Material Can Turn Sunlight, Heat and Movement Into Electricity — All at Once
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 2017 — Many forms of energy surround you: sunlight, the heat in your room and even your own movements. All that energy — […]
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 […]