WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2025 — Zoom in far enough on an empress cicada wing, and a strange landscape materializes. At the nanoscale, densely packed spires rise from the surface, covering the wing in an ...
Silver coated nanospikes on empress cicada wings amplify Raman signals by up to a million times, offering a scalable low cost route to sensitive molecular detection. (Nanowerk News) Zoom in far enough ...