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Making Droplets Drop Faster: New Nanopatterned Surfaces Could Improve the Efficiency of Powerplants and Desalination Systems
February 23, 2012 — New research offers important new insights into how water droplets form, and ways to pattern the collecting surfaces at the nanoscale to encourage droplets to form more rapidly. These insights could ... > full story -
Faster Way to Catch Cells: New Microfluidic Device Could Be Used to Diagnose and Monitor Cancer and Other Diseases
February 22, 2012 — Separating complex mixtures of cells, such as those found in a blood sample, can offer valuable information for diagnosing and treating disease. However, it may be necessary to search through ... > full story -
Preparations Continue for Launching Engine Icing Research
February 20, 2012 — NASA scientists are making progress in their preparations to mount a detailed research campaign aimed at solving a modern-day aviation mystery involving the unlikely combination of fire and ice ... > full story -
Boiling Breakthrough: Nano-Coating Doubles Rate of Heat Transfer
February 15, 2012 — The old saw that a watched pot never boils may not apply to pots given an ultra-thin layer of aluminum oxide, which researchers have reported can double the heat transfer from a hot surface to a ... > full story -
NASA Landsat's Thermal Infrared Sensor Arrives at Orbital
February 15, 2012 — A new NASA satellite instrument that makes a quantum leap forward in detector technology has arrived at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Gilbert, Ariz. There it will be integrated into the next Landsat ... > full story -
The Indiscretions of a Champagne Bubble Paparazzi
February 14, 2012 — The innermost secrets of champagne bubbles are about to be unveiled by a scientist tackling champagne bubbles from both a physics and a chemistry perspective. To understand what appears to be a ... > full story -
Chemist Applies Google Software to Webs of the Molecular World
February 13, 2012 — The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized. Scientists have adapted Google's PageRank software to create ... > full story -
New 'Cell Assay on a Chip:' Solid Results from Simple Means
February 8, 2012 — A research engineer combined a glass slide, plastic sheets and double-sided tape to build a "diffusion-based gradient generator", a tool to rapidly assess how changing concentrations of specific ... > full story -
More Environmental Rules Needed for Shale Gas, Says Geophysicist
February 6, 2012 — In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the country's tremendous supply of natural gas buried in shale. But the "Halliburton exclusion" passed by Congress ... > full story -
New Way to Study Ground Fractures
February 2, 2012 — Geophysics researchers have created a new way to study fractures by producing elastic waves, or vibrations, through using high-intensity light focused directly on the fracture ... > full story -
New Technology Shows Molecules and Cells in Action
February 1, 2012 — A new affinity capture device provides a platform for viewing cancer cells and other macromolecules in dynamic, life-sustaining liquid ... > full story -
Protein Purification Alternatives
January 26, 2012 — Protein purification, often referred to as downstream processing, is the most costly and time-consuming process in the manufacture of bio-molecules. EU-funded researchers integrated materials science ... > full story
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