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Sep 22, 2025 Researchers engineered magnetic nanorobots that carry anticancer drugs and penetrate tumor cell membranes, improving chemotherapy effectiveness. (Nanowerk News) Spiky nanorobots powered by magnets have been developed to carry drugs and pierce tumor cell membranes, a key barrier to effective cancer treatment. By boosting drug entry, these “microscopic...

Sep 21, 2025 Engineers have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete's carbon footprint, while reducing waste going to landfill. (Nanowerk News) Engineers in Australia have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete’s carbon footprint, while reducing waste going to landfill (Structures,...

Sep 21, 2025 The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. (Nanowerk News) The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a...

Sep 21, 2025 Researchers have demonstrated entanglement between atomic nuclei separated by 20 nanometres, using electrons as mediators, advancing prospects for large-scale quantum computing on silicon. (Nanowerk News) UNSW engineers have made a significant advance in quantum computing: they created ‘quantum entangled states’ – where two separate particles become so...

Sep 20, 2025 Scientists use quantum many-body data and machine learning to boost density functional theory accuracy for chemistry and materials science. (Nanowerk News) A new trick for modeling molecules with quantum accuracy takes a step toward revealing the equation at the center of a popular simulation approach, which is...

Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics. "Plasmonic design sparks 2440 fold photon upconversion in 2D layers." Nanowerk, 20 September 2025, https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=67697.php. Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics. (2025, September 20). Plasmonic design sparks 2440 fold photon upconversion in 2D layers. Nanowerk. https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=67697.php Changchun Institute of Optics,...

Sep 20, 2025 A responsive hydrogel delivers RNA therapy to diabetic wounds, reducing tissue breakdown and inflammation by releasing treatment in sync with the wound's chemical signals. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A small cut on the foot should not be life altering. But for people living with diabetes, that cut can turn...

The University of Tokyo. "Water flowed on ancient asteroid." Nanowerk, 20 September 2025, https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=67698.php. The University of Tokyo. (2025, September 20). Water flowed on ancient asteroid. Nanowerk. https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=67698.php The University of Tokyo, "Water flowed on ancient asteroid," Nanowerk, September 20, 2025, https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=67698.php.

Sep 19, 2025 Astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf star outside our Solar System. (Nanowerk News) In our Solar System, it is thought that comets and icy planetesimals (small solid objects in space) were responsible for delivering water...

Sep 19, 2025 A team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. (Nanowerk News) In a newly published study in (The Astrophysical Journal Letters, "ODIN: Clustering Analysis of 14,000 Lyα-emitting Galaxies...