Tag Archives: engineering

Lasers, Electric Fields and Microfluidics Shrink Separating Vortexes Down to Size

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

Whenever scientists want to separate specific particles from the liquid in which they’re found, it usually involves a fairly large centrifuge. In the laboratory, for example, spinning machines cause heavier particles to collect at the bottom of a test tube … Continue reading →

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Boiling No Longer Bursts Your Bubbles

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

I don’t profess to be a culinary genius by any means, but I do my fair share of cooking and the results are usually pretty damned tasty. My mother and Alton Brown have taught me well. And for all of … Continue reading →

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Engineers Take the Fight Against Breast Cancer to the Next Dimension

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

Screening for medical conditions is a tricky and often times misleading operation. For example, researchers recently retracted the recommendation that doctors regularly test men for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) scan. The reasoning was that numerous studies led … Continue reading →

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Unbreakable Cell Phones, Tablets and Other Gadgets

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

It’s happened to all of us. We’ve all dropped a cell phone or sat on an iPod only to hear a small crunch and suddenly become the proud new owners of a really cool looking paper weight. And when you … Continue reading →

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Friday Fast Four (June 24)

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

New Class of Colloids One of the main drivers in new technology is material science. People out there have a ton of great ideas, but are unable to realize them because the combination of properties in a single material don’t … Continue reading →

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