The Vessel Not Taken: Understanding Disproportionate Blood Flow
Each time a blood vessel splits into smaller vessels, red blood cells (RBCs) are presented with the same decision: Take the left capillary or the right. While […]
A Better Way to Control Crystal Vibrations
The vibrational motion of an atom in a crystal propagates to neighboring atoms, which leads to wavelike propagation of the vibrations throughout the crystal. The way in […]
Robotic Assembly of the World’s Smallest House — Even A Mite Doesn’t Fit Through the Door!
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2018 — A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new microrobotics system that pushes forward the frontiers […]
Building Better Beta Peptides
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2018 — Designing bioscaffolds offers bioengineers greater flexibility when it comes to tissue engineering and biomedicine. Systems that use self-assembling peptides can create […]
Design for Magnetoelectric Device May Improve Your Memory
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 4, 2018 — For years, manufacturers have offered computers with increasing amounts of memory packed into smaller devices. But semiconductor companies can’t reduce the […]
A Potentially Cheap, Efficient and Eco-Friendly System for Purifying Natural Gas
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 3, 2018 — Fundamental researchers at the Colorado School of Mines have proposed a novel two-part system for separating impurities from natural gas in […]
Sweating the Small Stuff
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 1, 2018 — When people sweat, they unknowingly release a wide range of chemicals that can noninvasively inform clinicians on anything from stress hormone levels […]
Molecular Evolution: How the Building Blocks of Life May Form In Space
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2018 — In a laboratory experiment that mimics astrophysical conditions, with cryogenic temperatures in an ultrahigh vacuum, scientists used an electron gun to […]
Reconstructing What Makes Us Tick
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2018 — Cardiac arrhythmia results when the usual symphony of electric pulses that keep the heart’s muscles in sync becomes chaotic. Although symptoms […]