Tiny Cubes May Hold Huge Potential
David H. Gracias fabricates metal microcontainers that one day could deliver drug therapies or relay health information from inside the…
Lab Notes
Getting the Pollutant Priorities Straight
In their hunt for emerging contaminants in the water supply, A. Lynn Roberts and Edward J. Bouwer probe beyond the…
What Are the Chances…
…that a new composite building material will crumble? For Lori Graham-Brady, the answer involves building ways to define and test…
Better Way to Biopsy
Gabor Fichtinger’s robot-assisted device offers a less-invasive way to detect and treat prostate disease. Using a simple robotic arm tipped…
The Sensing Robot
As he programs silicone microcircuits to mimic sensory systems, Ralph Etienne-Cummings keeps his eye on the lamprey eel and the…
Tiny Gateways with Enormous Potential
The molecular switches being created in Marc Ostermeier’s lab could one day target chemotherapy or sound a warning about anthrax….
Golden Opportunities
In layers one atom thin, Jonah Erlebacher creates far more surface for catalysis, even for inert metals. Jonah Erlebacher is…
Freeware Predicts Structural Stability
Benjamin W. Schafer admits that some fellow researchers around the world consider him “a little odd.” Flying in the face…
Raising the Bar on Bulk Metallic Glass
Todd C. Hufnagel remembers the day he first heard of metallic glass. As an undergraduate at Michigan Technological University in…