Day: July 15, 2024

Jul 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Quantum computers have to be kept cold to function — very cold. These machines generally run at “just a few degrees above absolute zero,” says Yoseob Yoon, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University. “It’s colder than outer space.” Yoon’s research focuses...

Jul 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have grown into the large-scale structures we can see through our telescopes in the night sky: galaxies like our own Milky Way, clusters of galaxies, and...

Jul 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) RNA therapy with polymer nanoparticles is considered a promising approach for the treatment of various illnesses. It involves the use of polymers as “nanocarriers” to transport RNA drugs precisely to the correct target cells. Manufacturing such polymers, however, has proven to be complex and difficult....

Jul 15, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The quest to harness the power of quantum mechanics for practical applications has been a driving force in physics and materials science. At the heart of this endeavor lies the challenge of creating and manipulating quantum systems that can operate reliably at room temperature. While...

Jul 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists in Konstanz (Germany) have discovered a way to imprint a previously unseen geometrical form of chirality onto electrons. The electrons are shaped into chiral coils of mass and charge. Such engineered elementary particles may open new research avenues in fundamental physics and electron microscopy....

Jul 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) 137 countries around the world have signed a "net-zero" climate change agreement to end fossil fuel use and achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050. Hydrogen is being touted as the next green energy source because it emits only water and oxygen when utilized as an...