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Energy Storage in Miniaturized Capacitors May Boost Green Energy Technology

WASHINGTON D.C. Jan. 17, 2014 — The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries – storing electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices […]

Clot-Busters, Caught on Tape

WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 13, 2013 — Ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles have been showing promise in recent years as a non-invasive way to break up dangerous blood clots. But though […]

GRAPHENE: Growing Giants

WASHINGTON D.C. Dec. 6, 2013 — To technology insiders, graphene is a certified big deal. The one-atom thick carbon-based material elicits rhapsodic descriptions as the strongest, thinnest […]

New Thermoelectronic Generator

WASHINGTON D.C. Dec. 3, 2013 — Through a process known as thermionic conversion, heat energy — such as light from the sun or heat from burned fossil […]

Enhancing Battery Performance

WASHINGTON D.C. Nov. 19, 2013 — The ever-increasing market for portable electronic devices such as laptops, cell phones and MP3 players has resulted in an equally heavy […]

What Water Looks Like to DNA

WASHINGTON D.C. Nov. 19, 2013 — A team of biochemists and mathematicians have developed a sophisticated geometric model to predict how a biological molecule will interact with […]

Whither the Teakettle Whistle

WASHINGTON D.C. Nov. 15, 2013 — Despite decades of brewing tea in a whistling kettle, the source and mechanism of this siren sound of comfort has never […]

Altering surface textures in ‘counterintuitive manner’ may lead to cooling efficiency gains

WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 12, 2013 — Researchers across the globe are racing to find ways to improve the cooling of hot surfaces — for technologies ranging from […]

The Secrets of a Bug’s Flight

WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 12, 2013 — Researchers have identified some of the underlying physics that may explain how insects can so quickly recover from a stall in […]