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Fire up the atom forge
Rethink electron microscopy to build quantum materials from scratch, urge Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Borisevich and Stephen Jesse.
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MIT Researchers Break Plant-Human Communication Barrier
New kinds of information might be able to be gleaned from this new channel of communication with our neighbors in the plant kingdom. By Brett Tingely.
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How the 18th-century steam engine helped physicists make a quantum breakthrough
A new technique can remove noise from tiny electronic circuits, raising hopes of extremely efficient electronics and quantum technologies. By Clive Emary.
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How to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ Without Antibiotics
Because “superbugs” like MRSA no longer respond to traditional antibiotic treatments, researchers are locked in a constant microscopic arms race to develop new antibiotics that effectively counter increasingly resistant opportunistic bacterial strains. Recently, a 25-year-old doctoral student developed an entirely new technique for combating superbugs- and without using antibiotics... By Zayan Guedim.
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Optical forces used to make rewritable 3-D holographic materials
Researchers have used the pressure of light—also called optical forces or sometimes “tractor beams”—to create a new type of rewritable, dynamic 3D holographic material… By Lisa Zyga. (Sept. 30, 2016)
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Silkworms Spin Super-Silk After Eating Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
The strong, conductive material could be used for wearable electronics and medical implants, researchers say
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Neural Dust Implants
A tiny implant the size of a grain of sand has been created that can connect computers to the human body without the need for wires or batteries, opening up a host of futuristic possibilities.
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Graphene | How It's Made
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Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground
For want of an atom, the space elevator failed. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are famed for being a future wonder material that will enable a swathe of super-strong but light applications from racing bikes to computer components. But now it seems a single out-of-place atom is enough to cut their strength by more than half. That means one of the more outlandish applications for CNT fibres – a sci-fi space elevator – might never happen.
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Tiny diamonds could enable huge advances in nanotechnology
Nanomaterials have the potential to improve many next-generation technologies. They promise to speed up computer chips, increase the resolution of medical imaging devices and make electronics more energy efficient. But imbuing nanomaterials with the right properties can be time consuming and costly. A new, quick and inexpensive method for constructing diamond-based hybrid nanomaterials could soon launch the field forward.
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Scientists build the world's smallest engine
University of Cambridge physicists have created an engine that is one million times smaller than an ant.
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This Artist "Paints" With Nanoparticles Inspired by Butterfly Wings
Combining art and science comes naturally to Kate Nichols. The colors in her pieces don’t come from pigment, but from tiny silver nanoparticles suspended in the paint. She makes them herself, as artist-in residence in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.
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Company Aims To Bring Back The Dead Within 30 Years
Humai, a Los Angeles-based tech company, is hoping to bring back the dead within 30 years. A Los Angeles-based technology company has a goal of bringing dead people back to life within the next 30 years. Humai’s official website states that artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are being used to analyze human processes, and the creation of “an artificial body” is in the works.
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Humans 2.0
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. He is also among the most accomplished. In 1999, while still a high-school student, in Des Moines, Zhang found a structural protein capable of preventing retroviruses like H.I.V. from infecting human cells. The project earned him third place in the Intel Science Talent Search, and he applied the fifty thousand dollars in prize money toward...
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Nanonutrients boost tomato-growing productivity, researchers find
The world is expected to be teeming with nine billion humans by 2050, meaning we will be hard-pressed to meet this spiking demand for food without straining the natural resources we have. Scientists are racing to find a solution—and some may have just found a breakthrough.
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Nanowires, stem-cell transplants and wastewater treatment win 2015 MacArthur ‘genius grants’
Nine US scientists and social scientists among 24 winners.
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Forgetful scientists accidentally quadruple lithium-ion battery lifespan
Until someone figures out a replacement for lithium-ion in rechargeable batteries, research will continue into how to cram more energy inside as well as extending their useful lifespan. Two scientists believe they have managed to extend the life of such batteries significantly, and all because of an accident in the lab.
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Like paper, graphene twists, folds into nanoscale machines
The art of kirigami involves cutting paper into intricate designs, like snowflakes. Cornell physicists are kirigami artists, too, but their paper is only an atom thick, and could become some of the smallest machines the world has ever known.
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3D brain map reveals connections between cells in nano-scale
Researchers hope images will enable study of abnormal connections between cells present in neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and depression
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Scientists make a transistor from a single molecule
Scientists have built a nano-sized transistor from just one molecule (and a handful of atoms).
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