Physics
Self-propelling droplets creep towards heat to cool microchips
For the first time, scientists have simulated the reverse of the common effect where cold water runs away from heat, and the result could keep electronics cool
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Technology
Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand 鈥� just add water
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Health
Tiny robots swim the front crawl through your veins
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Environment
Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic
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Nanoparticles that chat back and forth could dispense medication
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Humans
What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?
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Tiny nanoelectrodes record brain’s activity without damaging it
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Physics
Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared
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Environment
World’s first ‘nanofish’ could be used as guided drug missiles
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Health
Nanobots could swarm like bats to hunt out brain tumours
Simulations suggest that bat signals could be used to direct nanobots through the brain in search of neuron damage and signs of cancer
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Technology
Shampoo bottles get nano-makeover to squeeze out every drop
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Physics
Nano-camera lens reveals the hidden mirror world of molecules
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Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground
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Metamaterial lens is thinner than the light it bends and focuses
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