc Technologies has announced the results of initial test work in water-based acrylic epoxy coatings. The testing has reportedly demonstrated significant corrosion performance improvements through the incorporation of low dosages of carefully s...
Dec 3, 2024
Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of layered materials exhibiting unique optoelectronic properties that could be leveraged to develop transistors, sensors and other nanoelectronics. Despite their advantages, creati...
Dec 3, 2024
The surfaces that cells come into contact with can influence how the cells grow, function, and communicate—shaping metabolism and even cellular health. Now, engineering researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a platfor...
Dec 3, 2024
