Dec 10, 2025 A comprehensive report lays out a detailed science strategy to guide the initial human missions to the red planet. (Nanowerk News) The report, commissioned by NASA, identifies the highest priority scientific objectives for the missions as well as proposes four distinct mission campaigns designed to maximize the...
New superconducting thin film for quantum computer chips
Dec 10, 2025 Researchers made iron telluride into a superconducting thin film by reducing crystal distortion, enabling use in quantum chips at very low temperatures. (Nanowerk News) If quantum computing is going to become an every-day reality, we need better superconducting thin films, the hardware that enables storage and processing...
Beetle-inspired heat sink achieves high-efficiency CPU cooling through millisecond bubble transport
Dec 10, 2025 A 3D-printed Janus microchannel heat sink inspired by desert beetles enables ultrafast bubble removal and prevents CPU thermal throttling. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The Namib desert beetle survives one of Earth's harshest environments through an elegant trick of surface chemistry. Its shell combines water-attracting bumps with water-repelling troughs, allowing...
Fluffy, electrically charged ice grains reveal new plasma dynamics
Dec 09, 2025 Highly energized gas loses electrons, forming plasma, the fourth state of matter. While we associate plasmas with heat, icy particles can coexist with them, as seen in Webb images of molecular clouds. (Nanowerk News) When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent...
Study reveals limitations of AI-based material prediction
Dec 09, 2025 Computer simulations and artificial intelligence often make significant errors when predicting the properties of new, high-performance materials. This is the finding of an international study where the authors also provide tools to address this issue. (Nanowerk News) Many devices we use daily—such as smartphone batteries or solar...
Research reveals new hybrid state of matter where solids meet liquids
Dec 09, 2025 Some atoms in a liquid stay fixed even at high temperatures, reshaping how solidification starts and enabling an unusual corralled supercooled liquid state. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the temperature,...
Simple ion beam method creates highly sensitive magnetic nanostrips
Dec 09, 2025 New ion beam fabrication uses low cost materials to form vertical nanomagnets whose nanostrip geometry boosts sensitivity to magnetic fields and current pulses. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at HZDR have partnered with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and the Institute of Nuclear Physics in...
Nanodiamond quantum sensors track metabolism inside living cells in real time
Dec 09, 2025 Diamond nanoparticles containing nitrogen-vacancy centers can now monitor cellular metabolism in real time, targeting specific organelles while tracking particle movement inside living cells. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Watching cells breathe has always been difficult. The chemical reactions that keep our cells alive happen at scales too small and speeds...
Scientists use platelet-inspired nanoparticles as ‘Trojan horse’ drug-delivery system
Dec 09, 2025 Scientists boosted brain-computer interface performance by 2x using nanoparticles to deliver anti-inflammatory drugs directly to implanted electrodes. (Nanowerk News) Scientists working to enhance brain-computer interface (BCI) technology—which allows people to control devices with their thoughts—have found they can improve the performance of electrodes implanted in the brain...
The twisted nanotubes that tell a story
Dec 09, 2025 Researchers have demonstrated that the spiral geometry of tiny, twisted magnetic tubes can be leveraged to transmit data based on quasiparticles called magnons, rather than electrons. (Nanowerk News) Magnonics is an emerging engineering subfield that targets high-speed, high-efficiency information encoding without the energy loss that burdens electronics....