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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 […]

New Tool for Studying Magnetic, Self-Propelled Bacteria that Resemble Compass Needles

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2015 — In the Marvel Comics universe, Professor Xavier and the X-Men are only able to fend off their archrival Magneto, the magnetic […]

A Close-up View of Materials as they Stretch or Compress

WASHINGTON D.C. Sept. 8, 2015 — Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This […]

Lobster-Eye Imager Detects Soft X-ray Emissions

WASHINGTON D.C. July 28, 2015 — Solar winds are known for powering dangerous space weather events near Earth, which, in turn, endangers space assets. So a large […]

Potential New Breathalyzer for Lung Cancer Screening

WASHINGTON D.C., Feb.17, 2015 — Researchers from Chongqing University in China have developed a high sensitive fluorescence-based sensor device that can rapidly identify cancer related volatile organic […]

The Future of Holographic Video

WASHINGTON D.C., February 3, 2015 — Holographic video displays, featuring three-dimensional images, are about to “go large” and become a lot more affordable at the same time, […]

Microwave Imaging of the Breast

WASHINGTON D.C., December 16, 2014 — Although currently available diagnostic screening systems for breast cancer like X-ray computed tomography (CT) and mammography are effective at detecting early […]

Beyond LEDs: Brighter, New Energy-Saving Flat Panel Lights Based on Carbon Nanotubes

Washington D.C., October 14, 2014 — Even as the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has enshrined light emitting diodes (LEDs) as the single most significant and disruptive […]