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Studying Kangaroo Cartilage Could Help Human Treatment

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 — If you have survived years of pushing, pulling, lifting, lowering and rotational forces assaulting your shoulders, thank your healthy articular cartilage. […]

Droplets Levitate on a Cushion of Blue Light

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2015 – Researchers in France have discovered a new way to levitate liquid droplets, which surprisingly also creates a mini light show, with […]

VIDEO: A Droplet’s Pancake Bounce

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Studies of the impact a droplet makes on solid surfaces hark back more than a century. And until now, it was […]

An Easy, Scalable and Direct Method for Synthesizing Graphene in Silicon Microelectronics

Washington, D.C., July 21, 2015 – In the last decade, graphene has been intensively studied for its unique optical, mechanical, electrical and structural properties. The one-atom-thick carbon […]

Physical Study May Give Boost to Hydrogen Cars

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2015 — The dream of a cleaner, greener transportation future burns brightly in the promise of hydrogen-fueled, internal combustion engine automobiles. Modern-day versions […]

Biodegradable, Flexible Silicon Transistors

Washington, D.C., June 30, 2015 — Portable electronics users tend to upgrade their devices frequently as new technologies offering more functionality and more convenience become available. […]

Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor May Take Smartphone Security to New Level

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2015 — Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iPhone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger’s surface, which can […]

Fabricating Inexpensive, High-Temp SQUIDs for Future Electronic Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 22, 2015 – High-transition-temperature superconductivity within copper-oxide materials was discovered in 1986, and quickly set into motion an intense research effort by scientists and […]

Diamonds are for Temperature

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2015 – Researchers have developed tiny, diamond-based probes that optically transmit detailed temperature information and can operate in conditions ranging from 150 – […]