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Creating a (Synthetic) Song from a Zebra Finch’s Muscle

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2018 — Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues. While previous research reported […]

Researchers Develop a New Method to Detect Nucleation

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2018 — As a solution evaporates, the dissolved chemicals concentrate until they begin forming a crystal through a process called nucleation. Industries that […]

Blasting Tiny Craters into Glass, Creating a Material to Miniaturize Telecommunications Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2018 — Modern communication systems often employ optical fibers to carry signals across or between devices. The integrated optics in these devices combine […]

New Computer Model Predicts How Fracturing Metallic Glass Releases Energy at the Atomic Level

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2018 — Metallic glasses — alloys lacking the crystalline structure normally found in metals — are an exciting research target for tantalizing applications, […]

Solutions to Water Challenges Reside at the Interface

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — In response to rising water scarcity, leading Argonne National Laboratory researcher Seth Darling describes the most advanced research innovations that could […]

High Vinculin Levels Help Keep Aging Fruit Fly Hearts Young

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — Our cells tend to lose their shape as we grow older, contributing to many of the effects we experience as aging. […]

New Cost-Effective Instrument Measures Molecular Dynamics on a Picosecond Timescale

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — Studying the photochemistry, or chemical results of light, has shown that ultraviolet radiation can set off harmful chemical reactions in the […]

Exploding Waves from Colliding Dissipative Pulses

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — The interaction of traveling waves in dissipative systems, physical systems driven by energy dissipation, can yield unexpected and sometimes chaotic results. […]

Newly Discovered Properties of Ferroelectric Crystal Shed Light on Emerging Branch of Materials

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10, 2018 — In ferroelectric materials the crystal structure distorts, giving rise to a spontaneously formed polarization and electric field. Because of this unique […]