Jun 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Pangolins are fascinating creatures. This animal looks like a walking pine cone, as it is the only mammal completely covered with hard scales. The scales are made of keratin, just like our hair and nails. The scales overlap and are directly connected to the underlying...
Researchers have 3D printed the world’s smallest wineglass using a new technique
Jun 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have 3D-printed the world’s smallest wine glass—nearly indistinguishable with the naked eye—with a rim smaller than the width of a human hair. But the idea wasn’t to cater to extremely light drinkers. Rather, the glass was printed to demonstrate a new simplified technique for...
Open-source software to speed up quantum research
Jun 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Within a few decades, quantum technology is expected to become a key technology in areas such as health, communication, defence and energy. The power and potential of the technology lie in the odd and very special properties of quantum particles. Of particular interest to researchers...
Observations of high-mass star seeds defy models
Jun 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have mapped 39 interstellar clouds where high-mass stars are expected to form. This large data set shows that the accepted model of low-mass star formation needs to be expanded to explain the formation of high-mass stars. This suggests the formation of high-mass stars is...
New research on self-locking light sources presents opportunities for quantum technologies
Jun 19, 2023 (Nanowerk News) In a paper published in Nature Communications ("Asynchronous locking in metamaterials of fluids of light and sound"), researchers from the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin, Germany, and the Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, demonstrated that light emitters with different resonance frequencies can asynchronously self-lock their relative...