Nanospheres shield chemo drugs, safely release high doses in response to tumor secretions

Scientists have designed nanoparticles that release drugs in the presence of a class of proteins that enable cancers to metastasize. That is, they have engineered a drug delivery system so that the very enzymes that make cancers dangerous could instead guide their destruction.

Advanced composites may borrow designs from deep-sea shrimp

New research is revealing details about how the exoskeleton of a certain type of deep-sea shrimp allows the animal to survive scalding hot waters in hydrothermal vents thousands of feet under water.

Nonmagnetic elements form unique magnet

Titanium and gold are usually not magnetic and cannot be magnets - unless you combine them just so.

Significant development in the understanding of macroscopic quantum behavior

Researchers demonstrate the wavelike quantum behavior of a polariton condensate on a macroscopic scale and at room temperature.

Researchers build a transistor from a molecule and a few atoms

An international team of physicists has used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms. The observed transistor action is markedly different from the conventionally expected behavior and could be important for future device technologies as well as for fundamental studies of electron transport in molecular nanostructures.

Study finds the law governing how heat transport scales up with temperature

Law governing anomalous heat conduction revealed.