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Synthetic Tree Enhances Solar Steam Generation for Harvesting Drinking Water

WASHINGTON , June 22, 2021 — About 2.2 billion people globally lack reliable access to clean drinking water, according to the United Nations, and the growing impacts of […]

Bending Light for Safer Driving; Invisibility Cloaks to Come?

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2021 — Optical cloaking allows objects to be hidden in plain sight or to become invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside the […]

Brain Cell Membranes’ Lipids May Play Big Role in Alzheimer’s Progression

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2021 — Alzheimer’s disease is predominant in elderly people, but the way age-related changes to lipid composition affect the regulation of biological processes is […]

Printing Flexible Wearable Electronics for Smart Device Applications

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2021 — The demand for flexible wearable electronics has spiked with the dramatic growth of smart devices that can exchange data with other devices […]

Normal Breathing Sends Saliva Droplets 7 Feet; Masks Shorten This

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2021 — The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control recommend keeping a certain distance between people to prevent the spread of […]

Silver Attacks Bacteria, Gets ‘Consumed’

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2021 — For millennia, silver has been utilized for its antimicrobial and antibacterial properties. Although its use as a disinfectant is widely known, the […]

Probing Deeper into Origins of Cosmic Rays

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2021 — Cosmic rays are high-energy atomic particles continually bombarding Earth’s surface at nearly the speed of light. Our planet’s magnetic field shields the […]

Wake Steering Potentially Boosts Energy Production at US Wind Plants

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2021 — Wake steering is a strategy employed at wind power plants involving misaligning upstream turbines with the wind direction to deflect wakes away […]

Adding Antibodies To Enhance Photodynamic Therapy for Viral and Bacterial Disease

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the pressing need to mitigate a fast-developing virus as well as antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are growing at […]