Jul 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The echoes of light from jets launched from black holes offers a new way to pin down the distance to these exotic objects and to study a largely unobserved population in the centre of the Galaxy. It could also even help determine the rate of...
‘Sandwich’ discovery offers new explanation for planet formation
Jul 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have made a new discovery on how small planets might form. Researchers at the University of Warwick investigated the ‘birth environment’ of planets – areas of gas and dust that swirl around a central star – known as the protoplanetary disc. They discovered a...
Advancements in multicolored afterglow materials for enhanced information security
Jul 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The utilization of photoluminescent substances within the realm of information security has increasingly garnered interest. A range of anti-counterfeiting modalities, inclusive of watermarks, two-dimensional codes, and luminescent printing, have been innovatively developed. Nonetheless, the prevalent usage of monochromatic fluorescent materials has presented a considerable challenge...
Scientists use accoutic tweezers for targeted cancer therapy
Jul 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Acoustic tweezers can control target movement through the interaction of momentum between an acoustic wave and an object. Due to their high tissue penetrability and strong acoustic radiation force, such tweezers overcome the limitations of optical and magnetic tweezers, thus making them suitable for in-vivo...
New ferroelectric material could give robots muscles
Jul 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new type of ferroelectric polymer that is exceptionally good at converting electrical energy into mechanical strain holds promise as a high-performance motion controller or “actuator” with great potential for applications in medical devices, advanced robotics, and precision positioning systems, according to a team of...
Researchers create packaging tray that warns of contamination before food is unwrapped
Jul 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at McMaster University have created a new packaging tray that can signal when Salmonella or other dangerous pathogens are present in packages of raw or cooked food such as chicken. The new technology will enable producers, retailers and consumers to tell in real time...
Growing bio-inspired polymer brains for artificial neural networks
Jul 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The development of neural networks to create artificial intelligence in computers was originally inspired by how biological systems work. These neuromorphic networks, however, run on hardware that looks nothing like a biological brain, which limits performance. Now, researchers from Osaka University and Hokkaido University plan...