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Watching Fluid Flow at Nanometer Scales: Tiny Nanowires Can Lift Liquids as Effectively as Tubes
April 1, 2013 — Imagine if you could drink a glass of water just by inserting a solid wire into it and sucking on it as though it were a soda straw. It turns out that if you were tiny enough, that method would work ... > full story -
Head-on Collisions Between DNA-Code Reading Machineries Accelerate Gene Evolution
March 29, 2013 — The bacteria Bacillus subtilis places some of their genes in prime collision paths for the moving molecular machineries that read the DNA code. This spatial-organization tactic to evolve and adapt ... > full story -
New Technologies Combat Invasive Species
March 29, 2013 — A new research paper by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Environmental Change Initiative demonstrates how two cutting-edge technologies can provide a sensitive and real-time ... > full story -
Even Graphene Has Weak Spots
March 28, 2013 — Less-than-perfect sheets of atom-thick graphene show unexpected weakness, according to ... > full story -
Biological Transistor Enables Computing Within Living Cells
March 28, 2013 — Bioengineers have taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. Scientists have used a biological transistor made from genetic material -- DNA and RNA -- in place ... > full story -
Light May Recast Copper as Chemical Industry 'Holy Grail'
March 28, 2013 — Wouldn't it be convenient if you could reverse the rusting of your car by shining a bright light on it? It turns out that this concept works for undoing oxidation on copper nanoparticles, and it ... > full story -
Swarming Robots Could Be the Servants of the Future
March 28, 2013 — Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of ... > full story -
Materials: Magnetic Mystery Solved
March 27, 2013 — Defects in metal–organic frameworks induce low-temperature ferromagnetism and could yield novel materials for ... > full story -
Semiconductors: Touching Moments With a Radiant Outcome
March 27, 2013 — Microstructures made of adjoining semiconductor disks could lead to powerful nanoscale ... > full story -
Quantum Computing? Physicists' New Technique for Cooling Molecules May Be a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing
March 27, 2013 — At the heart of next-generation computers may be a collection of ultracold molecules held at temperatures a mere fraction of a degree above absolute zero. By combining two traditional atomic cooling ... > full story
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