May 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For the first time, researchers have managed to use GPT1, precursor to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, to translate MRI imagery into text in an effort to understand what someone is thinking. This recent breakthrough allowed researchers at the University of Texas at Austin to “read”...
Study demonstrates that heat can freeze fluids in the quantum world
May 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) At the beginning of springtime, snow and ice start to melt as temperatures rise. This phenomenon exemplifies the transition from solid to liquid when thermal energy is added to matter. We can easily observe this in nature. Continued heat will cause the liquid to evaporate,...
Researchers build bee robot that can twist
May 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A robotic bee that can fly fully in all directions has been developed by Washington State University researchers. With four wings made out of carbon fiber and mylar as well as four light-weight actuators to control each wing, the Bee++ prototype is the first to...
Harnessing machine learning in designing soft materials
May 23, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft materials such as polymers, rubbers, and hydrogels play a significant role in your everyday life. From your car's tires to the elastic in your favorite loungewear, from cutting-edge flexible electronics to wearable technology like electronic tattoos — these versatile materials are everywhere. However, to...
Machine Intelligence for designing molecules and reaction pathways
May 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers in Japan have developed a machine learning process that simultaneously designs new molecules and suggests the chemical reactions to make them. The team, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo, published their results in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials:...
A sticky colloidal sciences question now solved
May 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The soft, solid-like properties of colloidal gels are essential in fields such as food and medical applications, but how these properties manifest themselves is a long-standing mystery. Until now, it was believed that the solid nature of gels emerges through glass formation. In a study...
‘Light shining through a wall’ experiment ALPS starts searching for dark matter
May 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The world’s most sensitive model-independent experiment to search for particularly light particles, of which dark matter might be composed, starts today at DESY in the form of the ‘light shining through a wall’ experiment ALPS II. Scientific calculations predict that this ominous form of matter...
Speed up drug development with AI to create stable and therapeutically effective medication
May 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The physicist Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko of the University of Luxembourg, has received a “Proof of Concept” Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project “MACHINE-DRUG". The project aims to discover ideal drug formulations with unique machine learning algorithms, so that the drugs are...
Designing synthetic receptors for precise cell control
May 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Biosensors are artificial molecular complexes designed to detect the presence of target chemicals or even biomolecules. Consequently, biosensors have become important in diagnostics and synthetic cell biology. However, typical methods for engineering biosensors focus on optimizing the interactions between static binding surfaces, and current biosensor...
A flexible near-infrared light-writing multicolor hydrogel system for on-demand information display
May 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers, headed by Professor CHEN Tao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has engineered a versatile, near-infrared light-activated, multicolor hydrogel system that can display data on demand. This breakthrough was published in...