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Portable Superconductivity Systems for Small Motors

WASHINGTON, D.C., February, 7, 2017 — Superconductivity, where electrical currents course unhindered through a material, is one of modern physics’ most intriguing scientific discoveries. It has many […]

Spider Silk Demonstrates Spider Man-Like Abilities

WASHINGTON, D.C., January, 31, 2017 — Our muscles are amazing structures. With the trigger of a thought, muscle filaments slide past each other and bundles of contracting […]

Understanding Breakups

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 30, 2017 — As interest and demand for nanotechnology continues to rise, so will the need for nanoscale printing and spraying, which relies on […]

How a bacterial protein’s structure aids biomedical studies

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 31, 2017 — A light-sensing protein from a salt-loving, sulfur-forming microbe has proved key to developing methods essential to advanced drug discovery, understanding human […]

Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2017 — Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role […]

Surprising results found in the swimming mechanism of microorganism-related model

WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 — For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Germany’s RWTH Aachen University, has explored […]

Zeroing in on the true nature of fluids within nanocapillaries

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 10, 2017 — Shrinking the investigation of objects down to the nanometer scale often reveals new properties of matter that have no equivalent for […]

New Active Filaments Mimic Biology to Transport Nano-Cargo

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 10, 2017 — Inspired by micro-scale motions of nature, a group of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the Institute of […]

How to 3-D Print Your Own Sonic Tractor Beam

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 3, 2017 — Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single-sided acoustic tractor […]