Treating, Preventing Heart Attacks with Human Tissue Models
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2022 – A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, resulting in 18 million deaths per year. […]
Saturn 5 Was Loud But Didn’t Melt Concrete
WASHINGTON, August 23, 2022 – The Saturn 5 carried man to the moon and remains the most powerful rocket to successfully launch to orbit. It captures the […]
Do Wind Instruments Disperse COVID Aerosol Droplets?
WASHINGTON, August 16, 2022 – During the COVID-19 pandemic, many live musical events and festivals were postponed and even canceled to protect musicians and audience members. When […]
Harvesting Resources on Mars with Plasmas
WASHINGTON, August 16, 2022 – An international team of researchers came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment. It’s a […]
Human-Machine Interfaces Work Underwater, Generate Their Own Power
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2022 – Wearable human-machine interface devices, HMIs, can be used to control machines, computers, music players, and other systems. A challenge for conventional HMIs […]
Body Posture Affects How Oral Drugs Absorbed by Stomach
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2022 – A common, economic, and easy method of administering drugs is orally, by swallowing a pill or capsule. But oral administration is the […]
Ultrasound Could Save Racehorses from Bucked Shins
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2022 – When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and new bone formations in their legs. […]
Improving Image Sensors for Machine Vision
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 – Image sensors measure light intensity, but angle, spectrum, and other aspects of light must also be extracted to significantly advance machine vision. […]
Light Polarization Creates Art, Explains Mathematical Concepts
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2022 – The polarization of light underpins a variety of recent technological innovations, including 3D cinema and LCDs. In LCDs, tiny electronically controllable liquid […]