From an article at phys.org: A new tool that uses a forest-like array of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes that can be finely tuned to selectively trap viruses by their size can increase the detection threshold for viruses and speed the process of identifying newly-emerging viruses. The research, by an interdisciplinary team of scientists at Penn State, [...]
From an article by Sam Arbesman, PhD at medium.com: We are tool users. While this skill is not unique to humanity (Wikipedia has helpfully documented other cases of “Tool use by animals”), human civilization is suffused with tool use. We use tools to help us eat, tools to help us build homes and other structures, tools for [...]
From an article written by AZoNano: Researchers from MIPT and teams in Russia and a few other European nations are the first to realize and record the phenomenon of water molecular dipoles alignment. The researchers achieved this by confining water molecules in nanocages inside a beryl crystal. The details of the study have been reported [...]
From Nanowerks news: “Nature makes some beautiful patterns with atoms.” That’s what Jim LeBeau wants people to take away from an art exhibit he is helping to curate at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C that runs from Sept. 20 – Nov. 20, 2016. “We want to show people that we are [...]
From an article by Paul Rincon. Science editor, BBC News website: The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the design and synthesis of the world's smallest machines. The work has overtones of science fiction, but holds huge promise in fields as diverse as medicine, materials and energy. All grand endeavours start small. This is [...]
From Jayme Hoffman at The Mission: Here’s a fun idea… If Apple wasn’t competing with Tesla and were to re-run it’s famous “Think Different” campaign, would you place Elon Musk among the group of “crazy ones?” He’s a rebel, a trouble maker and thinks he can change the world. Elon has a certain knack for thinking [...]
From Nanowerk news: Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surfaces of protoplanetary disks, these new ALMA observations are the first to reveal that such spirals occur at the disk midplane, [...]
From Nanowerk News: Scientists have long suspected that the way materials behave on the nanoscale – that is when particles have dimensions of about 1–100 nanometres – is different from how they behave on any other scale. A new paper in the journal Chemical Science ("Solvation and surface effects on polymorph stabilities at the nanoscale") [...]
From Nanowerk news: Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects them from excessive light intensity. A team of researchers headed by Clemens Bechinger from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University [...]
Written by AZoNano: Cornell dots or C dots are nanoparticles that are emerging as promising therapeutic tools to detect and treat cancer. These nanoparticles were developed by Ulrich Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering at Cornell University over 12 years ago. These ultrasmall particles have now proved that they are capable of killing [...]
