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Mechanical properties of stem cells can foretell what they will become

To become better healers, tissue engineering need a timely and reliable way to obtain enough raw materials: cells that either already are or can become the tissue they need to build. In a new study, Brown ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Images capture split personality of dense suspensions

Stir lots of small particles into water, and the resulting thick mixture appears highly viscous. When this dense suspension slips through a nozzle and forms a droplet, however, its behavior momentarily reveals ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Pesticide additives cause drifting droplets, but can be controlled

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemical additives that help agricultural pesticides adhere to their targets during spraying can lead to formation of smaller "satellite" droplets that cause those pesticides to drift into ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The perfect liquid -- now even more perfect

Ultra hot quark-gluon-plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle accelerators, is supposed to be the "most perfect fluid" in the world. Previous theories imposed a limit on how "liquid" fluids can ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

New device measures viscosity of ketchup and cosmetics

A device that can measure and predict how liquids flow under different conditions will ensure consumer products – from make up to ketchup – are of the right consistency.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bees, and similar nectar feeders, get sweeter juice with dipping tongues

A field of flowers may seem innocuous -- but for the birds and bees that depend on it for sustenance, that floral landscape can be a battlefield mined with predators and competitors. The more efficient a pollinator is in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists capture microscopic origins of thinning and thickening fluids

(PhysOrg.com) -- In things thick and thin: Cornell physicists explain how fluids – such as paint or paste - behave by observing how micron-sized suspended particles dance in real time. Using high-speed ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New method for making human-based gelatin

Scientists are reporting development of a new approach for producing large quantities of human-derived gelatin that could become a substitute for some of the 300,000 tons of animal-based gelatin produced annually for gelatin-type ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two professors from the University of Illinois; one specializing in materials science, the other in electrical engineering, have combined their talents to take the idea of printing circuits ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Physicists hit on mathematical description of superfluid dynamics

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has been 100 years since the discovery of superconductivity, a state achieved when mercury was cooled, with the help of liquid helium, to nearly the coldest temperature achievable to form ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using magnets to help prevent heart attacks

If a person's blood becomes too thick it can damage blood vessels and increase the risk of heart attacks. But a Temple University physicist has discovered that he can thin the human blood by subjecting it to a magnetic field.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Long-standing question about swimming in elastic liquids, answered

A biomechanical experiment conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has answered a long-standing theoretical question: Will microorganisms swim faster or slower in elastic fluids? ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cell viscosity research improves our knowledge of cancer cells

EU-funded researchers from Germany and Poland have made some groundbreaking discoveries about cell cytoplasm viscosity, which could further our knowledge of the cytoplasm of cancer cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mixing fluids efficiently in confined spaces: Let the fingers do the working

Getting two fluids to mix in small or confined spaces is a big problem in many industries where, for instance, the introduction of one fluid can help extract another — like water pumped underground can release oil trapped ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mars Express sees deep fractures on Mars

Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep and probably ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast