It’s widely known that people can become infected with the novel coronavirus by coming into contact with an object that has the virus on it or inhaling droplets emitted by sneezes or coughs. But some ...

A barely visible, electric field-controlled droplet moves on an appropriately prepared surface, harvesting viruses, bacteria and protein molecules deposited on it. This is how a novel method of ...

Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle. Measuring the volume, motion and contents ...

Good things come in microscopic packages, according to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s new DROPLETS project. Good things come in microscopic packages, according to the ...

WASHINGTON, October 27, 2020 -- Aerosol microdroplets, the tiny particles that linger in the air longest after we talk, cough, or sneeze, do not appear to be extremely efficient at spreading the virus ...

Mechanisms of prebiotic compartmentalization are central to providing insights into how protocellular systems emerged on the early Earth. Protocell models are based predominantly on the membrane ...