Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like “Dune.” Now, a Rutgers research study has provided a new explanation of how dunes can form even on a surface as icy...
New method allows robot vision to identify occluded objects
Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Robotic vision has come a long way, reaching a level of sophistication with applications in complex and demanding tasks, such as autonomous driving and object manipulation. However, it still struggles to identify individual objects in cluttered scenes where some objects are partially or completely hidden...
Carbon black nanoparticles prove effective against the yellow fever mosquito
Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Before being accidentally introduced to the New World by the 16th century slave trade, the yellow fever mosquito was a species native only to Africa. Highly adaptable, it has since become an invasive species in North America, but researchers at The Ohio State University may...
Concerned your smartphone is spying on you?
Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Ever noticed online ads following you that are eerily close to something you’ve recently talked about with your friends and family? Microphones are embedded into nearly everything today, from our phones, watches, and televisions to voice assistants, and they are always listening to you. Computers...
Guiding a superconducting future with graphene quantum magic
Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Superconductors are materials that conduct electrical current with practically no electrical resistance at all. This ability makes them extremely interesting and attractive for a plethora of applications such as loss-less power cables, electric motors and generators, as well as powerful electromagnets that can be used...
Training robots to solve problems like a human would
Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) “Robots that work in human environments need to be adaptable to the fact that humans are unique, and that we might all solve the same task in a different way. An important area in robot development, therefore, is to teach robots how to work alongside...
Near-infrared responsive nanoassemblies for combined breast cancer therapy
Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and South China University of Technology collaborated to develop a near-infrared (NIR)-driven nanoassemblies with size and charge dual transformation for the combination of photocontrolled chemotherapy and immunotherapy in...
New 3D-printing approach melds solids, liquids
Apr 19, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Imagine a future in which you could 3D-print an entire robot or stretchy, electronic medical device with the press of a button—no tedious hours spent assembling parts by hand. That possibility may be closer than ever thanks to a recent advancement in 3D-printing technology led...