Imagine yourself swimming in a pool: It's the movement of your arms and legs, not the viscosity of the water, that mostly dictates the speed and direction that you swim.
Butterfly wings, peacock feathers, opals and pearls are some of nature's jewels that use nanostructures to dazzle us with color. It's accomplished through the way light reaches our eyes after passing through the submicroscopic ...
The dream of personalized medicine 鈥� in which diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile 鈥� may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of nations with ...
A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is disengaged from the corkscrew-like flagellum by a protein clutch, Indiana University Bloomington and Harvard University scientists ...
Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamondlike crystals to improve optical communications and other technologies.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, creating one can have as much value to the illustrator as to the intended audience. This is the case with "Picturing to Learn," a project in which college students create pencil drawings ...
The same rules of physics that govern molecules as they condense from gas to liquid, or freeze from liquid to solid, also apply to the activity patterns of neurons in the human brain. University of Chicago mathematician Jack ...
Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper鈥攍iving and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting solids. However important these liquid/solid boundaries may ...
Molecular machines 鈥� tiny machines made of molecules that do mechanical work 鈥� are usually thought to operate in a state of non-equilibrium. This makes sense, considering that macro-sized machines operate at non-equilibrium, ...
UCLA scientists have designed and mass-produced billions of fluorescent microscale particles in the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet in an 鈥渁lphabet soup鈥� displaying 鈥渆xquisite fidelity of the shapes.鈥�
