Researchers have developed a controlled-release drug delivery system that uses focused ultrasound as an active induction method.
Uncovering Nature’s Design Strategies
Parametric modeling tools from the architectural design world are combined with 3D printing and material testing technologies from materials science to populate gaps in anatomical space.
Engineering the Biomolecular Machinery for Synthetic Biological Circuits
The control of gene expression is an important tool for metabolic engineering, the design of synthetic gene networks, gene-function analysis, and protein manufacturing. This review article discusses the potential of the modular design of novel regulatory proteins fashioned after the topology and mechanochemical properties of the lactose repressor.
MetOp-C: All Good Things Come in Threes
The third MetOp weather satellite is being put to the test.
Direct Observation of Negative Capacitance in Ferroelectric Materials
Recently, negative capacitance was first demonstrated in epitaxial ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate, proving that a direct measurement of the phenomenon is possible.
Tiny electronic device can monitor heart, recognize speech
CU Boulder, Northwestern researchers lead project to measure acoustical vibrations of heart, vocal cords.
Flexible dye-sensitized solar cell photoanodes
Scientists from Singapore and China have developed flexible titanium dioxide photoanodes with a multilayered structure.
Confined catalytic Janus swimmers in a crowded channel: geometry-driven rectification transients and directional locking
Self-propelled Janus particles, acting as microscopic vehicles, have the potential of performing complex tasks on a microscopic scale.
Topological phase transitions: 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one half to David J. Thouless and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
Molecular machines honored in 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.