Ghost Writing the Whip
WASHINGTON D.C., June 24, 2014 – “Ghost imaging” sounds like the spooky stuff of frivolous fiction, but it’s an established technique for reconstructing hi-res images of objects […]
Ultra-Thin Wires for Quantum Computing
WASHINGTON D.C., June 17, 2014 – Take a fine strand of silica fiber, attach it at each end to a slow-turning motor, gently torture it over an […]
Swell New Sensors
WASHINGTON D.C., June 17, 2014 – Using microscopic polymer light resonators that expand in the presence of specific gases, researchers at MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory have developed […]
Malaria: Blood Cells Behaving Badly
WASHINGTON D.C. June 10, 2014 — All the billions of flat, biconcave disks in our body known as red blood cells (or erythrocytes) make three basic, tumbling-treadmill-type […]
Funky Ferroelectric Properties Probed with X-rays
WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features […]
Magnetic Cooling Enables Efficient, “Green” Refrigeration
WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Magnetic cooling is a promising new refrigeration technology boasting several advantages – ranging from lower energy consumption to eliminating the use […]
Just Add Water: 3-D silicon shapes fold themselves when wetted by microscopic droplets
WASHINGTON D.C. June 3, 2014 — Researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands have taken the precise art of origami down to the microscopic scale. […]
Vanishing da Vinci
WASHINGTON D.C. June 3, 2014 — One of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpieces, drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s and widely believed to be […]
Here Come the “Brobots”
WASHINGTON D.C. June 2, 2014 — A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots, which […]