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New Laser-patterning Technique Turns Metals into Supermaterials

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 20, 2015 –By zapping ordinary metals with femtosecond laser pulses researchers from the University of Rochester in New York have created extraordinary new surfaces […]

New Signal Amplification Process Set to Transform Communications, Imaging, Computing

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 20, 2015 – Signal amplification is ubiquitous to all electronic and optoelectronic systems for communications, imaging and computing – its characteristics directly impact device […]

Photonic Crystal Nanolaser Biosensor Simplifies DNA Detection

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 13, 2015 – A simple method to sense DNA, as well as potential biomarker proteins of cancer or other diseases such as Alzheimer’s, may […]

Zinc Oxide Materials Tapped for Tiny Energy Harvesting Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 13, 2015 – Today, we’re surrounded by a variety of electronic devices that are moving increasingly closer to us – we can attach and […]

Acoustic Levitation Made Simple

WASHINGTON D.C., January 5, 2015 — A team of researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil has developed a new levitation device that can hover […]

Gift-Wrapped Gas Molecules

WASHINGTON D.C., December 30, 2014 – A group of scientists led by researchers at the Université de Versailles’ Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to […]

A Qubit Candidate Shines Brighter

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 29, 2014 – In the race to design the world’s first universal quantum computer, a special kind of diamond defect called a nitrogen vacancy […]

How the Physics of Champagne and Soda Bubbles May Help Address the World’s Future Energy Needs

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 18, 2014 — Uncork a bottle of champagne, and as the pressure of the liquid is abruptly removed, bubbles immediately form and then rapidly […]

Future Batteries: Lithium-Sulfur with a Graphene Wrapper

WASHINGTON D.C., December 16, 2014 — What do you get when you wrap a thin sheet of the “wonder material” graphene around a novel multifunctional sulfur electrode […]