On paper, it doesn't seem like Christopher Wolverton's super lithium-rich battery should work. For one, the novel battery uses iron, an inexpensive metal that has notoriously failed in batteries. And in another difficult feat, the battery leverages oxygen to...
Iowa State University plant scientist Patrick Schnable quickly described how he measured the time it takes for two kinds of corn plants to move water from their roots, to their lower leaves and then to their upper leaves.
This was...
Providing safer drinking water to those in need may be a little easier. According to Penn State researchers, a new desalination technique is able to remove salt from water using less energy than previous methods.
"Globally, there is reduced access...
This prototype demonstrates the potential of a new technique for printing flexible, stretchable circuits.
Credit: Jingyan Dong, North Carolina State University
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for directly printing metal circuits, creating flexible, stretchable electronics....
A molecular dynamics model showing a nanoparticle binding to the outer envelope of the human papillomavirus.
Credit: Petr Kral
Viral infections kill millions of people worldwide every year, but currently available antiviral drugs are limited in that they mostly act against...
Researchers can attach sensors to the organ models to give surgeons real-time feedback on how much force they can use during surgery without damaging the tissue.
Credit: McAlpine Research Group
A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has...
Lindsay explored the interactions between a protein, called an integrin (alphaVbeta3), and its target, called a ligand (RGDfC). Lindsay's team was able to manufacture a nanodevice to more finely control a series of experiments with a carefully sized gap...
Hydropower plant (stock image). Scientists have discovered that reservoir islands created by large dams across the world do not maintain the same levels of animal and plant life found prior to flooding.
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New research led by...
Exploded drawing of an archetypal ethoscope. The machine is composed of 2 main parts: an upper case housing the rPi and its camera, and a lower case providing diffused infrared light illumination and support for the experimental arena.
Credit: Giorgio...
PPPL physicist Michael Churchill.
Credit: Elle Starkman
To fuse hydrogen atoms into helium, doughnut-shaped devices called tokamaks must maintain the heat of the ultrahot plasma they control. But like boiling water, plasma has blobs, or bubbles, that percolate within the plasma...
The air vortexes behind the wings has been processed. Work is done Marco Klein Heerenbrink.
Credit: Aron Hejdström
For the first time, researchers have observed that birds that fly actively and flap their wings save energy. Biologists at Lund University in...
