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: Physics
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…
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…
What’s the best way to build a molecular machine?
Some of the smallest, most useful machines known to science are the biological molecules that keep living things living. The…
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…
Quantum games aim to demystify heady science
The antagonists in video games tend to be monsters or zombies, but Quantum Moves pits players against the fundamental laws…
The long road to Mars
Something about going to Mars has captivated the space-curious for generations; from scientists who want to build the spaceships and…
Fighting Fire with Fire
Robert Kremens fights fire with fire. No, really – that’s his job. Kremens sets fires in a host of locations…
The quantum world is mind-bogglingly weird
If you’re interested in the smallest things known to scientists, there’s something you should know. They are extraordinarily ill-behaved. But…
How Bose–Einstein condensates keep revealing weird physics
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), the first of which was shown experimentally 22 years ago, isn’t your garden variety state of…