Oct 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Superconductors are materials that offer zero electric resistance to the flow of current on being cooled down below a certain critical temperature. Typically, superconductors have a very low critical temperature, close to absolute zero. However, a class of superconductors, known as high-temperature superconductors (HTS) have...
3D printing neural cells shows promise for repairing brain injuries
Oct 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A breakthrough technique developed by University of Oxford researchers could one day provide tailored repairs for those who suffer brain injuries. The researchers demonstrated for the first time that neural cells can be 3D printed to mimic the architecture of the cerebral cortex. These results...
Machine learning used to probe the building blocks of shapes
Oct 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Mathematicians from Imperial College London and the University of Nottingham have, for the first time, used machine learning to expand and accelerate work identifying ‘atomic shapes’ that form the basic pieces of geometry in higher dimensions. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications ("Machine...
Molecular knots – left and right: How molecules form knots
Oct 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Plastics or DNA: Many molecules are so long that they can form knots, much like tying shoes. Whereas it is still disputed whether right- and left-handed people prefer to tie their knots in different directions, the knotting habits of molecules are now made much clearer....
Insect cyborgs: Towards precision movement
Oct 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Insect cyborgs may sound like something straight out of the movies, but hybrid insect computer robots, as they are scientifically called, could pioneer a new future for robotics. It involves using electrical stimuli to control an insect’s movement. Now, an international research group has conducted...
AI designs new robot from scratch in seconds (w/video)
Oct 04, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team led by Northwestern University researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. Key Takeaways Team develops a pioneering AI capable of designing functional robots from scratch. The AI created a walking robot within seconds,...
Light-propelled bacteria power highly efficient biohybrid microbots
Oct 04, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Microscopic robots smaller than the width of a human hair could one day travel through the human bloodstream to deliver targeted drugs or perform minimally invasive procedures. Creating robots at such small scales brings enormous engineering challenges, but researchers are increasingly looking to biology for...
Wearable sensor system can track antibiotic levels in real time
Oct 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have innovatively melded microneedle technology with nanoscale sensors, devising a wearable patch for real-time monitoring of the antibiotic vancomycin, crucial in battling severe bacterial infections. Key Takeaways This breakthrough addresses the clinical challenge of maintaining vancomycin within a therapeutic window, minimizing the delay inherent...
Bursts of star formation explain mysterious brightness at cosmic dawn
Oct 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature to have formed so soon after the Big Bang. It would be like an infant...
How quantum light sees quantum sound
Oct 03, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of East Anglia have proposed a new way of using quantum light to ‘see’ quantum sound. A new paper published in Physical Review Letters ("Phonon Signatures in Photon Correlations") reveals the quantum-mechanical interplay between vibrations and particles of light, known as...