A nanodiamond-based sensor that measures the thermal conductivity of living cells at subcellular resolution could help researchers better understand how organisms generate and control...
Fluorescent carbon quantum dots have been used to determine when fresh mackerel have spoiled. The low-cost, selective and highly sensitive technique was developed by...
"An illustration of the chain-reaction process that underlies the photon avalanching mechanism Columbia Engineering researchers have realized in their nanoparticles. In this process, the...
Why do some thin films of single-wall carbon nanotubes take on colourful hues even though as-synthesized films are usually black? A team of researchers...
"Reconstructed vortex rings inside a magnetic micropillar. Credit: Claire Donnelly"
Researchers have observed three-dimensional magnetic vortex rings in a real-world magnetic material for the first...
Gold nanotubes can destroy cancer cells, according to physicists and medical researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Leeds. They found...
"Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH. Credit: University of Houston"
With the world’s reserves of light oil diminishing, oil companies...
