UMass Medical School scientists are the first to show that it’s possible to reverse the behavior of an animal by flipping a switch in neuronal communication. The research, published in PLOS... Read more
UMass Amherst team uses curved creases to quickly transform thin shells Inspired by natural “snapping” systems like Venus flytrap leaves and hummingbird beaks, a team led by physicist Christ... Read more
New algorithms designed by Berkeley and UMass researchers allow autonomous systems to deal with uncertainty People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is f... Read more
Rice University lab test material for suitability in body armor, spacecraft protection Graphene’s great strength appears to be determined by how well it stretches before it breaks, according... Read more
UMass Amherst scientists use graphene in new energy conversion architecture Using a bio-mimicking analog of one of nature’s most efficient light-harvesting structures, blades of grass, an in... Read more
“I think it’s going to be very important to a lot of different scientific communities.” In Science, UMass Amherst researchers tell how they broke the ‘electrode barrier’ For decades, p... Read more
MIT chemists design nanoparticles that can deliver three cancer drugs at a time. Delivering chemotherapy drugs in nanoparticle form could help reduce side effects by targeting the drugs dire... Read more
In one of the earliest experiments using a humanoid robot to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst saw notable speec... Read more
An international team of experts reported today that evidence linking hormone-mimicking chemicals to human health problems has grown stronger over the past decade An international team of ex... Read more
An international team has found that a troubling net loss in diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is accompanying deforestation in the Amazon rainf... Read more
Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effective than the... Read more
A near-future wireless implant ecosystem might become a target for scripts In what amounts to a fairly shocking reminder of how quickly our technologies are advancing and how deeply our live... Read more
The Super Turing model yields an exponentially greater repertoire of behaviors than the classical computer As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of th... Read more
Repairing a damaged surface with this method would require significantly smaller amounts of material In the super-small world of nanostructures, a team of polymer scientists and engin... Read more