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‘Frequency Combs’ ID Chemicals Within the Mid-Infrared Spectral Region

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — Chemical compounds all carry distinctive absorption “fingerprints” within the mid-infrared spectral region of 2 to 12 microns. This offers an opportunity […]

Thermally Driven Spin Current in DNA

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — An emerging field that has generated a wide range of interest, spin caloritronics, is an offshoot of spintronics that explores how […]

Shaken, and Stirred: Scaling Up Bioreactors’ Fluid Dynamics

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2018 — Bioreactors are widely used to produce different therapeutics in the biopharmaceutical and regenerative medicine industries. Drug development relies on small multi-well […]

A Simple Trick for Modeling Calcium

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2018 — Calcium is essential for our bodies to function. Calcium ions enable cells to communicate with one another, allowing neurons to interact, […]

Engineering a New Spin for Disease Diagnostics

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2018 — Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a new platform with the potential to extract tiny circulating biomarkers of […]

American Service Industry Approaching a ‘Tipping Point’

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 27, 2018 — The average rate at which Americans tip for services has been increasing steadily for decades, which creates a growing pay disparity […]

MEMS Chips Get Metalenses

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 20, 2018 — Lens technologies have advanced across all scales, from digital cameras and high bandwidth in fiber optics to the LIGO lab instruments. Now, […]

Why Polymer Solar Cells Deserve Their Place In the Sun

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 20, 2018 — Unlike traditional silicon solar cells, organic polymer solar cells (PSCs) may never cover the hillsides of a megawatt solar farm. But, […]

New Turbulent Transport Modeling Shows Multiscale Fluctuations in Heated Plasma

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 13, 2018 — Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics, used a “reduced […]