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Exploring Superconducting Properties of 3-D Printed Parts

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 18, 2016 — 3-D printing is revolutionizing many areas of manufacturing and science. In particular, 3-D printing of metals has found novel applications in fields as […]

Extending Terahertz Technology to Obtain Highly Accurate Thickness of Automotive Paint

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2016 — Now automotive body paint jobs get a major boost from the rapidly emerging field of terahertz (THz) technology used to improve […]

Bouncing droplets remove contaminants like pogo jumpers

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 5, 2016 – Scalpels that never need washing. Airplane wings that de-ice themselves. Windshields that readily repel raindrops. While the appeal of a self-cleaning, […]

Ultra-thin Solar Cells Can Easily Bend Around a Pencil

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2016 — Scientists in South Korea have made ultra-thin photovoltaics flexible enough to wrap around the average pencil. The bendy solar cells could […]

Real Rocket Science: How Do Hydrogen Droplets Behave When Hydrogen-oxygen Aerosol Mixtures Burn?

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2016 — Modern rockets and their launch vehicles commonly rely on hydrogen-oxygen mixtures as propellant, but this combination is highly explosive. The Challenger […]

Seeing Atoms

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — Life in the nano lane is fast and just got faster in terms of knowledge of fundamental mechanisms working at the […]

Laboratory Breakthrough may Lead to improved X-ray Interferometers

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute’s Swiss Light Source in Villigen, Switzerland, have developed an X-ray grating interferometry setup which does […]

Silicon Sees the Light: Tiny Lasers Enable Next-Gen Microprocessors to Run Faster, Less Power-Hungry

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2016 — A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Sandia National Laboratories […]

Calculating the Mechanics of a Rough Sphere

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2016 — The scientific community uses spheres for all sorts of things — artificial limbs, cars, molecular chemistry — but there’s always a little […]