Nov 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers’ recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding the black hole. Matter is heated to millions of degrees as it is pulled toward a black hole. This...
Sustainability claims behind booming food technologies lack evidence
Nov 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) New analysis reveals significant gaps in evidence related to the sustainability claims of new food technologies such as vertical farming, blockchain, food deliveries and plant-based alternatives to animal products. Money is pouring into food tech. But despite rosy claims, food innovations are rarely empirically assessed...
Advances and challenges in molecular nanoscience
Nov 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale —quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density information storage, etc.— requires those magnetic molecules that are placed on the surface to preserve their structure, functionality and properties. Now,...
A new quantum component made from graphene
Nov 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Less than 20 years ago, Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim first created two-dimensional crystals consisting of just one layer of carbon atoms. Known as graphene, this material has had quite a career since then. Due to its exceptional strength, graphene is used today to reinforce...
Artificial intelligence makes enzyme engineering easy
Nov 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) You can't expect a pharmaceutical scientist to switch labs to the facilities available in a television studio and expect the same research output. Enzymes behave exactly the same. But now, in a study recently published in ACS Synthetic Biology ("Logistic Regression-guided Identification of Cofactor Specificity-contributing...
Using bioengineered yeast to feed humans off-Earth
Nov 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Take a common form of yeast, a 3D printer, and some clever science, and what do you have? A versatile and nutritious food system for tomorrow’s discerning space traveller. In a new Nature Communications paper ("Harnessing bioengineered microbes as a versatile platform for space nutrition"),...
Exploring the physics of emergence
Nov 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new short volume by veteran science writer George Musser covers the concept of emergence in two domains of physics: the physics of materials (known as condensed matter) and the physics of space and time (known as quantum gravity). Both areas have gone through a...