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Nanotechnology
Golden Eye: Gold Nanoparticles may help people recover their vision one day
Credit: ACS Nano (2025). doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4C14061 A new study by researchers at Brown University suggests that gold nanoparticles (a microscopic bit of gold thousands of times thinner than human hair) are used to restore vision in people with macular degeneration and other retinal disorders. In a study published in the Journal ACS Nano, the researchers showed that nanoparticles injected into…
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Space & Cosmos
NASA Telescope delivers bouquets of stars in time for Valentine’s Day
30 Dorados Region (label). Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PENN STATE UNIV./L. Townsley et al. Infrared: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SST; Optical: NASA/STSCI/HST; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/j. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. Arcand Bouquets of thousands of stars from Bloom have arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made in a magnificent star-forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra…
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Science
19 times a day: Male medaka’s mating limit revealed
Male medaka mate several times a day, and females lay eggs once a day. Provided by: Osaka Metropolitan University Unraveling the kinks of mating in the animal kingdom can help us gain insight into species survival. In animals with multiple partners that lay eggs outside the body, like most fish, the male releases sperm several times a day, but the…
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