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Funky Ferroelectric Properties Probed with X-rays

WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features […]

Magnetic Cooling Enables Efficient, “Green” Refrigeration

WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Magnetic cooling is a promising new refrigeration technology boasting several advantages – ranging from lower energy consumption to eliminating the use […]

Just Add Water: 3-D silicon shapes fold themselves when wetted by microscopic droplets

WASHINGTON D.C. June 3, 2014 — Researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands have taken the precise art of origami down to the microscopic scale. […]

Vanishing da Vinci

WASHINGTON D.C. June 3, 2014 — One of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpieces, drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s and widely believed to be […]

Here Come the “Brobots”

WASHINGTON D.C. June 2, 2014 — A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots, which […]

Smaller Accelerators for Particle Physics?

WASHINGTON D.C., May 27, 2014 — It took every inch of the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile length to accelerate particles to energies high enough to discover the […]

New Lithium Battery Created in Japan

WASHINGTON D.C., May 20, 2014 — The long life of lithium ion batteries makes them the rechargeable of choice for everything from implantable medical devices to wearable […]

Water Caged in Buckyballs

WASHINGTON D.C. May 20, 2014 — In a new paper in The Journal of Chemical Physics, produced by AIP Publishing, a research team in the United Kingdom […]

MEMS Nanoinjector for Genetic Modification of Cells

WASHINGTON D.C. May 13, 2014 — The ability to transfer a gene or DNA sequence from one animal into the genome of another plays a critical role […]