Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by…
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SCP-Nano: A new technology to visualize nanocarriers in cells and tissues
How can we ensure that life-saving drugs or genetic therapies reach their intended target cells without causing harmful side effects? Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and Technical University Munich (TUM)…
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1,000-Year-Old Hoard of Silver Coins Unearthed in UK
Archaeologists from the Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) have discovered a hoard of 321 mint-condition silver coins (319 full pennies plus two cut halfpence) dating to the 11th century CE near the site of the future nuclear power station on…
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We Need a Fourth Law of Robotics for AI
In 1942, the legendaryscience fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.
- First Law: A robot may not injure a human…
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A podcast challenges us to reassess our relationship with wildfires
United by Fire
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Available wherever you get your podcastsFor hundreds of millions of years, wildfires were directed solely by the weather, vegetation and terrain. But in the last century in the…
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Donut Lab’s New Motor Brings Power to the Wheel Hub
In-hub wheel motors are among the most tantalizing and yet elusive of electric-vehicle technologies. And now, after decades of failures and near-misses, a donut-shaped electric hub motor was among the sweetest offerings at the recent CES show in…
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Physics – Charting Flatland Materials
• Physics 18, s9
Researchers have measured graphene’s plasmon spectrum using a novel electron-based spectroscopy technique.
Light-based instruments that probe electronic quasiparticles in few-atom-thick material…
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Physics – Short-Lived Superheavy Nucleus Uncovered
• Physics 18, 8
The discovery of an isotope, rutherfordium-252, whose ground state forestalls fission for just 60 nanoseconds, could help theorists understand the cosmic synthesis of superheavy elements.
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DNA nanorobots can alter artificial cells
Scientists at the University of Stuttgart have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes with the help of “DNA origami.” The system they developed may facilitate the transportation of large therapeutic loads into…
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Scientists develop ‘Malteser-like’ molecules with potential applications in targeted drug delivery
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have taken a major step forwards in tackling one of the greatest abiding challenges in chemistry, by learning how to programme the self-assembly of molecules in such a way that the end result is predictable…
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