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Nanotechnology

The fermentation of beer

Technology

Tiny yeast-filled robots help brew beer quickly and more efficiently

Millimetre-sized robots made of iron oxide and packed with yeast speed up fermentation of beer by swimming around in the fermenting container and can be removed with a magnet, eliminating the need for filtering out yeast

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Structural colour

Technology

Nanotechnology paint provides brilliant colour that doesn’t fade

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Fig. 4 | PhotGirl with a Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa, in miniatureorealistic plasmonic full-colour nanopainting. a, Schematic diagram of designing a patterned metasurface for simultaneously realizing various colour hues and brightness. b?d, Experimentally captured optical photographs of the metasurface-based artworks Girl with a Pearl Earring Matching image (b), Mona Lisa (c) and Virgin of the Rocks (d). The images show ultrasmooth transitions between the different colour hues and brightness by using our plasmonic colouring approach. Scale bars, 200??m.

Technology

Girl with a Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa recreated with nanotechnology

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Artwork of nodes in a network

Technology

鈥楢rtificial synapse鈥� could make neural networks work more like brains

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DNA illustration

Technology

Spinning rotors made from DNA could power minuscule machines

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The nanomechanical gate

Technology

Computer component could use as little energy as physically possible

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Technology

Tiny axles and rotors made of protein could drive molecular machines

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Technology

Silkworms make fluorescent silk after eating quantum dots

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Technology

The rise of the molecular machines set to make new wonder materials

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Polluted water

Environment

Nanorobots clean up contaminated water by grabbing hold of pollutants

Nanorobots propelled by magnets can be used repeatedly without fuel, offering a sustainable and cost-effective way to clean up industrial wastewater

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Life

Nanoparticles can translate chemical signals from bacteria to yeast

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Technology

Silk modified to reflect sunlight keeps skin 12.5掳C cooler than cotton

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Physics

Measuring time accurately increases the entropy in the universe

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Humans

Don鈥檛 Miss: tiny tech, a girl at the end of time and a mental mystery

Culture