Day: June 16, 2022

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When players try to solve word games, they attempt to put together clues to find the solution. Sure, it helps to have a strong vocabulary, but finding the right answers to those puzzles is as much about logic and strategy as it is about being...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from bioreactors, offering the potential for high quality, wide-scale production of stem cells at a lower cost (Bioresources and Bioprocessing, "A modular 3D printed microfluidic system: a potential solution for continuous cell harvesting...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Label-free, non-invasive, and quantitative monitoring of cellular activities is crucial for understanding various biological processes and the response of cells to therapeutic drugs. However, existing approaches are often hindered by their multiple time-consuming preparation steps, complicated apparatus, and incompatibility which may interfere with the cells...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The semiconductor industry has been growing steadily ever since its first steps in the mid-twentieth century and, thanks to the high-speed information and communication technologies it enabled, it has given way to the rapid digitalization of society. Today, in line with a tight global energy...

Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Biomedicines are produced by living cells and are used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases among other things. One challenge is that the medicines are very expensive to produce, something that limits global access. Now researchers from Chalmers have invented a material that uses electrical...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The development of efficient cooling technology based on environmentally friendly and biobased materials is crucial to our day-to-day activities, such as food preservation, air conditioning, refrigeration, large-scale computation as well as human comfort. At present, traditional vapor-compression technology is commonly used for cooling. However, it...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Cooks throughout Asia put moist bamboo chopsticks into oil in a frying pan, watching the bubbles that form and listening to the sizzling sound they make as they burst to gauge the perfect cooking temperature. An international team of researchers used the technique as inspiration...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers analyzing data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars -- the superdense remnant of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. Images from the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) indicate...

Jun 16, 2022 (Nanowerk News) To develop new drugs and vaccines, detailed knowledge about nature’s smallest biological building blocks – the biomolecules – is required. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a groundbreaking microscopy technique that allows proteins, DNA and other tiny biological particles to be...

Jun 15, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Experts at the University of Bristol have discovered that the scales on moth wings act as excellent sound absorbers even when placed on an artificial surface. The researchers, which recently discovered that moth wings offer acoustic protection from bat echolocation calls, have been studying whether...