Month: March 2025

Mar 21, 2025 The mysterious force called Dark Energy, which drives the expansion of the Universe, might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space. (Nanowerk News) New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration hint that dark energy, widely thought to...

Mar 21, 2025 Astronomers found a spiral galaxy with jets six million light-years long, hinting our Milky Way could one day unleash radiation powerful enough to threaten life on Earth. (Nanowerk News) A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to...

Mar 21, 2025 Researchers demonstrate orbital hybridization in graphene-based quantum dots, revealing how anisotropic confinement influences electronic states at the atomic scale. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Professor Sun Qing-Feng, in collaboration with Professor He Lin’s group from Beijing Normal University, has achieved orbital hybridization in graphene-based artificial...

Mar 21, 2025 A new study has achieved unprecedented precision in detecting tiny shifts in light displacements at the nanoscale. This is relevant for example in the characterisation of birefringent materials and in high-precision measurements of rotations. (Nanowerk News) A study, led by the University of Portsmouth, has achieved unprecedented...

Mar 21, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The speed at which a battery charges depends on how efficiently lithium ions move through its materials. In conventional lithium-ion batteries, these ions must navigate through complex crystal structures, often encountering resistance that slows their movement. This sluggish transport creates a bottleneck, forcing longer charging...

Mar 20, 2025 Researchers have developed a new AI model that predicts dendritic growth in thin films, helping optimize thin-film growth processes. (Nanowerk News) Thin film devices, composed of layers of materials a few nanometers thick, play an important role in various technologies, from semiconductors to communication technologies. For instance,...

Mar 20, 2025 A nanoscale modulator has broken the terahertz mark. The ultrafast component efficiently transmits large volumes of data into the fibre-optic network in a short space of time. (Nanowerk News) Plasmonic modulators are tiny components that convert electrical signals into optical signals in order to transport them through...

Mar 20, 2025 This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe. (Nanowerk News) Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large...

Mar 20, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Light carries information in its wavelength, wavevector direction, polarization, and the way it bends through materials. Until now, optical data storage has typically used just one of these properties at a time—like encoding data in different colors of light. This limitation makes optical storage vulnerable...

Mar 19, 2025 Researchers reveal how microbes receive electrons from quantum dots, enabling nano-biohybrids to harvest sunlight for advanced chemical transformations. (Nanowerk News) Peanut butter and jelly. Simon and Garfunkel. Semiconductors and bacteria. Some combinations are more durable than others. In recent years, an interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers has...