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Viruses as communication molecules: Modeling viral aerosol transmission
How long do virus-laden particles persist in an elevator after a person infected with COVID-19 leaves? And is there a way to detect those particles? A group of electrical engineers and computer scientists at KAUST set out ...
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Self-assembly of stimuli-responsive coiled-coil fibrous hydrogels
Jin Kim Montclare, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, with affilations at NYU Langone Health and NYU College of Dentistry, directed this research with first author Michael Meleties, fellow Ph.D. student Dustin ...
Soft Matter
Jun 22, 2021
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Do bubble cascades form only in a glass of Guinness beer?
As far back as 1959, brewers at Guinness developed a system that fundamentally altered the texture of their draft beer. Now, researchers from Japan have solved the physics of Guinness' cascading flow, which will have widespread ...
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Jun 22, 2021
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Harnessing sound for health
When a person develops a kidney stone or a gall stone—hard accumulations of minerals and other compounds created by the body—they can experience a great deal of pain and discomfort. In more advanced cases, these stones ...
Soft Matter
Jun 18, 2021
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Scientists identify properties that allow proteins to strengthen under pressure
A new rubber band stretches, but then snaps back into its original shape and size. Stretched again, it does the same. But what if the rubber band was made of a material that remembered how it had been stretched? Just as our ...
Soft Matter
Jun 16, 2021
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Using microorganisms to quickly monitor water quality
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have demonstrated a technology that rapidly detects pollutants in water by measuring their impacts on swimming microorganisms.
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Jun 16, 2021
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Sticky baseballs: The physics of the latest scandal in Major League Baseball
Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers' modifying the ball's surface is part of that long history. Adding to the lore of cheating is a new scandal involving pitchers who may be applying sticky substances—what ...
General Physics
Jun 15, 2021
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Normal breathing sends saliva droplets 7 feet; masks shorten this
The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control recommend keeping a certain distance between people to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These social distancing recommendations are estimated from a variety ...
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Jun 09, 2021
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X-ray flash imaging of laser-induced bubbles and shockwaves in water
Researchers have created tiny bubbles in high-pressure water via intense focused lasers. Under these conditions, the bubbles expand at supersonic speed and push a shockwave consisting of a spherical shell of highly compressed ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 09, 2021
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Artificial intelligence and data mining are being used to measure aerodynamic flows
Developing new ways to measure turbulent flows that are more efficient and reliable is the main objective of the NEXTFLOW research project at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), funded by an ERC Starting Grant from ...
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Jun 07, 2021
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How coronavirus aerosols travel through lungs
More than 65% of inhaled coronavirus particles reach the deepest region of our lungs where damage to cells can lead to low blood oxygen levels, new research has discovered, and more of these aerosols reach the right lung ...
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Jun 07, 2021
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Controlling magnetization by surface acoustic waves
Using the circular vibration of surface acoustic waves, a collaborative research group have successfully controlled the magnetization of a ferromagnetic thin film.
General Physics
May 27, 2021
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To make particles flow more efficiently, put an obstacle in their way
Scientists used to perform experiments by stirring biological and chemical agents into test tubes.
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May 14, 2021
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Simulating sneezes and coughs to show how COVID-19 spreads
Two groups of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have published papers on the droplets of liquid sprayed by coughs or sneezes and how far they can travel under different conditions.
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May 11, 2021
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3D bioprinting technique controls cell orientation
3D bioprinting can create engineered scaffolds that mimic natural tissue. Controlling the cellular organization within those engineered scaffolds for regenerative applications is a complex and challenging process.
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May 05, 2021
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Surfaces can be designed with antiviral properties to mitigate COVID-19
If a respiratory droplet from a person infected with COVID-19 lands on a surface, it becomes a possible source of disease spread. This is known as the fomite route of disease spread, in which the aqueous phase of the respiratory ...
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May 04, 2021
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A physics perspective on wound healing
In material physics understanding how systems interact across the interfaces separating them is of central interest. But can physical models clarify similar concepts in living systems, such as cells? Physicists at the University ...
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May 03, 2021
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Understanding the charge pumping and relaxation of the chiral anomaly in a Dirac semimetal
The 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals can be characterized by a charge chirality with the parallel or antiparallel locking of electron spin in its momentum. Such materials can exhibit a chiral magnetic effect associated with the ...
Stretching a substrate provides a faster way to control anisotropic wetting
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Twente has found that stretching a substrate provides a new and easier way to control anisotropic wetting. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review ...
Faster air exchange in buildings not always beneficial for coronavirus levels
Vigorous and rapid air exchanges might not always be a good thing when it comes to addressing levels of coronavirus particles in a multiroom building, according to a new modeling study.
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