Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:January 31, 2012
Anyone who has flown on a commercial airline since 2001 is well aware of increasingly strict measures at airport security checkpoints. A study by Illinois researchers demonstrates that intensive screening of all passengers actually makes the system less secure by overtaxing security resources.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
January 31, 2012
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:January 17, 2012
With one simple experiment, University of Illinois chemists have debunked a widely held misconception about an often-prescribed drug.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
January 17, 2012
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:January 12, 2012
University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
January 12, 2012
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:December 22, 2011
Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers. The team developed a method to chemically etch patterned arrays in the semiconductor gallium arsenide, used in solar cells, lasers, light emitting diodes (LEDs), field effect transistors (FETs), capacitors and sensors.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
December 22, 2011
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:December 20, 2011
When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip -- or even the whole device -- is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem?
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
December 20, 2011
Author:
Dusty Rhodes, News Editor
Published Date:December 19, 2011
n his first book, University of Illinois professor Daniel Schneider tackles a topic not generally discussed at cocktail parties. Schneiders Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem was published last month by the MIT Press.
Author:
Dusty Rhodes, News Editor
Published Date:
December 19, 2011
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:December 15, 2011
Clinical gene therapy may be one step closer, thanks to a new twist on an old class of molecules.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
December 15, 2011
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:December 15, 2011
Researchers have developed a bandage that stimulates and directs blood vessel growth on the surface of a wound. The bandage, called a microvascular stamp, contains living cells that deliver growth factors to damaged tissues in a defined pattern. After a week, the pattern of the stamp is written in blood vessels, the researchers report.
Author:
Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor
Published Date:
December 15, 2011
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:December 6, 2011
Eight University of Illinois faculty members have been elected fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Rashid Bashir, Debasish Dutta, K. Jimmy Hsia, Keith W. Kelley, Wilfred van der Donk, M. Christina White and James Whitfield.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
December 6, 2011
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:November 30, 2011
An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star creation.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
November 30, 2011
