Voyager and Lockheed Martin have found a partner to design astronaut facilities for their space station. Hilton will develop suites and sleeping quarters for Starlab, CNBC reports. Under the partnership, Hilton and Voyager will also look at market...
Sep 19, 2022
Researchers have found a way to manipulate light at the nanoscale that breaks the Moss rule, which describes a trade-off between a material's optical absorption and how it refracts light.
Sep 19, 2022
Few fields invite as much unbridled hype as quantum computing. Most people’s understanding of quantum physics extends to the fact that it is unpredictable, powerful, and almost existentially strange. A few years ago, I provided IEEE Spectrum an up...
Sep 19, 2022
Ammonia is a carbon-neutral energy carrier and potential transportation fuel applied extensively in fertilizers, plastics, and explosives. Conventional ammonia synthesis methods rely primarily on the high-temperature and high-pressure Haber–Bosch ...
Sep 19, 2022
Using a gas-aggregation technique, two Pt-RE alloys in the nanoparticle form with even sizes, PtxY and PtxGd (x specifies changing stoichiometry or poorly characterized alloy structure), have been made ready from cluster sources. Their specific ac...
Sep 19, 2022
In a paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, fluorescence quenching was used to detect nitrite ions in processed meat products using a sensing system centered on doped carbon quantum dots. Using this sensor system wi...
Sep 19, 2022
Deterministic molecular stacking of two-dimensional substances with regulated symmetry remains a major challenge. A recent study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters addresses this issue by reporting a 30° twisted stacking of two...
Sep 19, 2022
A recent study published in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces presents a surfactant-free approach for dip coating cellulose nanocrystals utilizing hydrotropes.
Sep 19, 2022
Engineers at EPFL have found a way to insert carbon nanotubes into photosynthetic bacteria, which greatly improves their electrical output. They even pass these nanotubes down to their offspring when they divide, through what the team calls “inher...
Sep 19, 2022
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common—and lethal—forms of childhood cancer, accounting for 15 percent of pediatric cancer deaths yearly. (Despite the name, neuroblastoma is not a form of brain cancer; it typically consists of tumors found in the...
Sep 18, 2022
