Sep 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that water in a one-molecule layer acts like neither a liquid nor a solid, and that it becomes highly conductive at high pressures. Much is known about how ‘bulk water’ behaves: it expands when it freezes, and...
Rehabilitating spinal cord injury and stroke with graphene and gaming
Sep 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Few human injuries are as catastrophic as those to the spine. An accident, disease or act of violence affecting the spine can result in poor function – even paralysis – almost anywhere in the body. The spinal column is enormously complex, with limited capacity for...
Scientists discover super-Earth likely covered in water
Sep 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers supported in part by the EU-funded NewWorlds and SACCRED projects has discovered a planet outside our solar system that is believed to be an ocean planet. Called TOI-1452 b, the exoplanet is slightly bigger in size and mass than Earth....
Even smartest AI models don’t match human visual processing
Sep 17, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) don’t see objects the way humans do – using configural shape perception – and that could be dangerous in real-world artificial intelligence (AI) applications, says Professor James Elder, co-author of a York University study. Published in the journal iScience ("Deep...