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The Price of Chaos: A New Model Virtually Pits New Investors Against Experienced Ones

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2018 — Financial investing attracts a range of casual neophytes to Wall Street financiers. Variation in expertise and risk-taking behaviors among investors regularly […]

The Vessel Not Taken: Understanding Disproportionate Blood Flow

Each time a blood vessel splits into smaller vessels, red blood cells (RBCs) are presented with the same decision: Take the left capillary or the right. While […]

A Better Way to Control Crystal Vibrations

The vibrational motion of an atom in a crystal propagates to neighboring atoms, which leads to wavelike propagation of the vibrations throughout the crystal. The way in […]

Robotic Assembly of the World’s Smallest House — Even A Mite Doesn’t Fit Through the Door!

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2018 — A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new microrobotics system that pushes forward the frontiers […]

Building Better Beta Peptides

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2018 — Designing bioscaffolds offers bioengineers greater flexibility when it comes to tissue engineering and biomedicine. Systems that use self-assembling peptides can create […]

Design for Magnetoelectric Device May Improve Your Memory

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 4, 2018 — For years, manufacturers have offered computers with increasing amounts of memory packed into smaller devices. But semiconductor companies can’t reduce the […]

A Potentially Cheap, Efficient and Eco-Friendly System for Purifying Natural Gas

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 3, 2018 — Fundamental researchers at the Colorado School of Mines have proposed a novel two-part system for separating impurities from natural gas in […]

Sweating the Small Stuff

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 1, 2018 — When people sweat, they unknowingly release a wide range of chemicals that can noninvasively inform clinicians on anything from stress hormone levels […]

Molecular Evolution: How the Building Blocks of Life May Form In Space

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2018 — In a laboratory experiment that mimics astrophysical conditions, with cryogenic temperatures in an ultrahigh vacuum, scientists used an electron gun to […]