New Material for Splitting Water
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 18, 2018 — Solar energy is clean and abundant. But when the sun isn’t shining, you must store the energy in batteries or through […]
Blowing Bubbles for Cancer Treatment
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2018 — Embolization — the use of various techniques to cut off the blood vessels that feed tissue growth — has gained traction […]
Does Living Near Wind Turbines Negatively Impact Human Health?
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2018 — Wind turbines are a source of clean renewable energy, but some people who live nearby describe the shadow flicker, the audible […]
Building Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Computing
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2018 — Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are […]
The Price of Chaos: A New Model Virtually Pits New Investors Against Experienced Ones
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2018 — Financial investing attracts a range of casual neophytes to Wall Street financiers. Variation in expertise and risk-taking behaviors among investors regularly […]
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 […]