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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 […]

Computer Simulation Models Potential Asteroid Collisions

WASHINGTON, December 21, 2021 — An asteroid impact can be enough to ruin anyone’s day, but several small factors can make the difference between an out-of-this-world story […]

Your Seat on Public Transportation Determines Level of Exposure to Exhaled Droplets

WASHINGTON, December 21, 2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the urgency of understanding how public transportation ventilation systems transmit viruses and how exhaled droplets evolve in […]

Understanding Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2021 — As the world searches for practical ways to decarbonize our activities and mitigate associated climate change, approaches to alternative energy are hampered […]

Microfountain Pen Draws Minute Patterns for Live Cells, Circuits

WASHINGTON, December 7, 2021 — Advances in intuitive microwriting devices that can print microstructures could pattern electric circuits and more. The setup, featuring a robot arm to […]

Smart Transformable Nanoparticles Promise Advances in Tumor Diagnoses, Treatment

WASHINGTON, December 7, 2021 — For more than three decades, biomedical nanomaterials have been successfully developed for the benefit of theranostics — a compound term referring to the […]