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Synchronized Swimming: How Startled Fish Shoals Effectively Evade Danger

Washington, D.C., November 29, 2016 — As panic spreads, an entire shoal (collective) of fish responds to an incoming threat in a matter of seconds, seemingly as […]

Understanding the Way Liquid Spreads Through Paper

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 – Molecules move randomly, colliding with each other in continual motion. You can even smell this process at times; it’s how perfume […]

Creating New Physical Properties in Materials

WASHINGTON D.C., November 29, 2016 – A collaborative effort between research groups at the Technical University of Freiberg and the University of Siegen in Germany demonstrates that […]

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 […]

Microbubbles Make Big Impact

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2016 — The quest to develop a wireless micro-robot for biomedical applications requires a small-scale “motor” that can be wirelessly powered through biological […]

Shaking Things Up with More Control

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2016 — This month, Samsung recalled 2.8 million top-loading washing machines due to excessive vibrations that could cause the top to break off […]

From Champagne Bubbles, Dance Parties and Disease to New Nanomaterials

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2016 — Whether it is clouds or champagne bubbles forming, or the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease or Type 2 diabetes, a common […]

How synchrony and asynchrony co-exist

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 15, 2016 — Order and disorder might seem dichotomous conditions of a functioning system, yet both states can, in fact, exist simultaneously and durably […]

Using Pectin to Advance Neuron-Like Electronic Systems

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 11, 2016 — Most of us know pectin as a key ingredient for making delicious jellies and jams, not as a component for a […]