May 02, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Swedish researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg have developed an AI method that improves the identification of toxic chemicals – based solely on knowledge of the molecular structure. The method can contribute to better control and understanding of the ever-growing...
New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
May 01, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results...
A ‘cosmic glitch’ in gravity
May 01, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential “cosmic glitch” in the universe’s gravity, explaining its strange behaviour on a cosmic scale. The study appears in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics ("A...
Light-directed invisible ink unlocks unbreakable anti-forgery protection
May 01, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Counterfeiting of important documents like passports poses a serious and growing global security threat. Despite the use of various anti-counterfeiting technologies such as specialized inks, holograms and watermarks, the increasing sophistication of counterfeiters means that forgery remains an ongoing risk. A key vulnerability of current...
Scientists show that there is indeed an ‘entropy’ of quantum entanglement
May 01, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Bartosz Regula from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Ludovico Lami from the University of Amsterdam have shown, through probabilistic calculations, that there is indeed, as had been hypothesized, a rule of “entropy” for the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. This finding could help drive...