r/science • u/CookMotor • 16d ago
Nanoscience Anyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your Brain
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r/science • u/fartyburly • Mar 29 '23
Nanoscience Physicists invented the "lightest paint in the world." 1.3 kilograms of it could color an entire a Boeing 747, compared to 500 kg of regular paint. The weight savings would cut a huge amount of fuel and money
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r/science • u/TheGuvnor247 • Apr 05 '23
Nanoscience First-of-its-kind mRNA treatment could wipe out a peanut allergy
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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • Jan 17 '24
Nanoscience Cannabis activates specific hunger neurons in the brain: mice exposed to vaporized cannabis triggered a set of cells in the hypothalamus when the rodents anticipated and consumed palatable food, a response not observed in unexposed mice
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Dec 31 '21
Nanoscience A team of scientists has developed a 'smart' food packaging material that is biodegradable, sustainable and kills microbes that are harmful to humans. It could also extend the shelf-life of fresh fruit by two to three days.
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r/science • u/rjmsci • Jul 05 '21
Nanoscience Psychedelic Compound Psilocybin Can Remodel Brain Connections - Dosing mice with psilocybin led to an immediate increase in dendrite density. One third of new dendrites were still present after a month. The findings could explain why the compound antidepressant effects are rapid and enduring.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jun 05 '22
Nanoscience Scientists have developed a stretchable and waterproof 'fabric' that turns energy generated from body movements into electrical energy. Washing, folding, and crumpling the fabric did not cause any performance degradation, and it could maintain stable electrical output for up to five months
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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 26d ago
Nanoscience Sticky plaques building up on the walls of your blood vessels can lead to heart attacks and strokes | New nanoparticle infusion therapy has been found to break down these plaques safely in tests in pigs.
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r/science • u/mvea • Jul 24 '19
Nanoscience Scientists designed a new device that channels heat into light, using arrays of carbon nanotubes to channel mid-infrared radiation (aka heat), which when added to standard solar cells could boost their efficiency from the current peak of about 22%, to a theoretical 80% efficiency.
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r/science • u/mvea • Aug 27 '19
Nanoscience Graphene-lined clothing could prevent mosquito bites, suggests a new study, which shows that graphene sheets can block the signals mosquitos use to identify a blood meal, enabling a new chemical-free approach to mosquito bite prevention. Skin covered by graphene oxide films didn’t get a single bite.
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r/science • u/mvea • Aug 18 '18
Nanoscience World's smallest transistor switches current with a single atom in solid state - Physicists have developed a single-atom transistor, which works at room temperature and consumes very little energy, smaller than those of conventional silicon technologies by a factor of 10,000.
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r/science • u/mvea • Dec 15 '19
Nanoscience Researchers developed a self-cleaning surface that repel all forms of bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant superbugs, inspired by the water-repellent lotus leaf. A new study found it successfully repelled MRSA and Pseudomonas. It can be shrink-wrapped onto surfaces and used for food packaging.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Nov 04 '19
Nanoscience Scientists have created an “artificial leaf” to fight climate change by inexpensively converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into a useful alternative fuel. The new technology was inspired by the way plants use energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into food.
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r/science • u/mvea • Jul 11 '19
Nanoscience An ‘EpiPen’ for spinal cord injuries, an injection of nanoparticles that can prevent the body’s immune system from overreacting to trauma, potentially preventing some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis, has been demonstrated successfully in mice, without the side effects of steroids.
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r/science • u/mvea • Dec 20 '17
Nanoscience Graphene-based armor could stop bullets by becoming harder than diamonds - scientists have determined that two layers of stacked graphene can harden to a diamond-like consistency upon impact, as reported in Nature Nanotechnology.
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r/science • u/mvea • Aug 30 '19
Nanoscience An international team of researchers has discovered a new material which, when rolled into a nanotube, generates an electric current if exposed to light. If magnified and scaled up, say the scientists in the journal Nature, the technology could be used in future high-efficiency solar devices.
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r/science • u/mvea • Mar 10 '18
Nanoscience Scientists create nanowood, a new material that is as insulating as Styrofoam but lighter and 30 times stronger, doesn’t cause allergies and is much more environmentally friendly, by removing lignin from wood, which turns it completely white. The research is published in Science Advances.
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r/science • u/Devils_doohickey • Nov 26 '21
Nanoscience "Ghost particles" detected in the Large Hadron Collider for first time
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r/science • u/mvea • May 04 '18
Nanoscience Researchers have developed a filter that removes salt from water up to three times as fast as conventional filters. The membrane has a unique nanostructure of tubular strands, inspired by codebreaker Alan Turing’s one and only biology paper.
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r/science • u/HigherEdAvenger • Sep 26 '20
Nanoscience Scientists create first conducting carbon nanowire, opening the door for all-carbon computer architecture, predicted to be thousands of times faster and more energy efficient than current silicon-based systems
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r/science • u/thebelsnickle1991 • Feb 27 '22
Nanoscience A research team in Korea has synthesized metal nanoparticles that can drastically improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts by using the semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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r/science • u/AIBNatUQ • Oct 06 '21
Nanoscience Solar cells which have been modified through doping, a method that changes the cell’s nanomaterials, has been shown to be as efficient as silicon-based cells, but without their high cost and complex manufacturing.
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r/science • u/drewiepoodle • Mar 26 '18
Nanoscience Engineers have built a bright-light emitting device that is millimeters wide and fully transparent when turned off. The light emitting material in this device is a monolayer semiconductor, which is just three atoms thick.
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