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Diaper Material Brings Nanoscale Resolution to Ordinary Microscopes
Absorbent makes brain tissue bigger, enabling optical microscopes to resolve features down to 60 nanometers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Self-Propelled Micromotors Take Their First Swim in the Body
Microsized tubes can now zip around in a mouse’s stomach and deliver cargo, suggesting the potential for improved functions of nanoparticle drug carriers and imaging agents -- Read more on...
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Sensors Cleaned by Light Could Drop Costs of Detecting Pollution or Disease
Electrodes with new coating shrug off contaminants when stimulated by UV light -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Paper Test Quickly Detects Ebola, Dengue and Yellow Fever
Silver nanoparticles on paper reveal three diseases with the speed and simplicity of a home pregnancy test -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Future of Medicine 2015
7 stories on ways that nanomedicine is revolutionizing healthcare -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Hangout with Kit Parker: Engineering the Body
When I told Kit Parker of Harvard University to think about explaining what he does to teenagers who would be watching our Google Science Fair Hangout On Air earlier today, he had a great answer for......
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Nanotech Bandages Detect Health Trouble and Deliver Medicine
New materials will not simply cover wounds—they will be able to alert doctors to problems and deliver fine-tuned drugs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Nanomedicine Aims New Treatments at Cancer and Dangerous Wounds
Working on a very small scale lets scientists give drugs abilities denied to larger molecules -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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DNA Spheres Light Up to Detect Cancer
Ball-shaped molecules release flares when they encounter malignancy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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“Optocapacitance” Shines New Light on the Brain
A novel twist on the young field of optogenetics may provide a new way to study living human brains as well as offering innovative therapeutic uses. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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ScienceDebate Revs Up for 2016 Presidential Election
This year, I've been very fortunate to be a part of the inaugural class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars (PLS) program, which brings together 60 leaders from around the country to work on... --...
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Anticancer Drugs, Hidden in Nanoshells, Target Tumors Better Than Standard...
Tiny vehicles for chemotherapy boost tumor-busting skills and reduce side effects -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Soft Electronics Monitor Heart Health
Flexible circuits can be implanted without tearing vital organs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Nanobots Start to Move
The technical challenges may take 20 years or more to overcome, but the first steps toward remote-controlled medicine have already begun -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Queen of Carbon Becomes First Woman to Receive IEEE Medal of Honor
In June, Professor Mildred Dresselhaus will formally receive the 2015 IEEE Medal of Honor for her leadership and contributions across many fields of science and engineering. She... -- Read more on...
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Injectable Brain Implant Spies on Individual Neurons
Electronic mesh has potential to unravel workings of mammalian brain -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Disguised Nanoparticles Slip Past Body's Immune Defense
Drug-delivery systems coated in platelets repair damaged blood vessels -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Nanotech May Help Diagnose Deadly Infections in Minutes, Not Days
Tiny new probes can diagnose infections in 20 minutes, knocking days off the wait for results and saving lives -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Inside Story on Wearable Electronics
Researchers want to wire the human body with sensors that could harvest reams of data—and transform health care -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Lightest Gold Nugget Ever—20 Carats—Sits On A Feather
Made with nanoscale holes, the gold could be used as an electric switch -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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