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 […]
Creating New Physical Properties in Materials
WASHINGTON D.C., November 29, 2016 – A collaborative effort between research groups at the Technical University of Freiberg and the University of Siegen in Germany demonstrates that […]
New Tool Enables Viewing Spectrum from Specific Structures Within Samples
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 — Fluorescence is an incredibly useful tool for experimental biology and it just got easier to tap into, thanks to the work […]
Microbubbles Make Big Impact
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2016 — The quest to develop a wireless micro-robot for biomedical applications requires a small-scale “motor” that can be wirelessly powered through biological […]
Shaking Things Up with More Control
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2016 — This month, Samsung recalled 2.8 million top-loading washing machines due to excessive vibrations that could cause the top to break off […]
From Champagne Bubbles, Dance Parties and Disease to New Nanomaterials
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2016 — Whether it is clouds or champagne bubbles forming, or the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease or Type 2 diabetes, a common […]