In modern engineering, precision fluid control is vital across industries ranging from electronics manufacturing to medical device design. Peristaltic pumps, with their distinctive squeeze-and-release ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate. Encased in the skull, perched atop the spine, the brain has a ...

A new computational analysis supports the idea that photons (a.k.a. particles of light) colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of 'strongly interacting' particles. In a new paper, they show that ...