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Synchronizing Optical Clocks to One Quadrillionth of a Second

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 — An international team of researchers, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has advanced […]

Mapping Free-Fall Styles of Solid Objects Within Fluids

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 — By carefully observing scenes as simple as leaves falling from trees or dandelion seeds blowing in the wind, we can see […]

Cicada Wings Inspire Antireflective Surfaces

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 — A team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers has used the shape of cicada wings as a template to create antireflective […]

Measuring the Flowing Forces and Bending on Aquatic Plants

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2016 — Beneath the surface of rivers and streams, aquatic plants sway with the current, playing an unseen but vital role in the […]

Japanese Researchers Find New Classes of Electron Orbits

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2016 — Phenomena like solar flares and auroras are consequences of magnetic reconnection in the near-Earth space. These “magnetic reconnection” events are akin to […]

Pyroelectric Peptide Microtubes Turn Heat to Electric Currents

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2016 — Many peptides and proteins have an innate ability to assemble into long, slender fibers called fibrils and other shapes. Now, researchers […]

High-Tech Future Early Warning System for Hurricanes, Tornados and Volcanic Eruptions

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2016 — Earlier this year, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was able to detect a gravity wave wafting through space from two […]

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 […]

Quantum Computing Advances with University of Tokyo Researchers’ Control of Entanglement

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2016 — When the quantum computer was imagined 30 years ago, it was revered for its potential to quickly and accurately complete practical […]