When a baseball pitcher uncorks a nasty curveball, the spinning motion of the ball forces air to flow around it at different speeds, causing the ball to 'break' in one direction. The physics behind this kind of deflection also work at smaller scales.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Researchers are developing tiny, sophisticated technological and biological machines enabling non-invasive, selective therapies. Their creations include genetically modified cells that can be activated via brain waves, and swarms of microrobots that facilitate highly precise application of drugs.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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To help imbibers easily and quickly know when they've had enough, scientists have developed a flexible, wearable patch that can detect a person's blood-alcohol level from his or her sweat.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Researchers developed a hybrid nanosensor incorporating magnetic resonance and fluorescence. Lab testing of milk showed the detector could sense varying concentrations of a pathogenic strain of E. coli known as O157:H7 in less than an hour.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Scientists have created a new method to help researchers discover how much the virus's size matters. By mutating a single amino acid in a bacterial virus, the team drastically changed the size of its protein coating, or capsid.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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New multiferroic material is a big step in march toward ultra-low power electronics.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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An international team of researchers has invented a method to control the formation of defects called 'shear bands' in metals manufacturing processes and discovered microscopic details of how the defects are created.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Researchers put metal-oxides and organic magnets together; applications for electronics in sight.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Researchers have discovered that a newly developed plasmonic fabrication capability and design can improve the performance of biosensors, solar cells and photodetectors.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Researchers have succeeded in linking graphene with another important chemical group, the porphyrins. These new hybrid structures could also be used in the field of molecular electronics, catalysis or even as sensors.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Scientists haver performed characterisation of two large, complex silver nanoclusters of 136 and 374 atoms.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreResearchers have devised a new way to electrically contact graphene with liquid metals rather than typical rigid electrodes such as gold and silver.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Scientists demonstrate optimization and visualization of a catalyst used to convert carbon dioxide waste to methane gas and chemical intermediates.
Sep 21st, 2016
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What if you could easily print a thin layer of material - for use anywhere - that would allow you to create flexible energy harvesters or coolers? That may soon be a reality.
Sep 21st, 2016
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A clever electro-thermal actuator and lever system keeps hard drive recording heads on track.
Sep 21st, 2016
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The pursuit of microscopic drugs that can be tracked as they fight cancer is a step closer.
Sep 21st, 2016
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