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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 […]

Will Raindrops Stick to a Spider Web’s Threads?

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2016 – If you go out after a rain, you may notice spider webs glistening with water droplets. The soggy webs resemble human-made […]

Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 8, 2016 — University of Houston physicists report finding major theoretical flaws in the generally accepted understanding of how a superconductor traps and holds […]

Cooling Chips with the Flip of a Switch

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5, 2016 – Turn on an electric field, and a standard electrocaloric material will eject heat to its surroundings as its internal dipoles reorder […]

Separating charge and discharge in measuring next-generation car batteries

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 29, 2016 — Lithium ion phosphate batteries are widely used to power the batteries in electric cars, but, unlike the amount of gas in […]

Breaking metamaterial symmetry with reflected light

Washington, D.C., April 5, 2016 — Optical activity—rotation of the polarization of light—is well known to occur within materials that differ from their mirror image. But what happens […]

Improving Benchtop Particle Accelerators

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2016 – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which helped scientists discover the Higgs boson, is a huge instrument buried under the Swiss-French border. […]

Printing Nanomaterials with Plasma

Washington, D.C., March 22, 2016 — Printing has come a long way since the days of Johannes Gutenberg. Now, researchers have developed a new method that uses […]

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 […]