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[...] . Water droplet networks, also known as droplet interface bilayers, consist of numerous water droplets encased within lipid films. Many research efforts are looking into how well networks of these [...]

[...] Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation, they can gain [...]

[...] the hairs are pointing. Utilizing this characteristic, it’s possible to guide the path of water droplets moving across the surface of the material. They can even be made to roll uphill, by bending [...]

[...] and recommend dietary changes that could help avoid it. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the MIT Whitaker Health Sciences Fund, and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of [...]

[...] into extinction. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the MIT Laser Biomedical Research Center. The post Forced mutations doom HIV [...]

[...] engineering. The work received support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. The post Light pulses control graphene’s electrical behavior appeared first on [...]

[...] , to apply their own watermarked logo. The research was funded by DARPA and the National Science Foundation, among others, and was originally published in the journal Advanced Materials. In the [...]

[...] , printed version,” says Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and one of the Science paper’s co-authors. “And [...]

[...] Wang, a software engineer at Foursquare who was a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the research was done. After an initial deployment involving 21 [...]

[...] can interact very strongly,” said researcher Hakan Türeci, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton. “In one mode of operation, light sloshes back and forth like a liquid; in [...]

[...] research team also included Jing Kong, the ITT Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, who provided the graphene samples used for the experiments; physics postdoc Chun [...]

[...] . “I think these new techniques are very practical for many fields in biology,” said assistant professor of biology Viviana Gradinaru, who led the research. “When you can just look through [...]

[...] closer synchrony. “It’s like we replaced their normal conductor with Muti,” said Joel Voss, assistant professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, [...]

[...] condenses from warm, humid air on the outside of a cold glass. Chuanhua Duan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, [...]

[...] found that explained a lot of that variance was the diet.” Alm and Lawrence David, an assistant professor at Duke University and the paper’s lead author, began the study in 2009, around the [...]

[...] to the occurrence of daily metabolic cycles in marine bacteria,” says Andrew Allen, an associate professor of microbial and environmental genomics at the J. Craig Venter Institute. “This study [...]

[...] only $250,000 and higher microscopes are capable of generating,” says Rajesh Menon, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Utah. “Miniature [...]

[...] considering it can be manipulated by less than one volt,” said Dr. Michael Dickey, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NCSU and lead author of the research. “We can [...]

[...] might be used to power electronic devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, and two others, are published in the journal Applied [...]

[...] describing the advance appears in this week’s edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Below is a short clip of the artificial skin in action. Source: University of [...]

[...] such as cancer. A paper on the teams work is available in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The video below displays the device at work, courtesy of MIT. Source: MIT [...]

[...] airborne molecules.” Their research was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The video below shows how the oil film prevents the droplets from merging. [...]

[...] no longer causes active disease.” In the new study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of July 28, the researchers discovered exactly how the drug, [...]

[...] Buckyballs (or Buckminsterfullerene), the soccer ball-like structures of 60 carbon atoms, have a new playmate. Previously only theorized, researchers from Brown University in the US [...]

[...] charge effectively. In its purest form, graphene is a very flat, one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms. Because they are so flat, when laid out next to each other on a flat surface, the sheets tend [...]