May 28, 2026 Researchers developed a potential treatment for brain cancer that uses nanofibers embedded with a combination of drugs that work in concert to target tumors. (Nanowerk News) The drugs proved more effective in combination than when administered alone and can provide both immediate and long-lasting doses to kill...
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Listening to Sun’s ‘heart’ hints our star could be changing
May 28, 2026 The Sun's internal 'biorhythm' - which plays a critical role in the space weather we experience on Earth - has mysteriously changed over the past 40 years, a new study suggests. (Nanowerk News) Listening to tiny sound waves inside our star's 'heart' led researchers to discover that...
Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes
May 28, 2026 Combining holographic imaging with ultrafast spectroscopy enables observing short-lived electronic and magnetic phenomena key to novel energy materials. (Nanowerk News) An extremely fast microscopy method to research the interaction of light and matter makes it possible to study optical processes on very short timescales. To this end,...
AI-designed synthetic plant DNA passes its first cellular test
May 28, 2026 PlantGFM created synthetic plant DNA that tobacco cells copied into RNA, with some sequences producing detectable proteins in early validation tests. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Living cells do not treat every piece of DNA as an instruction. Most DNA placed inside a cell is ignored, damaged, silenced, or copied...
Liquid metal pump powers soft robotic butterfly at less than 0.1 volts
May 28, 2026 A pea-sized liquid metal pump drives soft robots and wearables at ultra-low voltage, enabling portable fluidic actuation without bulky hardware. (Nanowerk News) Engineers have invented an ingenious liquid-metal pump which could make future soft robotics and wearable devices much more portable and agile. The breakthrough, led by...
The strange quantum property of tomorrow’s insulator
May 27, 2026 Scientists have demonstrated the quantum metric in a topological insulator with unusual conductivity. (Nanowerk News) Ultra-fast data transfer and superconductivity: quantum materials offer significant technological prospects—if we can understand them at the atomic scale. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the University...
Laser written aluminum surfaces control Leidenfrost droplet motion
May 27, 2026 Researchers used femtosecond laser direct writing to program Leidenfrost droplet motion on heated aluminum surfaces through hybrid boiling. (Nanowerk News) Researchers led by Professor Dong Wu and Jiale Yong at the University of Science and Technology of China have used femtosecond laser direct writing to control Leidenfrost...
Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy
May 27, 2026 The first direct mass measurement from the early universe weighs in on the debate over the origins of supermassive black holes. (Nanowerk News) Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars...
A new way to move heat could transform energy and electronics
May 27, 2026 Researchers demonstrate carefully engineered metameterials dramatically boost heat transfer at the nanoscale. (Nanowerk News) Heat behaves in predictable ways: a hot cup of coffee cools, a laptop warms your hands, the sun heats the Earth. But at scales thousands of times smaller than a human hair, those...
Perfect randomness realized for the first time
May 27, 2026 Researchers have, for the first time, created certifiably perfect random numbers using a quantum experiment. These can be used, for instance, for encrypting messages. (Nanowerk News) Creating perfect randomness is surprisingly difficult. Even modern random number generators never generate completely ideal random numbers: small systematic errors can...