Surfaces Can Be Designed with Antiviral Properties to Mitigate COVID-19
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — If a respiratory droplet from a person infected with COVID-19 lands on a surface, it becomes a possible source of disease spread. […]
Using 4D Printing To Enable Vascularization, Bone Tissue Regeneration, Spinal Fusion
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — Spinal fusion is frequently performed to restore spinal stability in patients with spinal diseases, such as spinal stenosis, vertebral fractures, progressive deformities, […]
Circadian Rhythm Research Could Turn Early Birds into Night Owls
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — How body clocks work could lead to science that can turn an early bird into a night owl or vice versa as […]
Cellphone Converts Into Powerful Chemical Detector
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — Scientists from Texas A&M have developed an extension to an ordinary cellphone that turns it into an instrument capable of detecting chemicals, […]
Polymer-Based Coatings on Metallic Implants Improve Bone-Implant Integration
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — Traffic accidents, tumor resections, and congenital diseases can cause significant trauma, which can lead to large bone deformations and/or bone loss. Although […]
Nontoxic, Flexible Energy Converters Could Power Wearable Devices
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — A wide variety of portable and wearable electronics have become a large part of our daily lives, so a group of Stanford […]
Solar-Powered Desalination Unit Shows Great Promise
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — Despite the vast amount of water on Earth, most of it is nonpotable seawater. Freshwater accounts for only about 2.5% of the […]
Benefits of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Outweigh Its Risks
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is suspected of being linked to a small number of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) cases, which recently emerged […]
Detecting, Exploiting Non-Line-of-Sight Paths for Terahertz Signals in Wireless Communications
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — If a base station in a local area network tries to use a directional beam to transmit a signal to a user […]