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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 […]

Half Diamond, Half Cubic Boron, All Cutting Business

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 — Diamonds are forever, except when they oxidize while cutting through iron, cobalt, nickel, chromium, or vanadium at high temperatures. Conversely, cubic […]

Studying Kangaroo Cartilage Could Help Human Treatment

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 — If you have survived years of pushing, pulling, lifting, lowering and rotational forces assaulting your shoulders, thank your healthy articular cartilage. […]

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 […]

Device May Detect Urinary Tract Infections Faster

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2015 – Urinary tract infections can quickly move from being a merely miserable experience to a life-threatening condition. Untreated cases may trigger sepsis, […]

Droplets Levitate on a Cushion of Blue Light

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2015 – Researchers in France have discovered a new way to levitate liquid droplets, which surprisingly also creates a mini light show, with […]

New Benchmarks for Molecular Spectroscopy

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have recently used a technique called zero-kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain a list in […]

New Device Converts DC Electric Field to Terahertz Radiation

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Terahertz radiation, the no-man's land of the electromagnetic spectrum, has long stymied researchers. Optical technologies can finagle light in the shorter-wavelength […]

VIDEO: A Droplet’s Pancake Bounce

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Studies of the impact a droplet makes on solid surfaces hark back more than a century. And until now, it was […]