Month: March 2023

Mar 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known – was one of the first observations made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in June 2022. Webb shows the star, WR 124, in unprecedented...

Mar 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and their collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have developed...

Mar 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjustments. Most robots cannot. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created soft robots that can seamlessly shift from walking to swimming, for example, or...

Mar 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Light-driven chemical reactions so far were usually conducted with large amounts of solvents that are often toxic. By combining them with mechanical energy in ball mills, Professor Lars Borchardt’s team at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry I at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has succeeded in...

Mar 14, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Kanazawa University report in ACS Nano ("Dynamics of Target DNA Binding and Cleavage by Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 as Revealed by High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy") how high-speed atomic force microscopy can be used to study the biomolecular mechanisms underlying gene editing. The DNA of...

Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have transformed single-cell algae into functional perovskite materials. The team led by scientists at the B CUBE – Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TU Dresden converted mineral shells of algae into lead halide perovskites with tunable physical properties. The new perovskites have unique nano-architectures...

Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists, led by researchers at Lancaster University, have developed a method to 3D print flexible electronics using the conducting polymer polypyrrole, and they have shown that it is possible to directly print these electrical structures on or in living organisms (roundworms). Their...

Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) How does an iPhone predict the next word you’re going to type in your messages? The technology behind this, and also at the core of many AI applications, is called a transformer; a deep-learning algorithm that detects patterns in datasets. Now, researchers at EPFL and...

Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A ‘best practice’ protocol for researchers developing piezoelectric materials has been developed by scientists – a first in this cutting-edge field of technology. The protocol was developed by an international team led by physicists at University of Bath in response to findings that experimental reports...

Mar 13, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a paper published in the journal Science Advances ("In situ amplification of spin echoes within a kinetic inductance parametric amplifier"), Associate Professor Jarryd Pla and his team from UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, together with colleague Scientia Professor Andrea Morello, described a...