Measuring Blood Sugar With Light
WASHINGTON D.C. October 25, 2013 — One of the keys to healthful living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is monitoring blood glucose (sugar) levels to […]
Understanding DNA Damage
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 25, 2013 — Every day, all day, our DNA gets beaten up by chemicals and radiation — but remarkably, most of us stay healthy. […]
Shifting Winds in Turbine Arrays
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 22, 2013 — Researchers modeling how changes in air flow patterns affect wind turbines’ output power have found that the wind can supply energy […]
Low-Priced Plastic Photovoltaics
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 22, 2013 — Photovoltaic devices, which tap the power of the sun and convert it to electricity, offer a green — and potentially unlimited […]
Salmonella Sensing System
WASHINGTON D.C. Oct. 18, 2013 — As anyone who has ever consumed bacteria-contaminated food and experienced “food poisoning” can tell you, it’s a miserable experience. Yet it’s […]
Wrangling flow to quiet cars and aircraft
WASHINGTON D.C. Oct. 18, 2013 — Plasmas are a soup of charged particles in an electric field, and are normally found in stars and lightning bolts. With […]
Promising New Alloy for Resistive Switching Memory
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 20, 2013 — Memory based on electrically-induced “resistive switching” effects have generated a great deal of interest among engineers searching for faster and smaller […]
Bright, Laser-Based Lighting Devices
WASHINGTON D.C. Sept. 27, 2013 — As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights — the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever […]
Solar Power’s Future Brawl
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 1, 2013 — A trio of researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo and the University of South Dakota have turned to computer modeling to […]