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Growth Under Pressure: New Metamaterial Designed with Counterintuitive Property

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2017 — In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to 3-D print virtually anything. Consider standard printers, which “synthesize” thousands of colors […]

Nature Plants a Seed of Engineering Inspiration

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2017 — Researchers in South Korea have quantitatively deconstructed what they describe as the “ingenious mobility strategies” of seeds that self-burrow rotationally into […]

New Method Can Model Chemistry in Extreme Magnetic Fields of White Dwarfs

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 18, 2017 — Most stars become white dwarfs when they reach the end of their stellar life cycle. Astrophysicists determine what elements are present […]

‘GAMERS’ Method Creates Unique 4-D Molecular Spectral Maps

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 18, 2017 — Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new method to extract the static and dynamic structure of complex chemical systems. In […]

Lasers Measure Jet Disintegration

WASHINGTON D.C., April 18, 2017 — There are many processes, such as propulsion, in which fluid in a supercritical state, where the temperature and pressure put a […]

What’s a Knot — and What’s Not — in Genomic Mapping

WASHINGTON D.C., April 11, 2017 — While DNA sequencing provides precise, nucleotide-by-nucleotide genomic information, genome mapping provides a bigger-picture perspective of sequenced DNA that can provide valuable […]

‘Indistinguishable photons’ key to advancing quantum technologies

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2017 — To really take off, advanced quantum information processing will require getting a better (experimental) grasp of an essential phenomenon called “indistinguishable […]

Bubble Group Dancing

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2017 — A group of researchers at Zhejiang University’s State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, in Hangzhou, China, recently discovered […]

Putting a Spin on Logic Gates

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2017 — Computer electronics are shrinking to small-enough sizes that the very electrical currents underlying their functions can no longer be used for […]