Thermally Driven Spin Current in DNA
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — An emerging field that has generated a wide range of interest, spin caloritronics, is an offshoot of spintronics that explores how […]
Shaken, and Stirred: Scaling Up Bioreactors’ Fluid Dynamics
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2018 — Bioreactors are widely used to produce different therapeutics in the biopharmaceutical and regenerative medicine industries. Drug development relies on small multi-well […]
A Simple Trick for Modeling Calcium
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2018 — Calcium is essential for our bodies to function. Calcium ions enable cells to communicate with one another, allowing neurons to interact, […]
Engineering a New Spin for Disease Diagnostics
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2018 — Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a new platform with the potential to extract tiny circulating biomarkers of […]
American Service Industry Approaching a ‘Tipping Point’
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 27, 2018 — The average rate at which Americans tip for services has been increasing steadily for decades, which creates a growing pay disparity […]
MEMS Chips Get Metalenses
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 20, 2018 — Lens technologies have advanced across all scales, from digital cameras and high bandwidth in fiber optics to the LIGO lab instruments. Now, […]
Why Polymer Solar Cells Deserve Their Place In the Sun
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 20, 2018 — Unlike traditional silicon solar cells, organic polymer solar cells (PSCs) may never cover the hillsides of a megawatt solar farm. But, […]
New Turbulent Transport Modeling Shows Multiscale Fluctuations in Heated Plasma
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 13, 2018 — Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics, used a “reduced […]
Three’s Company: New Alloy Sets Magnetism Benchmark
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 13, 2018 — The burgeoning field of spintronics leverages electron spins — as opposed to their charge — to enhance solid-state devices like hard […]