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1,000-Cycle Lithium-Sulfur Battery Could Quintuple Electric Vehicle Ranges

A new biologically inspired battery membrane has enabled a battery with five times the capacity of the industry-standard lithium ion design to run for the thousand-plus cycles needed to power an electric car.

New Photonic Effect Could Speed Drug Development

Twisted semiconductor nanostructures convert red light into the twisted blue light in tiny volumes, which may help develop chiral drugs

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Nanostructures Get Complex with Electron Equivalents

Nanoparticles of two different sizes break away from symmetrical designs

Nanotechnology: Theory Predicts New Type of Bond That Assembles Nanoparticle Crystals

Turns out entropy binds nanoparticles a lot like electrons bind chemical crystals

Open-Source Patient Model Tops Industry Standard

Tested without needing hospitals to share data, the method for developing the model could speed further improvements in medical prediction tools

Avian Secret: the Key to Agile Bird Flight Is Switching Quickly Between Stable and Unstable Gliding

The finding could have implications for future agile autonomous aerial vehicles

Twisted Vibrations Enable Quality Control for Chiral Drugs and Supplements

Terahertz light creates twisting vibrations in biomolecules such as proteins, confirming whether their compositions and structures are safe and effective.

Graphene-hBN Breakthrough to Spur New LEDs, Quantum Computing

Study uncovers first method for producing high-quality, wafer-scale, single-layer hexagonal boron nitride

Nanobiotics: Model Predicts How Nanoparticles Interact With Proteins

Nanoengineered drugs that stop harmful bacteria and viruses could be on the horizon

Seeing Electron Movement at Fastest Speed Ever Could Help Unlock Next-Level Quantum Computing

New technique could enable processing speeds a million to a billion times faster than today's computers and spur progress in many-body physics

Photosynthesis Copycat May Improve Solar Cells

The new approach moves energy efficiently and could reduce energy losses converting light into electricity