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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 [...]

[...] conductive than ITO, but is also far tougher. The coating, developed by a team led by assistant professor of polymer science Yu Zhu, is comprised of a network of linked copper nanowires. It [...]

[...] to reproduce functional characteristics of the retina,” says M Valeria Canto-Soler, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “but when we began [...]

[...] oven, depending upon the objects at hand. To achieve these capabilities, Ashutosh Saxena, assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University, is training robots to comprehend directions in [...]

[...] structure; all of these things are consistent with the Standard Model,” says Markus Klute, Assistant Professor of physics at MIT and leader of the international research project. The researchers say [...]

[...] to seek help from the whole world when it’s puzzled by something,” says Rajesh Rao, associate professor of computer science and engineering and director of the Center for Sensorimotor [...]

[...] 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 [...]

[...] . To help shed light on the role of these bacteria, a team of researchers led by MIT associate professor Eric Alm recently tracked fluctuations in the bacterial populations of two research [...]

[...] 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 [...]

[...] 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 [...]

[...] , I think, is a good way to get to the smaller robots.” The work was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Research at Harvard, and the Air Force [...]

[...] in the journal Material Research Letters, and the second appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Source: NC State The post Bamboo inspires new process for making metals tougher [...]

[...] 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 [...]

[...] thrown in). The research was recently published in the online journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Source: North Carolina State University [...]

[...] older structures, one solution involves attaching sensors to them. Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Eastern Finland are working on an alternative, however – an [...]

[...] research was recently published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Source: North Carolina State University The post Scientists developing remote-control cyborg moths appeared first on Think. [...]

[...] those touting the properties of some new space-age material. But now researchers at North Carolina State University have created steel that is stronger than steel using a process that increases the [...]

[...] T-1000 reassembles itself from thousands of blobs of molten metal? Researchers from North Carolina State University (NCSU) have taken the first steps to such science fiction becoming reality by [...]