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Other May 4, 2024

Saturday Citations: Parrots on the internet; a map of human wakefulness; the most useless rare-earth element

We field a torrent of science news updates every week and on Saturday morning, we highlight three or four of them based on the observed preferences of a panel of dogs as shown by the Paired-Stimulus Preference Assessment, ...

Bio & Medicine May 3, 2024

Aligned peptide 'noodles' could enable lab-grown biological tissues

A team of chemists and bioengineers at Rice University and the University of Houston have achieved a significant milestone in their work to create a biomaterial that can be used to grow biological tissues outside the human ...

Bio & Medicine May 3, 2024

Vortex fluidic device can speed artificial liposome production to aid drug functionality

The expansion of clean chemistry applications for the vortex fluidic device (VFD)—invented by Flinders University's Professor Colin Raston—continues with the successful rapid and simplified production of artificial liposomes ...

Environment Apr 30, 2024

Activity in a room stirs up nanoparticles left over from consumer sprays, study shows

Common household products containing nanoparticles—grains of engineered material so miniscule they are invisible to the eye—could be contributing to a new form of indoor air pollution, according to a Rutgers University ...

Nanomaterials Apr 30, 2024

First high-resolution 3D nanoscale chemical imaging achieved with multi-modal tomography

By exploiting a smart learning algorithm that fuses two microscopy signals, University of Michigan researchers have accomplished high-resolution, efficient 3D chemical imaging for the first time at the one-nanometer scale. ...

Nanophysics Apr 30, 2024

New research reveals terahertz waves' impact on dynamics of nanoconfined water molecules

In a new discovery, researchers have revealed novel insights into the behavior of water molecules confined within nanostructures. Their study, published in Science Advances on April 24, delves into how terahertz (THz) waves ...

Bio & Medicine Apr 24, 2024

Imaging technique shows new details of peptide structures

A new imaging technique developed by engineers at Washington University in St. Louis can give scientists a much closer look at fibril assemblies—stacks of peptides that include amyloid beta, most notably associated with ...

Bio & Medicine Apr 24, 2024

Cows' milk particles used for effective oral delivery of drugs

Researchers have found that tiny particles present in cows' milk could offer, for the first time, an effective method for the oral delivery of RNA drugs.

Nanomaterials Apr 24, 2024

Crinkled coatings could prevent medical implants from failing

Medical implants could fail less often when coated with a microscopically crinkled, ceramic material designed by researchers at the University of Michigan. The coating is described in a paper published in ACS Applied Materials ...

Superconductivity Apr 24, 2024

Scientists develop novel one-dimensional superconductor

In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers at The University of Manchester have successfully achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields using a newly created one-dimensional ...

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