Day: March 21, 2022

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The increased focus on face masks over the past 2 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a flurry of research not only on how to make these masks more effective and comfortable for the wearer but also on how to provide them...

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new computational approach developed by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center successfully combines data from parallel gene-expression profiling methods to create spatial maps of a given tissue at single-cell resolution. The resulting maps can provide unique biological insights into the...

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Astronomy’s newest mystery objects, odd radio circles or ORCs, have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world’s most capable radio telescopes. First revealed by the ASKAP radio telescope, owned and operated by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, odd...

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) What tasks need to be done today, and which is the most urgent? People have to constantly set priorities in their daily life. Bacteria are no different: They too must prioritize when combating viruses with CRISPR. However, it was unclear how this prioritization takes place....

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study shows that a form of optical tweezers can be used to detect small microplastics from tires and road wear, that previously has been too small to detect. The results can be used to develop more sustainable tires that produce less pollution. Tire...

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances ("Silicon cuboid nanoantenna with simultaneous large Purcell factor for electric dipole, magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole emission"), researchers from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, discuss silicon cuboid nanoantenna with simultaneous large Purcell factor for electric dipole,...

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Whether it's photovoltaics or fusion, sooner or later, human civilization must turn to renewable energies. This is deemed inevitable considering the ever-growing energy demands of humanity and the finite nature of fossil fuels. As such, much research has been pursued in order to develop alternative...

Mar 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a method to effectively produce and extract plant-based oils from a type of common microalgae. As the oils produced from the microalgae are edible and have superior properties as those found...