Sep 23, 2026 Researchers have developed light-emitting polymers that also serve as photoresists and can be precisely patterned using photolithography - an established process in the chip industry. This enables the production of tiny, coloured OLED pixels for screens, as well as precise light sources for research and medical technology....
For the first time, microrobots coordinate and control their environment
Sep 23, 2026 Physics researchers have made robots that for the first time can sense the temperature of their surroundings and react together to change it. (Nanowerk News) “Little things can have a large impact,” said Itai Cohen, a leader in developing microscopic robots and a corresponding author on the...
Robot dog runs a marathon on a single battery charge (w/video)
Sep 23, 2026 A four-legged robot finished South Korea's tough Sangju Marathon in 4:19, with enough charge left for another half-marathon. (Nanowerk News) A four-legged robot that is able to complete a marathon on a single battery charge is reported in Nature ("A quadruped robot designed to complete a marathon...
Spin waves inside a nano-oscillator imaged for the first time
Sep 23, 2026 Direct X-ray imaging of spin Hall nano-oscillators reveals asymmetric spin-wave emission and previously overlooked effects that shape their dynamics. (Nanowerk News) For the first time, researchers have directly imaged the magnetisation dynamics inside a spin Hall nano-oscillator — a nanoscale device that converts direct current into tunable...
Quantum device simulates matter popping into existence
Sep 23, 2026 A new study demonstrates the ability to conduct experiments related to the Big Bang and high-energy physics. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, one of the first...
Electrical pulses tune magnetic properties for next-generation memory
Sep 23, 2026 Researchers electrically altered spin configurations in ferrimagnetic thin films, shifting their compensation temperature by up to 110 K without changing material composition, opening a route to tunable spintronic memory. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Professor Jung-Il Hong of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at...
Galaxies in the early universe are weird. These stars may explain why
Sep 23, 2026 New Hubble Space Telescope TEMPOS survey of 29 massive stars in extremely metal-poor galaxies finds unexpectedly weak stellar winds and delivers the largest-ever dataset of its kind, which could reshape our understanding of how galaxies formed in the early universe. (Nanowerk News) The more astronomers learn about...
A robot that shifts its own weight to cross land, steps, and water (w/video)
Sep 22, 2026 Researchers built an undulatory robot that pumps water between its head and tail to climb slopes, clear steps and swim, all while keeping the same basic gait. (Nanowerk News) A robot meant to inspect a coastline, a flooded street or a wetland can't count on one kind...
New biochip watches Parkinson’s treatment work in a living ‘mini-brain’
Sep 22, 2026 Researchers combined patient-derived brain organoids with an ultrasensitive nanoplasmonic sensor to track dopamine and Parkinson's drug response continuously in real time. (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Professor Inki Kim of the Department of Biophysics at Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)— with co-first authors Han-Jun Cho and Youngjun Kim...
Engineered nanoparticles sensitize gliomas to radiotherapy
Sep 22, 2026 Targeting autophagy, the body’s natural cell recycling system, can cure gliomas in mouse models. (Nanowerk News) Gliomas are a major cause of cancer-related deaths in younger adults. About 7,000 patients harbor a common genetic mutation that affects the enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1. This mutated enzyme, called mIDH1,...