Malaria: Blood Cells Behaving Badly
WASHINGTON D.C. June 10, 2014 — All the billions of flat, biconcave disks in our body known as red blood cells (or erythrocytes) make three basic, tumbling-treadmill-type […]
Funky Ferroelectric Properties Probed with X-rays
WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features […]
Magnetic Cooling Enables Efficient, “Green” Refrigeration
WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Magnetic cooling is a promising new refrigeration technology boasting several advantages – ranging from lower energy consumption to eliminating the use […]
Just Add Water: 3-D silicon shapes fold themselves when wetted by microscopic droplets
WASHINGTON D.C. June 3, 2014 — Researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands have taken the precise art of origami down to the microscopic scale. […]
Vanishing da Vinci
WASHINGTON D.C. June 3, 2014 — One of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpieces, drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s and widely believed to be […]
Here Come the “Brobots”
WASHINGTON D.C. June 2, 2014 — A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots, which […]
Smaller Accelerators for Particle Physics?
WASHINGTON D.C., May 27, 2014 — It took every inch of the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile length to accelerate particles to energies high enough to discover the […]
New Lithium Battery Created in Japan
WASHINGTON D.C., May 20, 2014 — The long life of lithium ion batteries makes them the rechargeable of choice for everything from implantable medical devices to wearable […]
Water Caged in Buckyballs
WASHINGTON D.C. May 20, 2014 — In a new paper in The Journal of Chemical Physics, produced by AIP Publishing, a research team in the United Kingdom […]