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World’s smallest radio receiver has building blocks the size of two atoms
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made the world’s smallest radio...
Dec 19, 20162 min read
New liquid biopsy chip that detects metastatic cancer cells in blood
A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) can trap and identify metastatic cancer cells in a...
Dec 16, 20165 min read
Finding Diamonds in the Rough
During the kraft process used to convert wood into wood pulp, the structural material lignin is partially converted into molecules like...
Dec 13, 20162 min read
Faster (cheaper) method for making big bioactive ring molecules
Ring molecules called cyclic depsipeptides play an important role in living organisms. Microbes make them as part of their chemical...
Dec 13, 20163 min read
Microbubbles and ultrasound open the blood-brain barrier to administer drugs
The impassable blood-brain barrier prevents microorganisms from entering our brain, however it also blocks medicines that could help...
Dec 6, 20163 min read
For the first time, scientists catch water molecules passing the proton baton
Water conducts electricity, but the process by which this familiar fluid passes along positive charges has puzzled scientists for...
Dec 5, 20163 min read
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