Riding a Wave of Sound
One way to get drugs through the blood-brain barrier: smuggle them across using sound waves. The blood-brain barrier, a name…
Category: Recent Work
Scientist vote to fix the world’s weight-loss problem
November is election time, and not only for voters in the United States. On November 16, hundreds of scientists will…
Unraveling the Mathematics of Smell
The human nose finds it simple to distinguish the aroma of fresh coffee from the stink of rotten eggs, but…
How three coastal communities are dealing with rising seas
Around the world, rising seas pose a major threat to coastal communities. Flooding will likely become worse, damaging buildings where…
Prizes, Thievery and Higher-Dimensional Doughnuts
And how mathematical collaborations yield breakthroughs. The biggest math heist in years happened the morning of Aug. 1 in a…
Lung Cancer Biology Differs by Race, Study Shows
Research findings could help improve personalized treatments for lung cancer patients. ALL CANCEROUS TUMORS contain cells that divide rapidly. There are…
Quantum computing gets its “Hello World” moment.
Tech experts have long championed quantum computers as the next generation of machine, promising to solve big problems in lightning-fast…
Smoots and garns
How much beauty does it take to launch a ship? Howmuch does a male physicist’s beard grow in a second?And…
Top Tips fom Tree Tops
The tallest known tree in the world is in Redwood National Park, a few hundred kilometres north of San Francisco, just…
The Swimmer
On a clear, sunny Tuesday afternoon, last August, Andreas Fath climbed out of a river in Paducah, Ky. A small…