Various technologies, networks and institutions benefit from or require accurate time keeping to synchronize their activities. Current ways of synchronizing time have some drawbacks that a new proposed method seeks… Read More »A new method to synchronize devices on Earth makes use of cosmic rays
Strange as it may sound, worms could someday play a key role in fighting cancer. How? Lung cancer cells seem to smell yummy to one species of little worm. Now,… Read More »Like bloodhounds, worms are sniffing out human cancers
Variable (adjective, noun, “VAIR-ee-uh-bull”) The word “variable” can be an adjective or a noun. As an adjective, it means able to vary, or change. As a noun, the word refers… Read More »Scientists Say: Variable
A colorful candy nonpareil coating gives pills a unique pattern that can be stored by the manufacturer in a database. Consumers could upload a smartphone photograph of a pill and… Read More »Candy-coated pills could prevent pharmaceutical fraud
Researchers have developed a single-material, single-stimuli microstructure that can outmaneuver even living cilia. These programmable, micron-scale structures could be used for a range of applications, including soft robotics, biocompatible medical… Read More »Self-propelled, endlessly programmable artificial cilia