Platinum, puddles, and water's true nature
Water droplets defy predictions, potentially offering insights to everything from fire-retardant fabrics to fuel cells.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreWater droplets defy predictions, potentially offering insights to everything from fire-retardant fabrics to fuel cells.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreRefined insights into critical ionic interactions with nature's building blocks.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreNew drug-delivery approach holds potential for treating obesity.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreScientists have developed a new, simple and quick way to make any number microlasers on a single structure.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreA compilation of recommendations from a 2015 workshop organized by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. appears in a report in Archives of Toxicology.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreScientists have developed a new method that has enabled them to image magnetic fields on the nanometer scale at temperatures close to absolute zero for the first time. They used spins in special diamonds as quantum sensors in a new kind of microscope to generate images of magnetic fields in superconductors with unrivalled precision.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreThe prototype device is made of tiny charged particles of gold, bound together with temperature-responsive polymers in the form of a gel.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreUsing an ultra fast-scanning atomic force microscope, researchers have filmed 'living' nuclear pore complexes at work for the first time.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreCovalently bonded, single-molecule-thick layer prevents phosphorene from degrading in open air.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreResearchers have created a new sensor technology that captures nanoscale images with high spatial resolution and sensitivity.
May 3rd, 2016
Read moreCurrently, one of the leading methods for creating qubits in materials involves exploiting the structural atomic defects in diamond. But several researchers believe that if an analogue defect could be engineered into a less expensive material, the cost of manufacturing quantum technologies could be significantly reduced.
May 2nd, 2016
Read moreResearchers combined three biopolymers, chitosan and agarose (polysaccharides), and a protein gelatine, as the materials to produce tissue engineering scaffolds and demonstrated the enhancement of mechanical strength (doubled pick load), higher water uptake and thermal properties in chitosan-gelatine-agarose hydrogels doped with halloysite.
Apr 29th, 2016
Read moreNanoscale magnets offer a new way to find faint, early traces of cancer in patients, according to researchers working on a method to capitalize on the magnets' properties.
Apr 29th, 2016
Read moreSpin currents in topological insulators controlled.
Apr 29th, 2016
Read moreQuantum spin liquid comes in several different varieties with subtly different properties, but that they all share the ability to support peculiar quantum mechanical phenomena.
Apr 29th, 2016
Read moreA team of engineers has found a sustainable way to boost the growth of a protein-rich bean by improving the way it absorbs much-needed nutrients.
Apr 29th, 2016
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