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Aboard the International Space Station, Researchers Investigate Complex Dust Behavior in Plasmas

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 — 400 kilometers above Earth, researchers examined waves in complex plasma under microgravity conditions and found that the microparticles behaved in nonuniform ways […]

Renovations Lead to Big Improvement at Nuclear Astrophysics Lab

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 — In nature, the nuclear reactions that form stars are often accompanied by astronomically high amounts of energy, sometimes over billions of […]

Observing the Mechanism of Metastasis for the First Time

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 — Metastasis, or the formation of secondary tumors, is a leading contributor to the vast majority of deaths related to cancer. The […]

Creating a (Synthetic) Song from a Zebra Finch’s Muscle

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2018 — Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues. While previous research reported […]

Researchers Develop a New Method to Detect Nucleation

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2018 — As a solution evaporates, the dissolved chemicals concentrate until they begin forming a crystal through a process called nucleation. Industries that […]

Blasting Tiny Craters into Glass, Creating a Material to Miniaturize Telecommunications Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2018 — Modern communication systems often employ optical fibers to carry signals across or between devices. The integrated optics in these devices combine […]

New Computer Model Predicts How Fracturing Metallic Glass Releases Energy at the Atomic Level

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2018 — Metallic glasses — alloys lacking the crystalline structure normally found in metals — are an exciting research target for tantalizing applications, […]

Solutions to Water Challenges Reside at the Interface

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — In response to rising water scarcity, leading Argonne National Laboratory researcher Seth Darling describes the most advanced research innovations that could […]

Exploding Waves from Colliding Dissipative Pulses

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — The interaction of traveling waves in dissipative systems, physical systems driven by energy dissipation, can yield unexpected and sometimes chaotic results. […]