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Acoustic Metamaterial Panel Absorbs Low-Frequency Sound

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2016 — When it comes to low-frequency sound waves, traditional sound-absorbing materials tend to be undesirably bulky, heavy or thick. This challenge inspired […]

Tuning Materials and Devices to Adapt to Their Environment

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 13, 2016 — Materials with large dielectric constants — aka “high-K materials” — have recently garnered attention for their potential use within future generations […]

Foam Stops Sloshing Liquid

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 13, 2016 — Clinking your glass of beer often leaves its contents sloshing back and forth. Soon, though, the motion stops, your drink settles […]

Fish ‘Biowaste’ Converted to Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 6, 2016 — Large quantities of fish are consumed in India on a daily basis, which generates a huge amount of fish “biowaste” materials. […]

Water and Light ‘Flow’ Inspire Ultrasensitive Optical Microfiber Coupler Sensor

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 6, 2016 — When a river narrows or two rivers run into each other and merge, the water flow’s speed increases and it becomes […]

Location Matters in the Self-Assembly of Nanoclusters

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 6, 2016 — Scientists at Iowa State University have developed a new formulation that helps to explain the self-assembly of atoms into nanoclusters and […]

Shrinking the Inside of an Explosion

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 30, 2016 — Testing explosions is epic science. The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been conducted at national laboratories using a gun […]

Quest to Find the ‘Missing Physics’ at Play in Landslides

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 30, 2016 — During the 1990s, Charles S. Campbell, now a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of […]

The Science of Diffusion and the Spread of Public Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 22, 2016 — Most of us think of diffusion in the context of its scientific definition as the process whereby particles of liquids, gases […]