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How lab-grown blood vessels can help us understand malaria

Blood circulates a hundred thousand times in our body each day to provide nutrients and support to tissues. This circulation is carried out by blood vessels in a highly organized and efficient transport system. Large vessels are somewhat like highways, carrying large volumes of blood... click to read more

  • Caitlin Howard | Graduate Student at Department of Bioengineering; Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington
  • Joseph D. Smith | Professor at Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington.
  • Ying Zheng | Professor at Department of Bioengineering; Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington
Views 3500
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Oct 28, 2020
Making non-magnetic photons feel a taste for magnetism

Light consists of chargeless particles called photons. While electrons, being charged, get deflected into curved paths when placed in a magnetic field, the chargeless photons do not feel a real magnetic field the same way. Devising an “artificial” or “fictitious” magnetic field for photons would... click to read more

  • Avik Dutt | Postdoctoral Scholar at Ginzton Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
  • Shanhui Fan | Professor at Ginzton Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Views 5156
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Oct 19, 2020
The solid which conducts heat best

Controlling the flow of heat has been one of the earliest technological tasks conceived by humans. Think of putting on clothes and building houses, which emerged well before written communication. However, it was only in the late nineteenth century that the nature of heat was... click to read more

  • Yo Machida | Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Kamran Behnia | Senior Researcher at École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI), Paris, France
Views 7837
Reading time 3 min
published on Oct 15, 2020
DNA of Things: how a plastic bunny got DNA

Can you imagine storing files inside your everyday objects? This may sound like science fiction, but in our work, we give a glimpse of a future where all products contain their production plans and user manuals inside preventing the loss of information for thousands of... click to read more

Views 4687
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Sep 14, 2020
Enabling a hydrogen-fueled future

Due to its nature as a clean fuel, there has been substantial interest in recent decades in developing hydrogen fuel cells and storage technologies. However, this "hydrogen economy" is currently limited by the fact that hydrogen is known to significantly reduce the toughness of steels.... click to read more

  • Eason Chen | Research Fellow at Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • Julie M. Cairney | Professor at Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Views 3758
Reading time 4.5 min
published on Sep 1, 2020