How to 3-D Print Your Own Sonic Tractor Beam
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 3, 2017 — Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single-sided acoustic tractor […]
Detection System Reads Biomolecules in Barcoded Microgels
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2016 — Single-stranded, noncoding micro-ribonucleic acids (microRNAs), consisting of 18-23 nucleotides, play a key role in regulating gene expression. Levels of microRNAs circulating […]
Laboratory-on-a-Chip Technique Simplifies Detection of Cancer DNA Biomarkers
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 13, 2016 — Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S., making early, reliable diagnosis and treatment a priority for researchers. […]
“Listening” to Signals Traveling Through Bridges for Diagnosing Damage
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 – A group of Clarkson University mathematicians and a civil engineer developed a passive and noninvasive approach to “listen” to a collection […]
Uncovering the Secrets of Water and Ice As Materials
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2016 — Water is vital to life on Earth and its importance simply can’t be overstated — it’s also deeply rooted within our […]
Blocks of Ice Demonstrate Levitated and Directed Motion
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2016 — Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice becomes highly mobile due to a levitating […]
Improving the Resolution of Lithography
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2016 – Flow-lithography is a lithographic method for continuously generating polymer microstructures for various applications such as bioassays, drug-delivery, cell carriers, tissue engineering […]
Synchronized Swimming: How Startled Fish Shoals Effectively Evade Danger
Washington, D.C., November 29, 2016 — As panic spreads, an entire shoal (collective) of fish responds to an incoming threat in a matter of seconds, seemingly as […]
Understanding the Way Liquid Spreads Through Paper
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 – Molecules move randomly, colliding with each other in continual motion. You can even smell this process at times; it’s how perfume […]