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Feb 25, 2026 Charged helium nanodroplets stored in an ion trap for a full minute, 10,000x longer than before, open breakthrough possibilities in nanocalorimetry and nanoscale research. (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the University of Innsbruck, supported by Prof. Dr. Lutz Schweikhard from the Institute of Physics at...

Feb 25, 2026 Researchers show standard tire sensors can expose drivers' movements, raising privacy concerns. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study ("Can’t Hide Your Stride: Inferring...

Feb 25, 2026 Researchers have created protein fibers inspired by various animal muscle proteins. These materials are grown in bioreactors and can be stronger than many synthetic fibers. (Nanowerk News) Natural muscle fibers are made up of spring-like proteins that can contract and stretch without losing their original form, dissipate...

Feb 25, 2026 Atom-level understanding of how the surface electronic properties of a magnetic semimetal can be tuned could guide its use in advanced technologies like spintronics and catalysis. (Nanowerk News) Topological materials exhibit different electronic behaviors in their bulk and on their surface. These differences can enable new functionality,...

Feb 24, 2026 A new study has revealed how tiny imperfections and vibrations inside a promising quantum material could be used to control an unusual quantum effect, opening new possibilities for smaller, faster and more efficient energy-harvesting devices. (Nanowerk News) An international team, led by Professor Dongchen Qi from the...

Feb 24, 2026 With the flip of a switch, scientists harness light to program how particles interact and assemble. (Nanowerk News) NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in the Cell Press journal Chem ("Light-controlled colloidal crystallization"), provides a...

Feb 24, 2026 A pore smaller than one nanometer reads peptide sequences amino acid by amino acid, pinpointing single-site Alzheimer's mutations and modifications with single-residue resolution. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Detecting Alzheimer's disease early means finding molecular traces of it in blood or cerebrospinal fluid, sometimes when only a few hundred copies...

Feb 24, 2026 Atomic vibrations can transfer orbital angular momentum to electrons in a non-magnetic material. (Nanowerk News) To keep up with today’s computing needs, researchers mine the quantum realm to find better ways to handle massive data demands. A new field known as “orbitronics” is the newest of these...

Feb 24, 2026 Researchers once struggled to understand unconventional solutions developed by artificial intelligence. A new approach leads to faster and better understanding. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Tübingen, working with an international team, have developed an artificial intelligence that designs entirely new, sometimes unusual, experiments in quantum...

Feb 23, 2026 Nanoscale ferroelectric tunnel junctions built on silicon show that shrinking device size dramatically boosts resistance contrast, offering a clear path to faster, denser non-volatile memory. (Nanowerk News) Shrinking ferroelectric tunnel junctions can significantly boost their performance in memory devices, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. The...