by Laura Kesner You could say that baking runs in my family: the inventor of angel food cake was a distant cousin, the big question at family gatherings when I was a kid was whether …
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Combining the Old With the New: using nanotechnology to enhance ancient medicines
by Larissa Davis You walk past a body products store on a weekend shopping trip and are immediately overtaken by fragrance, your nose saturated with floral, sugary and tropical scents. Intrigued by the promise of …
Quantum Dots and Lipid Rafts: Analytical Chemistry Solves a Nanoscale Mystery
by Arielle Mensch edited by Joe Buchman Remember all those great Black Friday deals on QLED televisions? You may not realize it, but they were all about nanotechnology! The Q in QLED stands for quantum …
How do scientists determine the texture of cells?
co-authored by Arielle Mensch & Yi Cui We recently received a very intriguing question from a 12-year old reader, Olivia, who asked, “How do scientists figure out the texture of cells?” This is a great …
2016: The Start of a New… Decade? Part 1
by Gene Chong edited by Ariane Vartanian The coming of spring, like New Years Day, leads many of us to ruminate over what we did and did not accomplish in the past year and to …
What’s in a scientific publication’s name? One research article title explained
I recently had an article published in the journal Environmental Science: Nano along with seven co-authors from the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. The title is “Formation of supported lipid bilayers containing phase-segregated domains and their …
How Can You Tell if Bacteria are Alive or Dead?
by Joe Buchman edited by Ian Gunsolus Think about the last time you cooked meat, wiped down a countertop with Lysol, or used hand sanitizer. You already know that these actions will help to kill …
A Science Journalist Ventures Into the Lab
Guest Post by Zachary Vasile It can be difficult to record exactly how a writer thinks. This is not to mystify the brain of a writer, but to say that we often reason in incredibly …
How Do Scientists Understand the Cell Membrane?
by Lisa Jacob edited by Arielle Mensch One of the primary goals of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology is to understand what happens when nanomaterials are exposed to biological systems like organisms or even cells. …
One of the Most Sensitive Balances on the Planet – Quartz Crystal Microbalance
by Arielle Mensch Take a look at your wrist. Have you ever wonder what makes your watch tick with such precision? What if I told you the same technology that causes your watch to work …