How blood cells deform, recover when traveling through tiny channels
Two different types of shape recovery behaviors for red blood cells traveling through microfluidic channels may pave the way to new diagnostic toolsCredit: A. Amirouche,...
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Simulating borehole ballooning helps ensure safe drilling of deep-water oil, gas
Experimental study on borehole ballooning leads to a device which may help prevent serious drilling accidentsCredit: Reyu Gao WASHINGTON, April 28, 2020 -- A device...
Key progress on the MRI compatible DBS electrodes and simultaneous DBS-fMRI
Credit: College of Engineering, Peking University Simultaneous deep brain stimulation (DBS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is critical for understanding the functional neural networks...
Fused-ring electron acceptor with 3D exciton and charge transport
Credit: Zhan Xiaowei Recently, Professor Zhan Xiaowei's group from the College of Engineering at Peking University made new progress in non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar...
New HKBU-led study unveils COVID-19 transmission patterns and reopening plans
Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in lockdowns in different parts of the world, from the US to many European nations,...
Finding the genes to build a better cancer treatment
Credit: WSU Scientists are one step closer to understanding how the cancer-fighting drug Taxol is produced by trees. In a recent paper published in the...
MA3Bi2I9 single-crystal enables X-ray detection down to nanograys per second
Credit: ©Science China Press Sensitive X-ray detectors are essential for medical radiography, industrial inspection and security screening. However, commercially available X-ray instruments require high dosages...
Is planet Earth young or old?
Credit: World Scientific The Age of the Earth -- A Physicist's Odyssey spells out how the age of our planet has been determined over the years....
X-ray analysis sheds light on construction and conservation of artefacts from Henry VIII’s warship
21st century X-ray technology has allowed University of Warwick scientists to peer back through time at the production of the armour worn by the crew...
Joan W. Conaway elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Credit: Stowers Institute KANSAS CITY, MO--The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is pleased to announce that Joan Weliky Conaway, PhD, a Stowers Investigator since 2001,...
A leap in using silicon for battery anodes
Novel nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredientCredit: Illustration by Michael Perkins/PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. -- The same material you'll find at the...
The truth lies in the soil: How human activity leaves a chemical footprint in soils
Researchers explore how natural processes determine the distribution of chemical elements in soils and highlight the effect of miningCredit: Earth Science Frontiers The Earth's surface...
TAMA300 blazes trail for improved gravitational wave astronomy
Credit: NAOJ Researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have used the infrastructure of the former TAMA300 gravitational wave detector in Mitaka, Tokyo...
Success in specific detection of molecules using deformation of a single atomic sheet
Towards diagnostic techniques using smartphonesCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview Associate Prof. Kazuhiro Takahashi and Mr. Shin Kidane (Master's Program)...
Smart contact lenses that diagnose and treat diabetes
Credit: Sei Kwang Hahn (POSTECH) Diabetes is called an incurable disease because once it develops, it does not disappear regardless of treatment in modern medicine....
