Sharks have an innate ability to detect electric fields, useful for sensing the bioelectric activity of their prey. Researchers ...
... electric voltage can be used to propel DNA molecules through a channel a few nanometres deep, or to stop them in their tracks. In a strong electric field the molecules judder along the channel ...
... 's Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically charged tube that can be attached to the fuel line ... supply from the vehicle's battery, the device creates an electric field that thins fuel, or reduces its viscosity ...
... . In the case of protein deposition, the team found that by applying an electrical field between the nanofountain probe and substrate, they could control the transport of protein to the substrate. Without the use of electric fields, protein deposition was relatively slow and sporadic ...
New technique uses electric fields at ultracold temperatures to isolate individual conformational isomers from a complex molecule
... nematodes) along a narrow channel using a mild electric field. The discovery opens up significant possibilities ... and in reverse inside a microchannel, guided by the direction of the electric field (electrotaxis). "The electrotaxis of the worms has the potential ...
Learning how living cells can detect and respond to electric fields is the aim of a $570,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Min ...
... Academy of Science in Shanghai; have developed a process using an electric field that can significantly improve how hydrogen fuel ... ambient conditions," he said. The team found that an external electric field can be used to store hydrogen just as an internal ...
... can make their products more quickly and cheaply by using an inexpensive electric field – and make their product stronger as well ... it at the lowest temperature at the fastest rate possible. Using an electric field achieves all of these goals." The research is described ...
Researchers are developing a new method to sequence the human genome. The sequencer uses an electric field to drive a strand of DNA through a small hole, or "nanopore," in a membrane.
... PhysOrg.com) -- Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal ... in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that electrical fields can also influence the activity of brain cells ...
... , according to a new study. The finding indicates that the brain's electric fields are not just passive by-products of neural ... have been considered for decades, this is the first direct evidence that the electric fields generated by the cerebral cortex change ...
... other. In fact, the brain is enveloped in countless overlapping electric fields, generated by the neural circuits of scores ... during intense brain processing." Can external electric fields have similar effects on the brain? "This is an interesting ...
... in both nature and technical areas: by changing the electrical field, impulses of nerves are transmitted and modern ... measurement techniques. Researchers have succeeded in measuring electrical fields with the aid of one single defect center ...
Scientists recognize how important a role electrical fields play in nature and technical areas. By adjusting ... at the University of Stuttgart in Germany successfully measured electrical fields. Presented in the journal Nature Physics ...
