Sensitive animal noses can sniff out trace particles, such as volatile organic compounds, in the ambient air. Humans, on the...
Heart problems, such as tachycardia and fibrillation, arise mainly from imperfections in the way electric currents propagate through the heart....
An experimental discovery of a fundamental physical phenomenon is not something that happens often. Yet this is what Skoltech researchers...
Antiferromagnets have zero net magnetization and are insensitive to external magnetic field perturbations. Antiferromagnetic spintronic devices hold great promise for...
Most materials—from rubber bands to steel beams—thin out as they are stretched, but engineers can use origami’s interlocking ridges and...
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully enhanced technology to lift small particles using sound waves. Their “acoustic tweezers” could...
Lasers are everywhere. Devices that use them transmit information and enable the existence of long-distance communications and the internet; they...
Pumps, in a nutshell, are devices that use cyclic motion to attain the steady transport of some cargo. In a...
The flow of time from the past to the future is a central feature of how we experience the world....
It’s a little-known fact that tiny particles like blood cells drift sideways when moving past a rough surface, but this...
Scientists have long been concerned with trying to understand how cells move, for example in pursuit of new ways to...
When some materials are cooled to a certain temperature, they lose electric resistance, becoming superconductors. In this state, an electric...
