Automating Blood Smears for Easier Malaria Diagnosis
WASHINGTON, January 18, 2022 – One of the key steps in diagnosing or treating many bloodborne diseases is to perform a blood smear, where a drop of […]
Owl Wing Design Reduces Aircraft, Wind Turbine Noise Pollution
WASHINGTON, January 18, 2022 — Trailing-edge noise is the dominant source of sound from aeronautical and turbine engines like those in airplanes, drones, and wind turbines. Suppressing […]
Editorial: Bionic Devices Offer Benefits, But Pose Health, Ethical Concerns
WASHINGTON, January 6, 2022 — Superhuman performance is no longer science fiction. Bionic devices of the future may be used to augment the neural system to improve […]
Plasma-Based Engineering Creates Contact-Killing, Antifouling, Drug-Release Surfaces
WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 — The deepening concern over antibiotic-resistant infections, coupled with prevailing hospital-acquired infections from surgical tools, implants, and heavily touched surfaces, has ramped up […]
Sustainable Silk Material for Biomedical, Optical, Food Supply Applications
WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 — While silk is best known as a component in clothes and fabric, the material has plentiful uses, spanning biomedicine to environmental science. […]
Coughing Downward Reduces Spread of Respiratory Droplets
WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 — With many heading indoors for the winter months and respiratory droplets acting as a major contributor to COVID-19 spread, the scientific community […]
Revealing Classic Physics Embedded in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
WASHINGTON, December 22, 2021 — James Joyce’s book “Ulysses” is widely considered a 20th-century literary masterpiece. It also contains a surprising amount of 19th-century classical physics, according […]
Biosensors Using Field-Effect Transistors Show Great Promise
WASHINGTON, December 21, 2021 — Demand for sensitive and selective electronic biosensors — analytical devices that monitor a target of interest in real time — is growing […]
Robotic Manipulators Inspired by Nature
WASHINGTON, December 21, 2021 — Traditional robots can have difficulty grasping and manipulating soft objects if their manipulators are not flexible in the way elephant trunks, octopus […]