Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at the centers of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode. This makes it one...
Scientists make first detection of exotic ‘X’ particles in quark-gluon plasma
Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the first millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling, trillion-degree plasma of quarks and gluons — elementary particles that briefly glommed together in countless combinations before cooling and settling into more stable configurations to make the neutrons and...
Landing therapeutic genes safely in the human genome
Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Many future gene and cell therapies to treat diseases like cancer, rare genetic and other conditions could be enhanced in their efficacy, persistence, and predictability by so-called “genomic safe harbors (GSHs).” These are landing sites in the human genome able to safely accommodate new therapeutic...
New antimicrobial nanoparticle therapeutics to fight superbugs
Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared antimicrobial resistance to be among the top 10 global public health threats. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites) change over time and no longer respond to medicines, consequently infections become increasingly difficult or impossible...
A new approach to extracting information from large ensembles of sensors
Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have found a new approach for combining data acquired wirelessly from a large number of sensors. The technique is based on considering the "ensemble spectrum" of the sensors, which simply involves analyzing the radio signal received...
Harnessing noise in optical computing for AI
Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Artificial intelligence and machine learning are currently affecting our lives in a myriad of small but impactful ways. For example, AI and machine learning applications help to interpret voice commands given to our phones and electronic devices, such as Alexa, and recommend entertainment we might...
How robots learn to hike (w/video)
Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Steep sections on slippery ground, high steps, scree and forest trails full of roots: the path up the 1,098-metre-high Mount Etzel at the southern end of Lake Zurich is peppered with numerous obstacles. But ANYmal, the quadrupedal robot from the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH...
Novel hybrid nanocages for faster catalysis
Jan 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A novel hybrid ferritin nanocage with histidine residues shows 1.5 times higher metal ion uptake and improved catalytic efficiency for alcohol production, find researchers from Tokyo Tech in a new study. Their findings suggest that hybrid bio-nanocages could effectively catalyze reactions to yield industrially important...