15-06-13 Computers and water typically don't mix, but in Manu Prakash's lab, the two are one and the same. Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, and his students have built a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physic...

13-07-19 Evaporation is so common that everybody thinks it's a well understood phenomenon. Appearances can be, however, deceptive（迷惑的） . Recently, a new, earlier not predicted mechanism of evaporation was discovered. Experiments and simulations performe...

09-12-18 A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale纳米级 devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes. Chemists at the University of Illinois at C...