{"id":633650,"date":"2019-10-09T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=633650"},"modified":"2019-10-09T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:00:07","slug":"folding-a-drop-of-water-solves-a-longstanding-challenge-in-portable-diagnostic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=633650","title":{"rendered":"Folding a drop of water solves a longstanding challenge in portable diagnostic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever stopped to watch rain falling on a windowpane, you&#8217;ve seen what happens when two drops of water touch and merge into one. The physics at work in this phenomenon could provide unlock a solution for the development of miniaturized personal biological analysis devices. An international team of scientists from IBM Research-Zurich and the Microfluidics for Oncology Laboratory at Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al have reported this discovery in Nature.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-10-longstanding-portable-diagnostic-devices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Folding a drop of water solves a longstanding challenge in portable diagnostic devices<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever stopped to watch rain falling on a windowpane, you&#8217;ve seen what happens when two drops of water touch and merge into one. The physics at work in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}