University at Buffalo physicists are using innovative tools to study the properties of a bizarre class of molecules that may play a role in disease: proteins that cluster together to form spherical droplets inside human cells. The scientists’ latest research sheds light on the conditions that drive such droplets to switch from a fluid, liquidy…

As the Sept. 15 launch date for NASA’s new ice-monitoring satellite approaches, University at Buffalo scientists are among many worldwide who are counting down the days. They’re excited, but nervous, too. That’s what happens when your future research is reliant on equipment that’s going to be hurled, atop a flaming rocket, into the harsh environs…

Helmets that do a better job of preventing concussions and other brain injuries. Earphones that protect people from damaging noises. Devices that convert “junk” energy from airport runway vibrations into usable power. New research on the events that occur when tiny specks of matter called nanoparticles smash into each other could one day inform the…