The term combines two concepts – “bionic” which means to give a living thing an artificial capability (like a bionic arm), and “nano” which refers to particles smaller than 100 ...

Dark, eel-like, and roughly three and a half inches long, these deep-sea creatures glow ... particles. The composition and structure of these nanocrystals make the dragonfish’s fangs transparent ...

The tiny particles are roughly in the shape of cubes ... the crystals combine the photons and glow with a different wavelength of light in a process called NIR-upconversion.

But once the light was turned off, only the green glow from the particles remained, revealing the whorls, branches, and other patterns in the fingerprints on each surface. Fingerprints developed ...

Quantum dots are extremely tiny semiconductor crystals. Some of them glow very brightly when struck with ultraviolet radiation and photographed with a confocal microscope. Postdoctoral scholar Ken ...

brought black lights and glow powder into the Maryland State Police crime lab, they weren't setting up a laser tag studio or nightclub. Instead, their aim was to study the way drug particles get ...

"It's my Moby Dick," she added. Glowing or not, marine snow is found in oceans everywhere, though in varying amounts. The particles' slow descent to the darkest recesses of oceans worldwide are ...

In February 2000, scientists spotted an unusual, glowing creature swimming 8,576 ... is an ethereal-looking creature with a ...

brought black lights and glow powder into the Maryland State Police crime lab, they weren't setting up a laser tag studio or nightclub. Instead, their aim was to study the way drug particles get ...