Nov. 30, 2020 Research is paving the way for a new solution to kill aerosolized COVID-19 in enclosed environments such as hospitals and long-term care facilities. Computational modelling has shown that low dose ...
Nov. 24, 2020 Scientists have come up with a simple method to evaluate the strength and performance of polymer materials. They hope that their work will enable scientists and engineers to better evaluate the ...
Nov. 24, 2020 The addition and removal of methyl groups on DNA plays an important role in gene regulation. In order to study these mechanisms more precisely, a team has developed a new method by which specific ...
Nov. 24, 2020 When the words 'artificial intelligence' (AI) come to mind, your first thoughts may be of super-smart computers, or robots that perform tasks without needing any help from humans. Now, a ...
Nov. 23, 2020 For a long time, scientists have been looking for simple methods to produce infrared laser pulses. Now a new method has been presented that does not require large experimental setups; it can be ...
Nov. 23, 2020 Physicists have succeeded in fully integrating nanodiamonds into nanophotonic circuits and at the same time addressing several of these nanodiamonds optically. The study creates the basis for future ...
Nov. 23, 2020 Inspired by nature, researchers can demonstrate a synthetic strategy to stabilize bio-inspired solar energy harvesting materials. Their findings could be a significant breakthrough in functionalizing ...
Nov. 23, 2020 Researchers have developed a new theory for observing a quantum vacuum that could lead to new insights into the behaviour of black ...
Nov. 20, 2020 The vision of the future of miniaturization has produced a series of synthetic molecular motors that are driven by a range of energy sources and can carry out various movements. A research group has ...
Nov. 20, 2020 Scientists have found a way to control an interaction between quantum dots that could greatly improve charge transport, leading to more efficient solar ...
Nov. 19, 2020 Researchers have developed a new design of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that demonstrates record-fast temporal ...
Nov. 19, 2020 A recent study has shown that a UV light technology already used to prevent the spread of other airborne diseases in buildings has the potential to be effective against ...
Nov. 18, 2020 In the future, hydrogen produced from sunlight and water using photocatalysts could provide a source of clean energy. Researchers have developed a method to detect the oxygen produced from this ...
Nov. 18, 2020 New tech combines the core software needed to drive AI with image-capturing hardware - in one electronic chip. The light-driven prototype device imitates the way the human brain processes visual ...
Nov. 18, 2020 Engineers have developed a new beam scanning device utilizing photonic crystals, eliminating the use of mechanical mirrors. The team found that modulating the shape and position of the lattice allows ...
Nov. 17, 2020 A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as ...
Nov. 17, 2020 Large objects behave in accordance with the classical laws of mechanics formulated by Sir Isaac Newton and small ones are governed by quantum mechanics, where an object can behave as both a wave and ...
Nov. 16, 2020 Scientists have reported a new optical imaging technology, using a glass side covered with gold nanodiscs that allows them to monitor changes in the transmission of light and determine the ...
Nov. 16, 2020 Bringing huge amounts of protons up to speed in the shortest distance in fractions of a second -- that's what laser acceleration technology, greatly improved in recent years, can do. An ...
Nov. 16, 2020 Scientists developed a photodiode using a crystalline film composed of lead perovskite compounds with organic chiral molecules to detect circularly polarized light without a filter. It is expected as ...