Jul 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Machine learning shed new light on the formation history of our Milky Way: a surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of ancient stars on orbits similar to that of our Sun. They formed...
Key to rapid planet formation
Jul 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Our solar system is our immediate cosmic neighborhood. We know it well: the Sun at the center; then the rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars; and then the asteroid belt; followed by the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn; then the ice giants Uranus and...
Automated DNA nanotube synthesis method advances molecular engineering capabilities
Jul 31, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a powerful tool for manipulating matter at the nanoscale, offering unprecedented control over the positioning and assembly of molecular components. This field has seen remarkable progress since its inception in the 1980s, with researchers developing increasingly sophisticated methods to create...
Newly discovered sheets of nanoscale ‘cubes’ make excellent catalysts
Jul 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created sheets of transition metal chalcogenide “cubes” connected by chlorine atoms. While sheets of atoms have been widely studied e.g. graphene, the team’s work breaks new ground by using clusters instead. The team succeeded in forming nanoribbons inside carbon...
The rotation of a nearby star stuns astronomers
Jul 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers from the University of Helsinki have found that the rotational profile of a nearby star, V889 Herculis, differs considerably from that of the Sun. The observation provides insights into the fundamental stellar strophysics and helps understanding the activity of the Sun, its spot structures...
Self-powered ‘bugs’ can skim across water to detect environmental data
Jul 30, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have developed a self-powered “bug” that can skim across the water, and they hope it will revolutionize aquatic robotics. Futurists predict that more than one trillion autonomous nodes will be integrated into all human activities by...
Bright prospects for engineering quantum light
Jul 30, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum internet? The secret to our modern internet is the ability for data to remain intact while traveling over long distances, and the best...
Researchers identify unique phenomenon in Kagome metal
Jul 30, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In traditional Japanese basket-weaving, the ancient “Kagome” design seen in many handcrafted creations is characterized by a symmetrical pattern of interlaced triangles with shared corners. In quantum physics, the Kagome name has been borrowed by scientists to describe a class of materials with an atomic...
Molecular switches demonstrate complex behavior advancing potential for ultra-dense memory
Jul 30, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The miniaturization of electronic components has been a driving force in technological advancement, pushing the boundaries of computing power and efficiency. As silicon-based devices approach their physical limits, researchers have increasingly focused on the molecular scale, where individual molecules could serve as the fundamental units...
Organic nanozymes have broad applications from food and agriculture to biomedicine
Jul 30, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Nanozymes are tiny, engineered substances that mimic the catalytic properties of natural enzymes, and they serve a variety of purposes in biomedicine, chemical engineering, and environmental applications. They are typically made from inorganic materials, including metal-based elements, which makes them unsuitable for many purposes due...