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Streamlining the Measurement of Phonon Dispersion

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2017– As the interest in renewable energy and energy-efficient devices continues to grow, so has the scientific community’s interest in discovering and designing […]

New Tool Enables Viewing Spectrum from Specific Structures Within Samples

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 — Fluorescence is an incredibly useful tool for experimental biology and it just got easier to tap into, thanks to the work […]

Bio-Inspired Lower-Limb ‘Wearing Robotic Exoskeleton’ for Human Gait Rehab

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25, 2016 — Stroke and spinal cord injury patients often require gait rehabilitation to regain the ability to walk or to help strengthen their […]

Cosmic Dust Demystified

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2016 — The solar system is a dusty environment, with trillions of cosmic dust particles left behind by comets and asteroids that orbit […]

Important Milestone Reached on Road to a Redefined Kilogram

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 21, 2016 — In a secure vault in the suburbs of Paris, an egg-sized cylinder of metal sits in a climate-controlled room under three […]

U.S. Army Camera Captures Explosives in Fine Detail

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2016 — When the script of Lawrence of Arabia called for wrecking a train, director David Lean found it easiest to go ahead […]

Studying Life on the Rocks

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2016 — Much of modern life is deeply impacted by the behavior of ice. Now, new work from a team at Lamont-Doherty Earth […]

Bringing the Landslide Laboratory to Remote Regions

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2016 – It’d be hard to overstate how landslide-prone China’s Loess Plateau is; thanks to millions of years’ accumulation of the wind-deposited, highly-porous […]

Outsourcing crystal growth…to space

Washington, D.C., March 15, 2016 – Sometimes, distance can lend a new perspective to a problem. For Japanese researchers studying protein crystal growth, that distance was 250 […]