
A breakthrough in creating invisibility cloaks, stealth technology
Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is the theory behind fictional invisibility cloaks. It may seem easy in Hollywood movies, but is hard to creat ... more
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Trapping light: a long lifetime in a very small place
Physicists at the University of Rochester have created a silicon nanocavity that allows light to be trapped longer than in other similarly-sized optical cavities. An innovative design approach, whic ... more
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Lockheed Martin completes Orion spacecraft for crewed Artemis II lunar mission
NASA telescope begins infrared map of entire sky
Tiangong returns largest sample set yet for biological and materials science research
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Nanoscale composites improve MRI
Submicroscopic particles that contain even smaller particles of iron oxide could make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a far more powerful tool to detect and fight disease.
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DNA-Linked Nanoparticles Form Switchable "Thin Films" on a Liquid Surface
Scientists seeking ways to engineer the assembly of tiny particles measuring just billionths of a meter have achieved a new first-the formation of a single layer of nanoparticles on a liquid surface ... more
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Design of self-assembling protein nanomachines starts to click
A route for constructing protein nanomachines engineered for specific applications may be closer to reality. Biological systems produce an incredible array of self-assembling, functional protein too ... more
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Evolution of a Bimetallic Nanocatalyst
Atomic-scale snapshots of a bimetallic nanoparticle catalyst in action have provided insights that could help improve the industrial process by which fuels and chemicals are synthesized from natural ... more
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Stem cells are a soft touch for nano-engineered biomaterials
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have shown that stem cell behaviour can be modified by manipulating the nanoscale properties of the material they are grown on - improving the potenti ... more
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