Mar 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. They catalyze reactions, form backbone and muscle and even generate movement. But is all that variety necessary? Could biology work just...
Cracking a metal 3D-printing conundrum propels the technology toward widespread application (w/video)
Mar 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have not yet gotten the additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, of metals down to a science completely. Gaps in our understanding of what happens within metal during the process have made results inconsistent. But a new breakthrough could grant an unprecedented level of mastery...
A broadly applicable nanopore sensor capable of single-molecule precision
Mar 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) While a popular hobby for many, fishing is also a pastime full of uncertainty. Each time you have something on the line, you can never be completely sure what type of fish you’ve hooked until you pull it out of the water. In a similar...
Nanotechnology could treat lymphedema
Mar 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The human body is made up of thousands of tiny lymphatic vessels that ferry white blood cells and proteins around the body, like a superhighway of the immune system. It’s remarkably efficient, but if damaged from injury or cancer treatment, the whole system starts to...
Detecting manipulations in microchips
Mar 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Security gaps exist not only in software, but also directly in hardware. Attackers might deliberately have them built in in order to attack technical applications on a large scale. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP)...
Life on distant moons
Mar 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Liquid water is one of the most important ingredients for the emergence of life as we know it on Earth. Researchers of the ORIGINS Cluster from the fields of astrophysics, astrochemistry and biochemistry have now determined in a novel, interdisciplinary collaboration the necessary properties that...
Instrument adapted from astronomy observation helps capture singular quantum interference effects
Mar 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) By adapting technology used for gamma-ray astronomy, a group of experimental researchers has found that X-ray transitions previously thought to have been unpolarized according to atomic physics, are in fact highly polarized, reports a new study published in Physical Review Letters ("Strong Polarization of a...