Air pollution can contaminate your heart cells with metal nanoparticles from infancy
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New shape-shifting metal particles shred drug-resistant bacteria to bits
You can't adapt to gettin' stabbed.
Real life invisibility cloaks are closer than we think
A new advancement in the use of nanocomposites could pave the way for future invisibility cloaks.
New plasma printing technique can deposit nanomaterials on flexible, 3D substrates
A new nanomaterial printing method could make it both easier and cheaper to create devices such as wearable chemical and ...
Soon, oncologists will use shapeshifting to fight cancer
University of Toronto researchers have developed a molecular delivery system to administer chemotherapy drugs with as little collateral damage as ...
New method allows large molecules to get squeezed through cell membranes
A group of researchers at MIT have devised a new method for infiltrating cells with large molecules such as nanoparticles ...
Detecting biomarkers in urine could allow for earlier cancer diagnosis
By detecting specific biomarkers (proteins) produced by cancer cells, physicians can diagnose a tumor, however these are so diluted in ...
Nanoparticle-tech converts solar energy into steam with extreme efficiency
The solar steam device developed at Rice University has an overall energy efficiency of 24 percent, far surpassing that of ...
Intelligent nanoparticles drop anti-aging cargo
A group of researchers have successfully tested a novel nanodevice treatment, in which intelligent nanoparticles selectively open and release drugs ...
A candle’s flame burns millions of diamond nano-particles every second
Diamonds are for a nano-second - in the glitter of a candle light, that is. In a stroke of brilliance, ...
Photograph of nanobots killing off cancer
Take a really good look at this picture; you may just be looking at the very thing that will defeat ...
‘Holy Grail’ Of Nanoscience achieved ?!
Researchers at at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have achieved something that many people call the Holy ...