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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 […]

Lobster-Eye Imager Detects Soft X-ray Emissions

WASHINGTON D.C. July 28, 2015 — Solar winds are known for powering dangerous space weather events near Earth, which, in turn, endangers space assets. So a large […]

A New Litmus Test for Chaos?

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2015 — Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? This intriguing question — the title […]

Origins of Life: New Model May Explain Emergence of Self-Replication on Early Earth

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2015 — When life on Earth began nearly 4 billion years ago, long before humans, dinosaurs or even the earliest single-celled forms of […]

An Easy, Scalable and Direct Method for Synthesizing Graphene in Silicon Microelectronics

Washington, D.C., July 21, 2015 – In the last decade, graphene has been intensively studied for its unique optical, mechanical, electrical and structural properties. The one-atom-thick carbon […]

Chaos is an Inherent Part of City Traffic

WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2015 – It’s not unusual for two drivers to depart from the same location, head out to the same destination, drive more or […]

Degrading BPA with Visible Light and a New Hybrid Photocatalyst

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 21, 2015 — Over the course of the last half century, BPA has gone from miracle to menace. Its popularity soared after the 1950s, […]

Constant Change

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2015 — The fundamental constants that govern the laws of nature are being determined with increasing accuracy, according to a review paper published […]