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Released: 25-Apr-2025 7:40 PM EDT
Eight Early-Career Scientists Will Attend the AACR Annual Meeting with Ludwig Support
Ludwig Cancer Research

Ludwig Cancer Research is proud to support eight early-career scientists presenting their research at the conference this year through the AACR Scholar-in-Training Awards (SITA) program, contributing to the cost of their travel and attendance at the conference.

Newswise: This Injected Protein-like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack
Released: 25-Apr-2025 9:00 AM EDT
This Injected Protein-like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack
University of California San Diego

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to encourage tissue repair and promotes survival of heart muscle cells after a heart attack.

Newswise: Scientists Have Found a Way to ‘Tattoo’ Tardigrades
Released: 23-Apr-2025 9:10 AM EDT
Scientists Have Found a Way to ‘Tattoo’ Tardigrades
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade’s nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny “tattoos” to test a microfabrication technique to build microscopic, biocompatible devices.

Newswise: Pump-Induced Stimulated Superradiant Smith-Purcell Radiation with Ultra-Narrow Linewidth
Released: 18-Apr-2025 10:35 AM EDT
Pump-Induced Stimulated Superradiant Smith-Purcell Radiation with Ultra-Narrow Linewidth
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Free electron lasers have unique advantages of high power, wide frequency tunablility and et al, however, they face challenge in narrowing the spectral linewidth. Scientists in China proposed and realized the pump-induced stimulated superradiant Smith-Purcell radiation (PIS-SPR) and achieved an ultra-narrow spectral linewidth of 0.3 kHz at ~0.3 THz in a compact device.

Newswise: Innovation Is Motivation
Released: 17-Apr-2025 11:50 AM EDT
Innovation Is Motivation
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “As a boy, I remember my interest in science and learning new things, making new things. That has always been my motivation,” said Sandia scientist Hongyou Fan. Fan was recently named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, a group dedicated to accelerating federal technologies in the marketplace.

Newswise: KIST Develops Full-Color-Emitting Upconversion Nanoparticle Technology for Color Displays with Ultra-High Color Reproducibility
Released: 11-Apr-2025 12:00 AM EDT
KIST Develops Full-Color-Emitting Upconversion Nanoparticle Technology for Color Displays with Ultra-High Color Reproducibility
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Dr. Ho Seong Jang and colleagues at the Extreme Materials Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed an upconversion nanoparticle technology that introduces a core@multi-shell nanostructure, a multilayer structure in which multiple layers of shells surround a central core particle, and enables high color purity RGB light emission from a single nanoparticle by adjusting the infrared wavelength.

Newswise: From Microelectronics to Microfluidics: How 3D Printing Is Shaping the Future of Tiny Devices
Released: 9-Apr-2025 9:30 AM EDT
From Microelectronics to Microfluidics: How 3D Printing Is Shaping the Future of Tiny Devices
Chinese Academy of Sciences

The world of micro and nano devices is undergoing a seismic shift, thanks to the latest advancements in 3D printing technology. This cutting-edge approach is revolutionizing the production of microelectronic and microfluidic devices, enabling the creation of intricate structures with unparalleled precision.

Newswise: A Surprise Contender for Cooling Computers: Lasers
Released: 8-Apr-2025 10:10 AM EDT
A Surprise Contender for Cooling Computers: Lasers
Sandia National Laboratories

Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips.

Released: 7-Apr-2025 11:25 AM EDT
Researchers Discover a New Type of Quantum Entanglement
American Technion Society

New Technion study reveals a new form of quantum entanglement in photon angular momentum within nanoscale structures, a thousandth the width of a hair—paving the way for miniaturized quantum communication and computing.

Newswise: Spinning Into the Future: Fidget Spinner Revolutionizes Bacterial Detection
Released: 7-Apr-2025 4:55 AM EDT
Spinning Into the Future: Fidget Spinner Revolutionizes Bacterial Detection
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A team of researchers has unveiled an innovative diagnostic tool that transforms an everyday toy into a high-tech bacterial detection device. The plasmonic fidget spinner (P-FS) integrates nanoplasmonic technology with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to provide ultra-fast and precise bacterial identification. By leveraging the spinning motion to enhance signal detection, the P-FS significantly improves sensitivity, making it a potential game-changer for point-of-care diagnostics, particularly in resource-limited settings. This breakthrough could drastically cut detection times from days to minutes, revolutionizing the fight against bacterial infections.

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Released: 2-Apr-2025 10:50 AM EDT
Study Reveals New Details on How Virus Builds Protective Shell
Indiana University

A research team at Indiana University Bloomington has uncovered new details about how a tiny virus builds its protective outer shell —a crucial part of its ability to infect cells.

Newswise: Molecular Modeling Reveals How Nanocrystals Take Shape
Released: 31-Mar-2025 7:50 PM EDT
Molecular Modeling Reveals How Nanocrystals Take Shape
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The shape of nanoparticles depends on the choice of solvent and temperature during their growth, but the seed particles that form first are too small to measure accurately. Researchers have developed a new approach to successfully model seed particles with 100 to 200 atoms.

Released: 28-Mar-2025 9:20 AM EDT
New Approach Makes One Type of Clean Fuel Production 66% More Efficient
Ohio State University

Researchers have uncovered a more efficient way to turn carbon dioxide into methanol, a type of alcohol that can serve as a cleaner alternative fuel.

Released: 27-Mar-2025 6:35 PM EDT
Manipulating the Very Small at Large Scale
Universite de Montreal

Delphine Bouilly's team has developed an innovative, automated technique for large-scale graphene transfer, facilitating the production of electronic chips for molecular diagnostics.

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Released: 26-Mar-2025 6:35 PM EDT
"Magnetic Tweezers": Making Robotic Surgery Safer, More Precise with a Human Touch
Southern Methodist University

Imagine if a doctor could remotely do a non-invasive, highly precise medical procedure on her patients using a tiny robot, or microrobot? With a device researchers from SMU and George Washington University created, that is one step closer to reality.

Released: 24-Mar-2025 7:55 PM EDT
3D Nanotech Blankets Offer New Path to Clean Drinking Water
Ohio State University

Researchers have developed a new material that, by harnessing the power of sunlight, can clear water of dangerous pollutants.

Released: 24-Mar-2025 6:15 PM EDT
Building Blocks of Innovation: Light-Induced Symmetry Changes in Tiny Crystals
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers have shown that they can use light to temporarily alter the crystal symmetry within lead sulfide quantum dots. This process reduces the off-centering of lead atoms and affects the electronic properties of the quantum dots.

Newswise: Moiré than Meets the Eye
Released: 24-Mar-2025 11:00 AM EDT
Moiré than Meets the Eye
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers have discovered that phasons, low-temperature quasiparticles found in crystal lattices, enable interlayer excitons to move at very low temperatures, when motion should stop. In addition to contributing to foundational materials science knowledge, this discovery could help improve the stability of quantum technologies, such as using excitons as qubits.

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Released: 14-Mar-2025 8:15 PM EDT
Two NJIT Faculty Elected as National Academy of Inventors Senior Members
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

New Jersey Institute of Technology Professors Vivek Kumar and Xuan Liu have been named as Senior Members in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2025 class. They join 162 emerging academic inventors from 64 NAI Member Institutions across the nation recognized for their outstanding contributions to innovation.

Newswise: Quantum Spin Model Made From Nanographene Molecules
Released: 14-Mar-2025 9:00 AM EDT
Quantum Spin Model Made From Nanographene Molecules
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful experiment was a kind of “quantum Lego” made of tiny carbon molecules known as nanographenes.



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