Dec 06, 2025 New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for extreme physics'. (Nanowerk News) An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Michigan, has captured unprecedented images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their...
Nanoengineered hard-carbon anodes enable ultrafast sodium storage
Dec 06, 2025 Nanoengineered hard-carbon with nanoporous channels and an ultrathin SEI boosts fast, reversible all-slope sodium storage in hard-carbon anodes. (Nanowerk News) A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has demonstrated ultrafast and highly reversible all-slope sodium storage using specially...
DNA nanostructures assembled in ionic liquids gain stability and targeting
Dec 06, 2025 DNA nanostructures assembled in ionic liquids instead of magnesium become stable in biological conditions and bind cancer-cell markers with higher precision. (Nanowerk News) DNA nanostructures are exciting new biomedical tools with myriad potential in treatment, diagnosis and disease prevention. Made of folded DNA, these nanostructures are highly...
X-ray spikes reveal electron beam size
Dec 06, 2025 Researchers have directly observed, for the first time, transverse intensity fluctuations, called 'spikes', in synchrotron light. (Nanowerk News) While synchrotron radiation is often thought of as “stable”, the electromagnetic field exhibits pronounced randomly fluctuating distributions both temporally and spatially. These fluctuations encode spatial information about the electron...