Penn engineering research gives optical switches the ‘contrast’ of electronic transistors
Credit: Sajal Dhara Current computer systems represent bits of information, the 1's and 0's of binary code, with electricity. Circuit ...
Month: January 2018
Trust is good, quantum trickery is better
Credit: (Image from Arnon-Friedman et al. Nature Comms 9, 459; 2018). In quantum cryptography, the laws of quantum mechanics are ...
University of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory team up to make the materials of tomorrow
Credit: Matt Hagen/UW Clean Energy Institute Many innovations of 21st century life, from touch screens and electric cars to fiber-optics ...
Lehigh University professor Israel E. Wachs awarded Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship
Credit: Lehigh University Israel E. Wachs, the G. Whitney Snyder Professor in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department at Lehigh ...
New and highly sensitive ELISA technique for bioanalysis of bevacizumab
Credit: Dr. Manal A. El-Gendy et al. This article explores the development and validation of a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ...
Reconstructing an ancient lethal weapon
Credit: Janice Wood Archaeologists are a little like forensic investigators: They scour the remains of past societies, looking for clues ...
A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA
Credit: Al-Hashimi Lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- If you had to copy billions of letters from one sheet of ...
HPV may lurk in your throat
Credit: Katherine Rieth. M.D. Human papilloma virus (HPV), the culprit behind cervical cancer and some forms of head and neck ...
The amazing flexibility of red blood cells
Credit: Ke Xu, UC Berkeley One of today's sharpest imaging tools, super-resolution microscopy, produces sparkling images of what until now ...
Columbia engineers develop flexible lithium battery for wearable electronics
Credit: Yuan Yang/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--Jan. 31, 2018--The rapid development of flexible and wearable electronics is giving rise to ...
MIT engineers explore microfluidics with LEGO bricks
Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of microfluidics involves minute ...
Kids’ well visits linked to lower appendicitis complications
Children in the United States whose families visited a doctor in the previous year were less likely to experience a ...
AAAS announces ‘Research’ as first journal in new Science Partner Journal program
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nonprofit publisher of the Science family of journals, is pleased ...
MD Anderson study evaluates need for biopsies during follow-up care in women with early breast cancer
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center In an analysis of more than 120,000 women diagnosed with and treated for early-stage breast ...
Prostate cancer: Poor prognosis in men with diabetes
Credit: IDM Men with type 2 diabetes are less likely to develop prostate cancer than patients without diabetes. However, the ...
Federico Rosei becomes Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics
Federico Rosei, professor and director of the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre, has received yet another major international distinction ...
The science behind the fizz: How the bubbles make the beverage
From popping a bottle of champagne for a celebration to cracking open a soda while watching the Super Bowl, everyone ...
Biomarker tests could someday help improve outcomes for organ transplant patients
Organ transplants save lives, but the story doesn't end when a patient emerges from the operating room. Rejection episodes, in ...
CRISPR gene-editing comes to life through 3-D animation with real molecular structures
Credit: Animation by Visual Science and Skoltech Visual Science and the Skoltech Institute are pleased to offer a precision 3D ...
Confirmed: Black holes regulate star formation in massive galaxies
Credit: ESO/WFI (Optical), MpIfR/ESO/Apex/ A.Weiss et al. (submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-rays). The centres of massive galaxies are among ...