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A Close-up View of Materials as they Stretch or Compress

WASHINGTON D.C. Sept. 8, 2015 — Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This […]

Device May Detect Urinary Tract Infections Faster

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2015 – Urinary tract infections can quickly move from being a merely miserable experience to a life-threatening condition. Untreated cases may trigger sepsis, […]

Droplets Levitate on a Cushion of Blue Light

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2015 – Researchers in France have discovered a new way to levitate liquid droplets, which surprisingly also creates a mini light show, with […]

New Benchmarks for Molecular Spectroscopy

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have recently used a technique called zero-kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain a list in […]

New Device Converts DC Electric Field to Terahertz Radiation

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Terahertz radiation, the no-man's land of the electromagnetic spectrum, has long stymied researchers. Optical technologies can finagle light in the shorter-wavelength […]

VIDEO: A Droplet’s Pancake Bounce

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Studies of the impact a droplet makes on solid surfaces hark back more than a century. And until now, it was […]

Lobster-Eye Imager Detects Soft X-ray Emissions

WASHINGTON D.C. July 28, 2015 — Solar winds are known for powering dangerous space weather events near Earth, which, in turn, endangers space assets. So a large […]

A New Litmus Test for Chaos?

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2015 — Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? This intriguing question — the title […]

Origins of Life: New Model May Explain Emergence of Self-Replication on Early Earth

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2015 — When life on Earth began nearly 4 billion years ago, long before humans, dinosaurs or even the earliest single-celled forms of […]