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Sensitive Detection Method May Help Impede Illicit Nuclear Trafficking

WASHINGTON D.C., April 15, 2014 — According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the greatest danger to nuclear security comes from terrorists acquiring sufficient quantities of […]

Device Turns Flat Surface into Spherical Antenna

WASHINGTON D.C., April 14, 2014 — By depositing an array of tiny, metallic, U-shaped structures onto a dielectric material, a team of researchers in China has created […]

Is the Power Grid too Big?

WASHINGTON D.C., April 8, 2014 — Some 90 years ago, British polymath J.B.S. Haldane proposed that for every animal there is an optimal size — one which […]

Future Computers that are “Normally Off”

WASHINGTON D.C., April 8, 2014 — If a research team in Japan gets its wish, “normally off” computers may one day soon be replacing present computers in […]

Wind Energy: On the grid, Off the Checkerboard

WASHINGTON D.C., April 1, 2014 — As wind farms grow in importance across the globe as sources of clean, renewable energy, one key consideration in their construction […]

Mars Mimicking Chamber Explores Habitability of Other Planets

WASHINGTON D.C., March 25, 2014 — A research team in Spain has the enviable job of testing out new electromechanical gear for potential use in future missions […]

New View of Supernova Death Throes

WASHINGTON D.C., March 18, 2014 — A powerful, new three-dimensional model provides fresh insight into the turbulent death throes of supernovas, whose final explosions outshine entire galaxies […]

How Twitter Shapes Public Opinion

WASHINGTON D.C., March 11, 2014 — How exactly does Twitter, with its 241 million users tweeting out 500 million messages daily, shape public opinion? That question was […]

What Makes Flying Snakes Such Gifted Gliders?

WASHINGTON D.C. Mar. 4, 2014 — Animal flight behavior is an exciting frontier for engineers to both apply knowledge of aerodynamics and to learn from nature’s solutions […]