Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Developed by Cornell’s Smart Computer Interfaces for Future Interactions (SciFi) Lab, the low-power, wearable interface requires just a few minutes of user training data before it will recognize commands and can be run on a smartphone, researchers said. Zhang is the lead author of “EchoSpeech:...
Webb reveals never-before-seen details in Cassiopeia A
Apr 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provides one stunning example. It shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), created...
A new quantum approach to solve electronic structures of complex materials
Apr 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) If you know the atoms that compose a particular molecule or solid material, the interactions between those atoms can be determined computationally, by solving quantum mechanical equations — at least, if the molecule is small and simple. However, solving these equations, critical for fields from...
Scientists use peroxide to peer into metal oxide reactions
Apr 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Binghamton University led research partnering with the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory—to get a better look at how peroxides on the surface of copper oxide promote the oxidation of...
Meta-optics shows physical processes in the attosecond range
Apr 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Developed at Harvard, and successfully tested at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), a revolutionary new meta-optics for microscopes with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution has proven its functional ability in laboratory tests at the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz. Microscopes using...
Simple but revolutionary modular organoids (w/video)
Apr 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team led by Masaya Hagiwara of RIKEN national science institute in Japan has developed an ingenious device, using layers of hydrogels in a cube-like structure, that allows researchers to construct complex 3D organoids without using elaborate techniques. The group also recently demonstrated the ability...
Two-organ chip to answer fatty liver questions
Apr 07, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new chip that holds different cell types in tiny, interconnected chambers could allow scientists to better understand the physiological and disease interactions between organs. The integrated-gut-liver-on-a-chip (iGLC) platform was designed by scientists at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), to improve understanding...
Intense lasers magnetize solids within attoseconds
Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Intense laser light can induce magnetism in solids on the attosecond scale – the fastest magnetic response to date. That is the finding reached by theoreticians at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany, who used advanced simulations...
Diamond nanostructures facilitate an important step towards the quantum internet
Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Diamond material is of great importance for future technologies such as the quantum internet. Special defect centers can be used as quantum bits (qubits) and emit single light particles that are referred to as single photons. To enable data transmission with feasible communication rates over...
Technology advance paves way to more realistic 3D holograms for virtual reality and more
Apr 06, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a new way to create dynamic ultrahigh-density 3D holographic projections. By packing more details into a 3D image, this type of hologram could enable realistic representations of the world around us for use in virtual reality and other applications. “A 3D hologram...