Day: April 8, 2024

Apr 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The biological brain, especially the human brain, is a desirable computing system that consumes little energy and runs at high efficiency. To build a computing system just as good, many neuromorphic scientists focus on designing hardware components intended to mimic the elusive learning mechanism of...

Apr 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Transition metal telluride nanosheets have shown enormous promise for fundamental research and other applications across a range of different fields, but until now, mass fabrication has been impossible, leaving the material as something of a laboratory curiosity rather than an industrial reality. But a team...

Apr 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Our muscles are nature’s perfect actuators — devices that turn energy into motion. For their size, muscle fibers are more powerful and precise than most synthetic actuators. They can even heal from damage and grow stronger with exercise. For these reasons, engineers are exploring ways...

Apr 08, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The drive to create materials that emulate the extraordinary properties of living systems has long been a source of inspiration and frustration for scientists and engineers. From the earliest attempts to understand the mysteries of silk's strength and elasticity to the more recent efforts to...

Apr 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field. New results published in Nature Astronomy ("Linear to circular conversion in the polarized radio emission of a magnetar") describe radio signals from magnetar...

Apr 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Cells are the building blocks of our body and are organized into smaller components, each with a specialized function. Most of these components are enveloped by a protective membrane made of fats. All, with the exception of the biomolecular condensates. These tiny, dynamic droplets prepare...