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- New microfluidic chip replicates muscle-nerve connection
- Waste not: Edible wax coating slicks liquids with ease
- Asian giant honeybees may move in synchrony to ventilate nests
- Recycling carbon dioxide
- Programmable ions set the stage for general-purpose quantum computers
- Demonstrating strong electric fields in liquid helium for tests of matter-antimatter symmetry
- Perpetual 'ice water': Stable solid-liquid state revealed in nanoparticles
- Birds engage in all types of sleep in flight, but in remarkably small amounts
- Reach in and touch objects in videos
- Rich bugs revealed: Homes in wealthier neighborhoods host a greater diversity of insects
- Most likely Earth-like exoplanets cataloged
- Chemists create vitamin-driven battery
| New microfluidic chip replicates muscle-nerve connection Posted: 03 Aug 2016 06:49 PM PDT Engineers have developed a microfluidic device that replicates the neuromuscular junction -- the vital connection where nerve meets muscle. The device, about the size of a US quarter, contains a single muscle strip and a small set of motor neurons. Researchers can influence and observe the interactions between the two, within a realistic, three-dimensional matrix. |
| Waste not: Edible wax coating slicks liquids with ease Posted: 03 Aug 2016 12:11 PM PDT Materials scientists have created a 'superhydrophobic' coating that easily slicks away viscous liquids like syrup, honey and ketchup. They detail the engineering feat in a new paper that describes synthesizing and testing coatings made from beeswax and carnauba wax, which are edible and nontoxic. |
| Asian giant honeybees may move in synchrony to ventilate nests Posted: 03 Aug 2016 12:11 PM PDT The Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata, builds its large single-comb nests out in the open, making them potentially vulnerable to extremes of temperature that may threaten survival. New research shows that these giant honeybees may use synchronized movements to ventilate and cool their nests. |
| Posted: 03 Aug 2016 11:01 AM PDT Turning carbon dioxide into stored energy sounds like science fiction: researchers have long tried to find simple ways to convert this greenhouse gas into fuels and other useful chemicals. Now, engineers has developed a technique powered by renewable energies such as solar or wind. |
| Programmable ions set the stage for general-purpose quantum computers Posted: 03 Aug 2016 11:01 AM PDT Scientists have introduced the first fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module. |
| Demonstrating strong electric fields in liquid helium for tests of matter-antimatter symmetry Posted: 03 Aug 2016 09:49 AM PDT Physicists and engineers demonstrated that it is possible to use liquid helium to apply an electric field several times larger than that used in previous neutron electric dipole moment experiments, which provides insights into the nature of the universe. |
| Perpetual 'ice water': Stable solid-liquid state revealed in nanoparticles Posted: 03 Aug 2016 09:44 AM PDT Researchers have discovered that gallium nanoparticles can form a solid core surrounded by a liquid outer layer over a temperature span of 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. The discovery marks the first time that this stable phase coexistence phenomenon at the nanoscale has ever been directly observed. |
| Birds engage in all types of sleep in flight, but in remarkably small amounts Posted: 03 Aug 2016 08:17 AM PDT For the first time, researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight. They measured the brain activity of frigatebirds and found that they sleep in flight with either one cerebral hemisphere at a time or both hemispheres simultaneously. Despite being able to engage in all types of sleep in flight, the birds slept less than an hour a day, a mere fraction of the time spent sleeping on land. How frigatebirds are able to perform adaptively on such little sleep remains a mystery. |
| Reach in and touch objects in videos Posted: 03 Aug 2016 06:52 AM PDT A new technique called Interactive Dynamic Video (IDV) lets you reach in and 'touch' objects in videos. IDV has many possible uses, from filmmakers producing new kinds of visual effects to architects determining if buildings are structurally sound. |
| Rich bugs revealed: Homes in wealthier neighborhoods host a greater diversity of insects Posted: 03 Aug 2016 06:52 AM PDT Researchers are looking beyond homes' nooks and crannies to consider the socioeconomic context of insect-packed households. A team of researchers surveyed the number of different insects in 50 urban homes and determined that wealthier neighborhoods host a greater number of arthropod species types than their lower socioeconomic counterparts. |
| Most likely Earth-like exoplanets cataloged Posted: 03 Aug 2016 06:52 AM PDT An international team of researchers has pinpointed which of the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission are most likely to be similar to Earth. The research outlines 216 Kepler planets located within the 'habitable zone' -- the area around a star in which a planet's surface could hold liquid water. Of those they list 20 that are the best candidates to be habitable rocky planets like Earth. |
| Chemists create vitamin-driven battery Posted: 03 Aug 2016 04:28 AM PDT A team chemists has created a battery that stores energy in a biologically derived unit, paving the way for cheaper consumer electronics that are easier on the environment.The battery is similar to many commercially-available high-energy lithium-ion batteries with one important difference. It uses flavin from vitamin B2 as the cathode: the part that stores the electricity that is released when connected to a device. |
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