Month: January 2020

IMAGE: The NEUROPA initiative looks to develop a non-invasive means of modulating specific neural pathways in the brain view more  Credit: Romanova Natali The NEUROPA initiative targets a transformative progress in photonics, neuroscience and medicine by developing a non-invasive means of modulating specific neural pathways in the brain This research, led by Aston University, is a

IMAGE: The protocol begins with Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD) treatment of a mixture of proteinase K and the frozen, then broken-up tissue. The reaction mixture is next processed to remove solids… view more  Credit: PLOS ONE DNA in preserved museum specimens can allow scientists to explore the history of species and humanities impact on the ecosystem,

IMAGE: Depiction of a gas sensor array composed of microscale balances coated with thin films of nanoporous materials called metal-organic frameworks. view more  Credit: Arni Sturluson, Melanie Huynh, OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. – Research at Oregon State University has pushed science closer to developing an electronic nose for monitoring air quality, detecting safety threats

IMAGE: Scientists from Vienna, Kahan Dare (left) and Manuel Reisenbauer (right) working on the experiment that cooled a levitated nanoparticle to its motional quantum groundstate. view more  Credit: © Lorenzo Magrini, Yuriy Coroli/University of Vienna It is well known that quantum properties of individual atoms can be controlled and manipulated by laser light. Even large clouds

IMAGE: Illustration of the inner workings of a convolutional neural network that computes the probability that the input diffraction pattern belongs to a given class (e.g. Bravais lattice or space group)…. view more  Credit: Vecchio lab/Science Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a computer-based method that could make it less labor-intensive to

A team of chemists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has successfully coupled the directed motion of a light-activated molecular motor to a different chemical unit – thus taking an important step toward the realization of synthetic nanomachines. Molecular motors are chemical compounds that convert energy into directed motions. For example, it is possible to cause

IMAGE: For the first time, super magnets are be made with the help of laser-based 3D printing technology. view more  Credit: © IMAT – TU Graz From wind turbines and electric motors to sensors and magnetic switching systems: permanent magnets are used in many different electrical applications. The production of these magnets usually involves sintering or

In the world of big-time, small-scale characterization, the Lehigh Microscopy School has been leading the way for 50 years, and shows no signs of slowing down. The school’s 2020 offering, May 31 to June 5, will mark a half century since Lehigh University professor Joe Goldstein founded the annual weeklong program to keep colleagues and

IMAGE: Purdue University innovators have created a hybrid technique to fabricate a new form of nickel. view more  Credit: Qiang Li/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nickel is a widely used metal in the manufacturing industry for both industrial and advanced material processes. Now, Purdue University innovators have created a hybrid technique to fabricate a new

Graphene is a paradox. It is the thinnest material known to science, yet also one of the strongest. Now, research from University of Toronto Engineering shows that graphene is also highly resistant to fatigue — able to withstand more than a billion cycles of high stress before it breaks. Graphene resembles a sheet of interlocking

IMAGE: View into the scanning tunnelling microscope showing its metal tip very close to a surface under investigation view more  Credit: Georg A Traeger/Anna Sinterhauf – University of Göttingen Graphene is often seen as the wonder material of the future. Scientists can now grow perfect graphene layers on square centimetre-sized crystals. A research team from the

IMAGE: The movement of motor molecules interferes with the alpha-helices in the proteins, which causes structural changes. The change in the structure of the protein affects how the cells attach. This… view more  Credit: Zhou et al, University of Groningen Scientists at the University of Groningen and the University Medical Center Groningen used molecular motors to

Encompassing more than 1,500 references and the knowledge of 70 co-authors from EU-funded Graphene Flagship partners and associate members, the article aims to provide a single source of knowledge on graphene and related layered materials (GRMs). Graphene is already being used in many commercial applications, with numerous new products on the horizon. However, lack of

IMAGE: Suspended two-dimensional crystals over pores in a slab of gold (center image) allow NRL scientists to connect quantum light sources (inset images) in a ready-made network. view more  Credit: Jeremy Robinson/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON – Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory discovered a new platform for quantum technologies by suspending two-dimensional (2-D) crystals

IMAGE: A team of scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has uncovered the precise structure of the alpha-A-crystallin protein. Human alpha-A-crystallin forms structures of 12, 16 and 20 subunits… view more  Credit: Christoph Kaiser / TUM The lens of the human eye comprises a highly concentrated protein solution, which lends the lens its great

IMAGE: An oxygen map image recovered from a mouse undergoing radiation therapy. The luminescent oxygen probe PtG4 is injected during the week of radiation treatment and localizes between the cells of… view more  Credit: Brian Pogue, PhD LEBANON, NH – Oxygen in cancer tumors is known to be a major factor that helps radiation therapy be

Tomorrow’s electronics are getting ever smaller. Researchers are thus searching for tiny components that function reliably in increasingly narrow configurations. Promising elements include the chemical compounds indium selenide (InSe) and gallium selenide (GaSe). In the form of ultra-thin layers, they form two-dimensional (2D) semi-conductors. But, so far, they have hardly been used because they degrade