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Understanding Mercury’s Magnetic Tail

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 – Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging […]

Performing Under Pressure: Modeling Oxidation in High-Stress Materials

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 — Each year, the effects of corroding materials sap more than $1 trillion from the global economy. As certain alloys are exposed […]

Course Set to Overcome ‘Mismatch’ Between Lab-Designed Nanomaterials and Nature’s Complexity

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2018 — Cells and the machinery they encase are soft matter — shape-shifting multicomponent systems with an overwhelming richness of forms. But, these […]

Diamond-Based Circuits Can Take the Heat for Advanced Applications

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2018 — When power generators like windmills and solar panels transfer electricity to homes, businesses and the power grid, they lose almost 10 […]

Ionizing Radiation Found to Soften Tumor Cell Microenvironment

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2018 — Nearly half of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy to curb the growth of malignant cells. But little is known about […]

A New Metasurface Model Shows Potential to Control Acoustic Wave Reflection

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2018 — An international team of researchers showed how a nonlinear elastic metasurface could convert a wave’s fundamental frequency to its second harmonic. […]

A Paperlike LCD — Thin, Flexible, Tough and Cheap

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 28, 2018 — Optoelectronic engineers in China and Hong Kong have manufactured a special type of liquid crystal display (LCD) that is paper-thin, flexible, […]

The Future of Photonics Using Quantum Dots

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2018 — Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crisscross the globe and package everything from financial data to cat videos into light. But […]

Exploring the Thermoelectric Properties of Tin Selenide Nanostructures

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2018 — Single crystal tin selenide (SnSe) is a semiconductor and an ideal thermoelectric material; it can directly convert waste heat to electrical […]