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What have scientists started using to improve pharmaceuticals?

What have scientists started using to improve pharmaceuticals?

Answer: levitation

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. While the connection between levitation and drug development may not be immediately apparent, a special relationship emerges at the molecular level.

Read more at the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory

Photo by Dan Harris / courtesy Argonne National Laboratory