Sep 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) They’re tiny drug-delivery systems 1000 times smaller than a human hair, but while nanomedicines have long been hailed as the future for treating debilitating and life-threatening diseases, their journey from lab to patient has many challenges. Now, new findings from a global team of expert...
AI helps distinguish dark matter from cosmic noise
Sep 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Dark matter is the invisible force holding the universe together – or so we think. It makes up around 85% of all matter and around 27% of the universe’s contents, but since we can’t see it directly, we have to study its gravitational effects on...
New high-temperature adhesive mimics beetle adhesion for heat-sensitive applications
Sep 06, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) For industries that rely on precision and high performance, adhesives capable of withstanding extreme heat without weakening or leaving residues have been frustratingly out of reach. In electronics manufacturing, aerospace, and other high-tech fields, the lack of reliable high-temperature adhesives has forced engineers to work...
Plasmonic nanomaterials detect cancer genes in blood with ultra-high accuracy
Sep 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Dr. Min-young Lee and Dr. Sung-gyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) have developed a technology that can detect cancer mutant genes in blood with the world's highest sensitivity of 0.000000001% based on plasmonic...
Researchers create a one-dimensional gas out of light
Sep 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists at the University of Bonn and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) have created a one-dimensional gas out of light. This has enabled them to test theoretical predictions about the transition into this exotic state of matter for the first time. The method used in...
Galaxies are much much bigger than we thought
Sep 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) If this galaxy is typical, then the study, published in Nature Astronomy ("An emission map of the disk–circumgalactic medium transition in starburst IRAS 08339+6517"), indicates that our galaxy is already interacting with its closest neighbour, Andromeda. Where does a galaxy end and deep space begin?...