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ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ researchers use indents and boarders on plates to study how optical illusions help people choose smaller portions.

ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ researchers build optical illusions into plates to see how they can help us choose smaller portions and ultimately lose weight. 

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ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger examines new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Liquid Crystals Professor Robin Selinger helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

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Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Anne Hélène Gélébart shows the walking device. This small device is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. (Photo credit: Bart van Overbeeke)

Professor Robin Selinger of ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡â€™s Liquid Crystal Institute® helps develop new material that propels itself forward under the influence of light.

Ideastream talks with ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress and infant mortality.

Ideastream® talks with ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Psychology Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress in black women and ways to reduce the stress before it affects pregnancy.

ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ professor Hanbin Mao (middle) co-authored a paper with graduate students Sagun Jonchhe (left) and Prakash Shrestha (right) on the genetic factors influencing the formation of cancer cells.

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017. These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it. An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.