Enlarge / Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), and Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), would need 100 times more oxygen than usual at smaller scales. (credit: Marvel Studios) The ability to rapidly shrink down to bug size (and beyond) gives Ant-Man and the Wasp tremendous advantages. But it also comes with some […]
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Bay Area: Join us 9/20 to discuss how microfluidics will change science
Enlarge / Aaron Streets is a bioengineer who works on technology that does for fluids what microchips have done for computation. (credit: Aaron Streets) Microfluidics is a cutting-edge area of science that non-scientists rarely hear about. By taking advantage of the physical properties of fluids at extremely small scales, biochemical analysis can be performed at […]