Apr 06, 2020 (Nanowerk News) A finding by UC Riverside bioengineers could hasten development of lab-grown blood vessels and other tissues to replace and regenerate damaged tissues in human patients. The results are published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces ("Angiogenic Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels with Curcumin-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Tissue...
Hubble probes extreme weather on ultra-hot Jupiters
Apr 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing to the Calypso party song "Hot, Hot, Hot." That's because these bloated Jupiter-sized worlds are so precariously close to their parent star they are being...
Opening up the electromagnetic spectrum (w/video)
Apr 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the labs of Lan Yang, the Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor, and Xuan “Silvia” Zhang, associate professor, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, have developed the first fully integrated parity-time symmetric electronic system. And it...
Optical control of photons as the key to new technologies
Apr 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Physicists from Paderborn University have developed a novel concept for generating individual photons – tiny particles of light that make up electromagnetic radiation – with tailored properties, the controlled manipulation of which is of fundamental importance for photonic quantum technologies. The findings have now been...
‘Robot scientist’ Eve finds that less than one third of scientific results are reproducible
Apr 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have used a combination of automated text analysis and the ‘robot scientist’ Eve to semi-automate the process of reproducing research results. The problem of lack of reproducibility is one of the biggest crises facing modern science. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge,...
Nanotechnology versus viruses
Apr 06, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Viruses are highly functional nanocarriers that nature has perfected over millions of years. They are programmed to deliver nucleic acids with unprecedented efficiency and as a result they can infect all types of life forms from plants over animals to humans. You might think that...
Cutting-edge research into cool plasma brings sci-fi healing closer
Apr 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) From Star Trek to Wolverine and Dune, instant wound healing has been a show-stealer in many science-fiction and fantasy films. While science points to plasma medicine as a new way to increase the rate of healing or alter or sterilise heat-sensitive tissue, so far the...
Nanopores in microparticles from treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide
Apr 06, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide. What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice University lab’s newly discovered chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an...
Artificial intelligence as software developer
Apr 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In February, Google DeepMind launched an artificial intelligence computer program that acts as a software developer. The algorithm has been named AlphaCode. “AlphaCode can be compared to Google Translate, but instead of translating between two natural languages, such as Norwegian and English, AlphaCode can translate...
Scientists connect the dots between Galilean moon, auroral emissions on Jupiter
Apr 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) On November 8, 2020, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, to its auroral footprint on the gas giant. Southwest Research Institute scientists used data from Juno’s payload to study the particle population traveling along the...