Bringing together soft, malleable living cells with hard, inflexible electronics can be a difficult task. UChicago researchers have developed a new method to face this challenge by utilizing microscopic structures to build ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 22, 2021
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For the first time, labs around the world can 3-D print their own precision microscopes to analyse samples and detect diseases, thanks to an open-source design created at the University of Bath.
Optics & Photonics
May 4, 2020
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When you knock on a melon to see if it's ripe, you are using sound waves to probe the structure of the material inside. Physicists at the University of Chicago were using the same concept to explore how sound waves travel ...
General Physics
Feb 3, 2020
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A hundred years ago, "2d" meant a two-penny, or 1-inch, nail. Today, "2-D" encompasses a broad range of atomically thin flat materials, many with exotic properties not found in the bulk equivalents of the same materials, ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 6, 2019
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Cell particles move more quickly through a crowded cellular environment when the crowding molecules are non-uniformly distributed. New research also shows that particle transport in crowded cells can actually be faster than ...
Nanophysics
Aug 30, 2019
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Made infamous by outbreaks on cruise ships, norovirus can really ruin a vacation, causing severe vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain. But the highly infectious virus can also strike closer to home, with water- and foodborne ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 27, 2019
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A new type of microscope may give doctors a better idea of how safely and effectively a medication will perform in the body.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 27, 2019
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Advances with photoswitches could lead to a smartphone that's soft and flexible and shaped like a hand so you can wear it as a glove, for example. Or a paper-thin computer screen that you can roll up like a window shade when ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 31, 2019
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It's easy to make bubbles, but try making hundreds of thousands of them a minute—all the same size.
Soft Matter
Dec 6, 2018
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A team of University of Alberta engineers developed a new way to produce electrical power that can charge handheld devices or sensors that monitor anything from pipelines to medical implants.The discovery sets a new world ...
Nanophysics
Dec 11, 2017
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