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Artificial blood vessels

WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2015 – By combining micro-imprinting and electro-spinning techniques, researchers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center have developed a vascular graft composed of […]

Ultra-Thin Wires for Quantum Computing

WASHINGTON D.C., June 17, 2014 – Take a fine strand of silica fiber, attach it at each end to a slow-turning motor, gently torture it over an […]

New View of Supernova Death Throes

WASHINGTON D.C., March 18, 2014 — A powerful, new three-dimensional model provides fresh insight into the turbulent death throes of supernovas, whose final explosions outshine entire galaxies […]

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 […]

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 […]

Promising New Alloy for Resistive Switching Memory

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 20, 2013 — Memory based on electrically-induced “resistive switching” effects have generated a great deal of interest among engineers searching for faster and smaller […]

Bright, Laser-Based Lighting Devices

WASHINGTON D.C. Sept. 27, 2013 — As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights — the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever […]

Quantum Conductors Benefit from Growth on Smooth Foundations

WASHINGTON D.C. Oct. 11, 2013 — Imagine if the “information superhighway” had HOV lanes so that data could be stored, processed and disseminated many times faster than […]