Looking at optical Fano resonances under a new light
Scientists advance understanding of optical Fano resonances and show new ways to manipulate light with metamaterialsCredit: Overvig and Alù, DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.3.2.026002 In 1961, physicist Ugo...
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First-in-human phase I trial to assess the efficacy and safety of a novel Myc inhibitor
Peptomyc's Omomyc-based therapy against cancer put to the clinical testCredit: VHIO Co-founded back in 2014 by VHIO's Laura Soucek, CEO of the enterprise, and Marie-Eve...
High-efficiency pulse compression established on solitons in nonlinear Kerr resonators
Credit: by Sheng Zhang, Zongyuan Fu, Bingbing Zhu, Guangyu Fan, Yudong Chen, Shunjia Wang, Yaxin Liu, Andrius Baltuska, Cheng Jin, Chuanshan Tian & Zhensheng Tao...
Demonstrating the world’s fastest spintronics p-bit
Credit: K. Hayakawa et al. Tohoku University researchers have, for the first time, developed the technology for the nanosecond operation of the spintronics-based probabilistic bit...
Robust and ultralow-energy-threshold ignition of lean fuels by an ultrashort-pulsed laser
Credit: by Hongwei Zang, Helong Li, Wei Zhang, Yao Fu, Shanming Chen, Huailiang Xu, and Ruxin Li Laser ignition (LI) is a promising electrode-less alternative...
Advancement creates nanosized, foldable robots
Credit: Courtesy Cornell University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial design and high-fidelity sensors. Cornell...
80% of Spanish health professionals were willing to be vaccinated during the second COVID-19 wave
Among the reasons given by health personnel for not wanting to be immunized, fears about the vaccines' safety and the potential side effects stood outCredit:...
Plasmonic tweezers: For nanoscale optical trapping and beyond
Credit: by Yuquan Zhang, Changjun Min, Xiujie Dou, Xianyou Wang, H. Paul Urbach, Michael Somekh and Xiaocong Yuan Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in...
How flashlight fish communicate with light signals in the school
The blinking frequency affects the behaviour of the other fish in the school.Credit: RUB, Department of General Zoology and Neurobiology, Stefan Herlitze Flashlight fish have...
Foreign-born run greater risk of workplace bullying
Credit: Stefan Blomberg The risk of being bullied at work is twice as high if you were born abroad. And if you come from a...
Pretty gameful!
DFG funds mobile game on quantum physics with 100.000 eurosCredit: Philipp Stollenmayer Quantum physics with a cat: The Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat-Complexity and Topology...
Endocrine disruptors threatens semen quality
Scientists from UNIGE and IRSET have established a link between poor semen quality in adult men and their mothers' occupational exposure to endocrine disruptors during...
Parkinson’s disease: When molecular guardians need to be protected
Credit: Nicola Roverato, University of Konstanz Parkinson's disease is the second most common, age-related, neurodegenerative disease: In Germany alone, about 300,000 people are affected and...
Is it worth investing in solar PV with batteries at home?
Credit: Adam Islaam - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Solar energy is a clean, renewable source of electricity that could potentially play a...
A new dye shakes up solar cells
Credit: Jean-David Décoppet and Alejandra Hauser. In 1991, scientists Brian O'Regan and Michael Grätzel at EPFL published a seminal paper describing a new type of...
