May 13, 2025 A robotic hand can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming. (Nanowerk News) When you reach out your hand to grasp an object like a bottle, you generally don’t need to know the bottle’s...
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Researchers develop living material from fungi
May 13, 2025 Fungi are considered a promising source of biodegradable materials. Researchers have developed a new material based on a fungal mycelium and its own extracellular matrix. This gives the biomaterial particularly advantageous properties. (Nanowerk News) Sustainably produced, biodegradable materials are an important focus of modern materials science. However,...
new technology for cell and gene therapy
May 13, 2025 Scientists are researching a new approach for the effective, safe and cost-efficient treatment of autoimmune patients. (Nanowerk News) One in ten adults in Germany suffers from an autoimmune disease. When our immune system is intact, it protects us from viruses and bacteria. In the case of an...
Lysosomal iron triggers cell death in drug-resistant cancer cells
May 12, 2025 Scientists have discovered how iron in lysosomes can induce ferroptosis, offering a new route to target treatment-resistant cancer cells and stop metastasis. (Nanowerk News) A recent groundbreaking study published in Nature ("Activation of lysosomal iron triggers ferroptosis in cancer") from researchers at the Institut Curie in Paris...
Tiny device promises new tech with a human touch
May 12, 2025 Engineers have invented a small neuromorphic device that detects hand movement, stores memories and processes information like a human brain, without the need for an external computer. (Nanowerk News) Engineers at RMIT University have invented a small neuromorphic device that detects hand movement, stores memories and processes...
The mysterious chemical world inside nanopores
May 12, 2025 Researchers have found a way to precisely control contaminants in nanopores that would ultimately benefit desalination techniques, carbon dioxide storage and porous catalysts. (Nanowerk News) Natural and engineered systems have a whole world of chemistry inside their tiny pores — known as nanopores — that changes depending...
Astrophysicist searches for gravitational waves in new way
May 12, 2025 Scientists are pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational wave background - the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos, warping the very fabric of space and time. (Nanowerk News) University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of...
Universe decays faster than thought, but still takes a long time
May 12, 2025 The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of three Dutch scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. (Nanowerk News) The research by black hole expert Heino Falcke, quantum physicist Michael Wondrak, and mathematician Walter van Suijlekom (all from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the...
Measuring molecular orientation in nanoscale gaps using enhanced vibrational spectroscopy
May 12, 2025 A nanoscale spectroscopy technique reveals the orientation of surface-bound molecules with sub-nanometer precision by confining light in a near-field region between a scanning probe and substrate. (Nanowerk News) Vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy is a nonlinear optical method widely used to study how molecules are arranged and...
New imaging method shows how tiny electric boundaries move in next-gen materials
May 12, 2025 Scientists have developed a tool that reveals how microscopic domain walls shift in ferroelectric materials, helping design energy-efficient electronics. (Nanowerk News) As demand for energy-intensive computing grows, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets scientists see —...