Designing a pop-up future: Simple origami fold may hold the key to designing pop-up furniture, medical devices and scientific tools
This image shows various shapes made from Miura-ori pattern.
Theorists Propose a New Method to Probe the Beginning of the Universe
Microscopic drug 'depots' boost efficacy against tumors in animal model
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed a technique for creating microscopic "depots" for trapping drugs inside cancer tumors. In...
Highly efficient heavy metal ions filter
In November 2015, Brazil experienced an unparalleled environmental disaster. When two dams broke at an iron ore mine, a poisonous...
Flexible and transparent pressure sensor
The pressure sensors wrap around and conform to the shape of the fingers while still accurately measuring pressure distribution.
Weaving a New Story for COFS and MOFs
There are many different ways to make nanomaterials but weaving, the oldest and most enduring method of making fabrics, has not been one of them – until now. An international collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s...
Seeing the big picture in photosynthetic light harvesting: Berkeley Lab researchers create first multiple antennae model of photosystem II
The new model simulates light-harvesting across several hundred nanometers of a thylakoid membrane, which is the membrane within a chloroplast that harbors photosystem II (PSII), a complex of antennae made up of mostly of chlorophyll-containing...
Flying in the Dark? NAMRU-D’s Night Vision Simulation Lab to Benefit Aviators
We sometimes take our five senses for granted, especially our vision. As our most utilized sense, vision gives us accurate information about our environment, where we are within it, and how it changes as we move. Most don’t give this sense a second...
