Flexible Metamaterial Absorbers
WASHINGTON D.C., July 29, 2014 – Electromagnetic metamaterials boast special properties not found in nature and are rapidly emerging as a hot research topic for reasons extending […]
The Evolution of Airplanes
WASHINGTON D.C. July 22, 2014 — One of the traditional arguments against Darwinian evolution has been that no one can confirm the process exists because it occurs […]
Fly-Inspired Sound Detector
WASHINGTON D.C., July 22, 2014 – Even within a phylum so full of mean little creatures, the yellow-colored Ormia ochracea fly is distinguished among other arthropods for […]
A New Multi-Bit ‘Spin’ for MRAM Storage
WASHINGTON D.C., July 22, 2014 — Interest in magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is escalating, thanks to demand for fast, low-cost, nonvolatile, low-consumption, secure memory devices. MRAM, […]
New Materials for Future Green Tech Devices
WASHINGTON D.C., July 15, 2014 — From your hot car to your warm laptop, every machine and device in your life wastes a lot of energy through […]
Directly Visualizing Hydrogen Bonds
WASHINGTON D.C., July 15, 2014 – Using a newly developed, ultrafast femtosecond infrared light source, chemists at the University of Chicago have been able to directly visualize […]
Bringing the Bling to Antibacterials
WASHINGTON D.C., July 1, 2014 – Bacteria love to colonize surfaces inside your body, but they have a hard time getting past your rugged, salty skin. Surgeries to implant […]
Reigning in Chaos in Particle Colliders Yields Big Results
WASHINGTON D.C., June 30, 2014 – When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed, there’s bound to be some chaos. Limiting that […]
New Technology: The Goose Bump Sensor
WASHINGTON D.C., June 24, 2014 – Can emotional states be measured quantitatively, and if so what would advertising, manufacturing and social media companies do with that data? […]