Nanotechnology 'tattoo' can map emotions and monitor muscle activity

Novel skin electrode is comfortable and has endless commercial and medical applications.

Veggie juice that illuminates the gut

The medical imaging drink, developed to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal illnesses, is made of concentrated chlorophyll, the pigment that makes spinach green.

Germs add ripples to make 'groovy' graphene

New nanomaterial conducts differently at right angles.

Scientists grow atomically thin transistors and circuits

In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies, scientists developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick.

Reconfiguring active particles into dynamic patterns

Electrostatic imbalance causes particles to swarm, cluster, and form connected chains.

Physicists couple distant nuclear spins using a single electron

For the first time, researchers have coupled the nuclear spins of distant atoms using just a single electron.

A faster, precise silica coating process for quantum dot nanorods

Materials researchers have fine-tuned a technique that enables them to apply precisely controlled silica coatings to quantum dot nanorods in a day - up to 21 times faster than previous methods.

New focused ion beam strengthens nanotechnology and high-pressure science

'Nano scalpel' allows structuring of samples with nanometre precision.

Physicists collide ultracold atoms to observe key quantum principle

Physicists have used steerable 'optical tweezers' to split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and slowly smash them together to directly observe a key theoretical principle of quantum mechanics.

Breakthrough in the formation of beam size controllable X-ray nanobeams

One step closer to realizing a multifunctional X-ray microscope.