SMART, SELF-POWERED KNEE IMPLANTS COULD REDUCE NUMBER OF KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERIES Smart knee implants may soon be a reality thanks to research done by Binghamton University, Stony Brook Un... Read more
Graphene, the two-dimensional powerhouse, packs extreme durability, electrical conductivity, and transparency into a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. Despite being heralded as a breakthrough... Read more
Team from Oxford and Stony Brook first to use optogenetics to control excitation waves in heart cells We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signal... Read more
Serious fungal infections cause 1.3 million deaths annually worldwide. Researchers have identified a new class of antifungals to treat the more than 300 million people worldwide who develop... Read more
Supported by a NSF and DOE grant, a trial of the unit holds promise of big advance for those who rely on life-saving equipment Brooke Ellison draws her own power from will, but the ventilato... Read more
Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states. In the movie “Terminator 2,” the shape-shifting T-1000 robot morphs into a liquid state to sq... Read more
Wounds may heal more quickly if exposed to low-intensity vibration, report researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The finding, in mice, may hold promise for the 18 million Ame... Read more
All good research breaks new ground, but rarely does the research unearth truths that challenge the foundation of a science. That’s what Artem R. Oganov has done, and the professor of theore... Read more
Banerjee and his research team recently pioneered an innovative window coating that blocks heat when hot and allows it to enter when cold. Sarbajit Banerjee has done India proud. An associat... Read more
When a beating heart slips into an irregular, life-threatening rhythm, the treatment is well known: deliver a burst of electric current from a pacemaker or defibrillator. But because the ele... Read more
Locally, changes in coastal ocean temperatures may be much more extreme than global averages imply. New research published in the June 18 edition of Public Library of Science (PLoS ONE) enti... Read more
