Lack of Damage After Secondary Impacts Surprises Researchers
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2020 — When a material is subjected to an extreme load in the form of a shock or blast wave, damage often forms internally […]
Brexit’s Effect on Research Networks: Lower Local and Global Efficiency, Reorganization of Research Communities
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2020 — The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, a move known as Brexit, took effect Jan. 31, 2020. The results of this […]
Repeated Coughing Seriously Degrades Face Mask Efficiency
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2020 — Face masks are thought to slow the spread of viruses, including the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but little is known about […]
Flushing Toilets Create Clouds of Virus-Containing Particles
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2020 — Researchers used a computer simulation to show how a flushing toilet can create a cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets that is large […]
Determining Effective Magnetic Moment of Multicore Nanoparticles
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2020 — Magnetic nanoparticles, a class of nanoparticles that can be manipulated by magnetic fields, have a wide range of technical and biomedical applications, […]
Predicting Cancer Behavior Requires Better Understanding of Tumor Cells
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2020 — Our ability to predict who will get cancer, how a patient will respond to treatment, or if a patient will relapse is […]
Survival of Coronavirus in Different Cities, on Different Surfaces
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2020 — One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the disease remains alive after someone infected […]
Paper-Based Device Provides Low-Power, Long-Term Method for Analyzing Sweat
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2020 — Human sweat contains several biomolecules the research community is exploring for noninvasive medical testing. Analyzing sweat for research, however, is often expensive, […]
Biohybrid Model Uses Organic Lungs, Synthetic Muscles to Re-Create Respiration Mechanics
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2020 — Benchtop tools for studying the respiratory system misrepresent the interdependence between the diaphragm, abdomen and lungs. Meanwhile, computational models often hide the […]