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Origami lattice paves the way for new noise-dampening barriers on the road

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Managing traffic noise pollution has vexed researchers in large part because of the broad range of frequencies we encounter on the […]

Active Sieving Could Improve Dialysis and Water Purification Filters

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Physicists from École Normale Supérieure and Paris Science and Letters University in France have proven theoretically that active sieving, as opposed […]

The Drop That’s Good to the Very End

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Even in ancient Greece, philosopher Aristotle tried to sum up all the ways that water can behave. Now, about 2,400 years […]

Force Field Analysis Provides Clues to Protein-Ion Interaction

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Muscle twitching, lactose digestion, blood movement — what could possibly connect these body functions? You may be surprised to learn that […]

Spin-Current Generation Gets Mid-IR Boost with Plasmonic Metamaterial

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 10, 2017 — Over the last few years, researchers have demonstrated that light can serve as a spin-current generator, creating currents of angular momentum, […]

Probing Exotic Ices

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 10, 2017 — Water is everywhere. But it’s not the same everywhere. When frozen under extreme pressures and temperatures, ice takes on a range […]

Asymmetric Sound Absorption Lets in the Light

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 6, 2017 — If you’ve ever lived in an apartment building or stayed in a hotel room, you are probably familiar with the inconvenience […]

Researchers Get Straight to the Heart of Piezoelectric Tissues

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 5, 2017 — For years, scientists have wondered whether the heart and adjacent vessels might have evolved to be piezoelectric, meaning that the tissue […]

Tungsten Offers Nano-Interconnects a Path of Least Resistance

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2017 — As microchips become ever smaller and therefore faster, the shrinking size of their copper interconnects leads to increased electrical resistivity at […]