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Soft Matter Aug 18, 2021

High-speed camera captures a water jet's splashy impact as it pierces a droplet

Squirting a jet of water through a drop of liquid may sound like idle fun, but if done precisely, and understood thoroughly, the splashy exercise could help scientists identify ways to inject fluids such as vaccines through ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Aug 13, 2021

Why boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces

When you're frying something in a skillet and some droplets of water fall into the pan, you may have noticed those droplets skittering around on top of the film of hot oil. Now, that seemingly trivial phenomenon has been ...

Soft Matter Aug 10, 2021

Movement of small water droplets controlled by means of a magnet

Droplet manipulation is kindling great interest in several fields, including technological applications and basic studies in dynamic systems. The Lab-on-a-chip and microfluidics community is particularly interested in the ...

Biochemistry Aug 5, 2021

Using two CRISPR enzymes, a COVID diagnostic in only 20 minutes

Frequent, rapid testing for COVID-19 is critical to controlling the spread of outbreaks, especially as new, more transmissible variants emerge.

Materials Science Jul 30, 2021

Intentional cracks and wrinkles provide low-cost option for medical screening

Size matters when it comes to sorting biological materials. From identifying pathogens to screening for drug treatments, the ability to quickly identify and separate particles based on their size is an increasingly important ...

Materials Science Jul 29, 2021

Simulated microgravity system created to experiment with materials

Crystallization studies conducted in space laboratories, which are costly and unaffordable for most research laboratories, showed the valuable effects of microgravity during the crystal growth process and the morphogenesis ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jul 22, 2021

Researchers develop tool to drastically speed up the study of enzymes

For much of human history, animals and plants were perceived to follow a different set of rules than the rest of the universe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this culminated in a belief that living organisms were infused ...

Cell & Microbiology Jul 12, 2021

Researchers unlock behavior of rare cells that evade antibiotics by 'playing dead'

Researchers have developed a new microfluidic platform to track a very rare type of cell that can survive antibiotic treatments. The results have important implications for microbiologists learning about the cellular control ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 7, 2021

New microfluidic device delivers mRNA nanoparticles a hundred times faster

The COVID vaccines currently being deployed were developed with unprecedented speed, but the mRNA technology at work in some of them is an equally impressive success story. Because any desired mRNA sequence can be synthesized ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jul 1, 2021

Taking cues from nature, breakthrough 'cellular fluidics' technology could have sweeping impacts

Inspired by the way plants absorb and distribute water and nutrients, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have developed a groundbreaking method for transporting liquids and gases using 3D-printed lattice ...

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