Month: July 2020

Spectroscopy is the use of light to analyze physical objects and biological samples. Different kinds of light can provide different kinds of information. Vacuum ultraviolet light is useful as it can aid people in a broad range of research fields, but generation of that light has been difficult and expensive. Researchers created a new device

Dr. Herbert asks what if our genome was far smarter than everyone previously believed? What if in the many DNA repeat elements lay the foundation for building a novel type of biocomputer? This approach would enable calculations performed with self-renewing wetware rather than stone-cold hardware, opening the door to logic circuits based on DNA that

IMAGE: A team from Purdue University developed self-powered wearable triboelectric nanogenerators with polyvinyl alcohol-based contact layers for monitoring cardiovascular health. view more  Credit: Wenzhuo Wu/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An invention may turn one of the most widely used materials for biomedical applications into wearable devices to help monitor heart health. A team from Purdue

IMAGE: A close-up view of a handful of nanostars used to create a new type of cancer diagnostic. view more  Credit: Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the need for labeling or target

IMAGE: Illustration of the University of Pittsburgh’s CANELa lab’s nanocluster modeling that was featured on the cover of the journal Dalton Transactions. Image reproduced with permission of Mpourmpakis and Cowan…. view more  Credit: Mpourmpakis and Cowan A field studying something very small is becoming very big: In the last decade, the field of nanoparticle research has

IMAGE: The photonic tensor core performs vector-matrix multiplications by utilizing the efficient interaction of light at different wavelengths with multistate photonic phase change memories. view more  Credit: Mario Miscuglio WASHINGTON, July 21, 2020 — Machine learning performed by neural networks is a popular approach to developing artificial intelligence, as researchers aim to replicate brain functionalities for

Scientists searching for better diagnostic tests, drugs or vaccines against a virus must all begin by deciphering the structure of that virus. And when the virus in question is highly pathogenic, investigating, testing or developing these can be quite dangerous. Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv, Staff Scientist Dr. Shirley Shulman Daube, Dr. Ohad Vonshak, a former research

IMAGE: Modelling nanoscale glass: Molecular dynamics model of 3-nm-thick glass interface on a crystalline substrate view more  Credit: RMIT/UOW There’s more to glass than meets the eye. Glasses, which are disordered materials with no long-range chemical order, have some mysterious properties that have remained enigmatic for several decades. Amongst these are the anomalous vibrational states that

HOUSTON – (July 20, 2020) – A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants. Think of the new strategy developed at Rice University as “wrap, trap and zap.” The labs of Rice environmental scientist Pedro Alvarez and Yalei Zhang, a professor of environmental engineering at

IMAGE: The novel humanoid hand design is a soft-hard hybrid flexible gripper that can generate larger grasping force than a traditional pure soft hand. view more  Credit: Credit: Changyong Cao EAST LANSING, Mich. – Need a robot with a soft touch? A team of Michigan State University engineers has designed and developed a novel humanoid hand

In addition to responding to electrical and chemical stimuli, many of the body’s neural cells can also respond to mechanical effects, such as pressure or vibration. But these responses have been more difficult for researchers to study, because there has been no easily controllable method for inducing such mechanical stimulation of the cells. Now, researchers

IMAGE: The protein complex to be examined (yellow) is attached to the smart nanosheet via a nickel complex with the aid of a marker (red chain with pentagons). Unwanted proteins (gray)… view more  Credit: Andrey Turchanin/Zian Tang FRANKFURT/JENA. An interdisciplinary team from Frankfurt and Jena has developed a kind of bait with which to fish protein

IMAGE: The circular orbit of the charged electron and the spin are locked together like gears due to the very strong attraction in the spin-orbit coupling. view more  Credit: Takashi Kobayashi A group of international scientists have substantially lengthened the duration of time that a spin-orbit qubit in silicon can retain quantum information for, opening up

IMAGE: Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Carnegie Mellon University have designed new solid electrolytes that light the path to wider electrification of transportation. view more  Credit: Courtesy of Jinsoo Kim In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric vehicles (EVs) for hundreds of miles on a single charge, scientists have endeavored to replace

IMAGE: We can now ‘see’ the twist of a single nanoparticle, floating freely in a liquid. view more  Credit: Ventsislav Valev and Joel Collins For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterised in a lab, taking scientists one vital step closer to a time when medicines will be produced and

IMAGE: Hassan Beyzavi, University of Arkansas. view more  Credit: University Relations, University of Arkansas Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a new nano drug candidate that kills triple negative breast cancer cells. Triple negative breast cancer is one of the most aggressive and fatal types of breast cancer. The research will help clinicians target