Jun 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a distant galaxy in the constellation Hercules, a gigantic black hole has torn apart a giant star. This is shown by extensive observations with several observatories, reported by an international, DESY-led research team in the journal Physical Review Letters ("Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr...
Researchers study society’s readiness for AI ethical decision making
Jun 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) With the accelerating evolution of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a growing role in decision-making processes. Humans are becoming increasingly dependent on algorithms to process information, recommend certain behaviors, and even take actions of their behalf. A research team has studied how humans react to...
Topological phase detected in spin chains
Jun 03, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Any matter occurs in different phases, which can merge into one another. An example of this is water, which exists in liquid form, as ice or steam - depending on the external conditions. The different physical phases have the same chemical composition, but a different...
Time crystals ‘impossible’ but obey quantum physics
Jun 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have created the first ”time-crystal” two-body system in an experiment that seems to bend the laws of physics. It comes after the same team recently witnessed the first interaction of the new phase of matter. Time crystals were long believed to be impossible because...
Artificial intelligence centered cancer nanomedicine: Diagnostics, therapeutics and bioethics
Jun 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The book “Artificial Intelligence Based Cancer Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Bioethics” gives a comprehensive explanation of the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in cancer nanomedicine. It presents 10 chapters that cover multiple dimensions of the subject. These dimensions are: –The need of AI...
Progressive medicinal and herbal nanoscience for targeted drug delivery systems
Jun 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) This 2-part reference informs readers about the application of drug delivery technologies to herbal medicines. Chapters cover a broad range of major topics on the subject of targeted drug delivery systems. These topics include the application of drug delivery systems for herbal nanomedicines, drug development...
Microscopy – beyond Moore’s Law
Jun 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University are using advanced microscopy to nanoengineer promising materials for computing and electronics in a beyond-Moore era. Historically, computers have become faster and more powerful by Moore’s Law, an observation that technology advances as transistor sizes...
Artificial muscles deliver sustainable cooling
Jun 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new type of energy efficient, ecologically sustainable cooling technology that does not require the use of climate-damaging refrigerants is currently being developed by Professor Stefan Seelecke and his team at Saarland University. The new technology makes use of shape-memory materials that are also known...
Engineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier
Jun 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) There are currently few good treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer with a high fatality rate. One reason that the disease is so difficult to treat is that most chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that surround the brain. A...
Disruptive ideas needed to achieve sustainable flight by 2050
Jun 02, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Aerospace engineers don’t know the exact configuration and performance of a jet airplane powered by liquid hydrogen, but they do know that getting there by 2050 will take some big shifts from the conventional ways we design aircraft today. A recent study (AIAA Aviation Forum,...