Nanotechnology

Smallest Engine Ever Created Brought To Life By ANTs

Expanding polymer-coated gold nanoparticles. (Image Credit: Yi Ju/University of Cambridge) Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a nano-engine...

Researchers Find A New Way To Capture CO2

The team has created CO2 sorbents that are able to capture CO2 in larger numbers and at higher stability than...

Water Disinfected in Minutes With Newly Developed Solar Gadget

To make water safe to drink, the germs in the water can be killed by either boiling the water, or...

Materials with Unexpected Magnetism Could Advance Robust Quantum Computer Architecture

Researchers are astonished by a new and completely unforeseen magnetic effect. This new information may open up doors to electronic...

Thinnest, Lightest Solar Cells on the Planet Unveiled

The basic forms of solar cells currently on store shelves are weighty and bulky. However, that is about to change...

Light May Exist in a Newly Discovered Form

There is new research that suggests that it is possible to create a new form of light by binding a...

Potential New And Improved Protective Material Invented Thanks to Adaptive Protein Crystal Discovery

UC San Diego chemists recently built what is being called an “adaptive protein crystal” that fascinatingly is able to thicken...

Fastest Multiframe Digital X-Ray Camera in the World Brought to Life

Physicists have long struggled to perform nuclear fusion on a laboratory scale. Such an event occurs between successive monitored images...

Smallest Engine Ever Created Brought To Life By ANTs

Expanding polymer-coated gold nanoparticles. (Image Credit: Yi Ju/University of Cambridge) Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a nano-engine...