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Fabricating Inexpensive, High-Temp SQUIDs for Future Electronic Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 22, 2015 – High-transition-temperature superconductivity within copper-oxide materials was discovered in 1986, and quickly set into motion an intense research effort by scientists and […]

The Physics of Swimming Fish

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2015 — Fish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind as they wriggle their way […]

Diamonds are for Temperature

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2015 – Researchers have developed tiny, diamond-based probes that optically transmit detailed temperature information and can operate in conditions ranging from 150 – […]

Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2015 – Near the end of the movie Apollo 13, which depicts the harrowing journey of the three astronauts aboard the aborted 1970 […]

Futuristic Components on Silicon Chips, Fabricated Successfully

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2015 — A team of IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland with support from colleagues in Yorktown Heights, New York has developed a relatively […]

Improving Energy Storage with a Cue from Nature

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 9, 2015 – Materials melt faster when the lines of heat spread through the cold material like the branches of a tree — and […]

How Atmospheric Rivers Form

WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2015 – If you want to assign blame on an overcast day, then cast your eyes on the tropics. Water vapor originating from […]

Measuring the Mass of Molecules on the Nano-Scale

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2015 — Working with a device that slightly resembles a microscopically tiny tuning fork, researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have […]

The Invisible Key to Methane Hydrates

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2015 — Like the carbon dioxide in a fizzing glass of soda, most bubbles of gas in a liquid don’t last long. But […]