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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 […]

Scientists Twist Sound with Metamaterials

February 25, 2014

WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 25, 2014 — A Chinese-U.S. research team is exploring the use of metamaterials — artificial materials engineered to have exotic properties not found in […]

Bats Inspire “Micro Air Vehicle” Designs

February 18, 2014

WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 18, 2014 — By exploring how creatures in nature are able to fly by flapping their wings, Virginia Tech researchers hope to apply that […]

New Way to Measure Electron Pair Interactions

February 12, 2014

WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 11, 2014 — Shoot a powerful beam of light or particles at certain special materials and you will liberate electrons — pairs of them […]

Smooth Sailing: Rough surfaces that can reduce drag

January 17, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 17, 2014 — From the sleek hulls of racing yachts to Michael Phelps’ shaved legs, most objects that move through the water quickly are […]

Energy Storage in Miniaturized Capacitors May Boost Green Energy Technology

January 17, 2014

WASHINGTON D.C. Jan. 17, 2014 — The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries – storing electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices […]

Clot-Busters, Caught on Tape

December 13, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 13, 2013 — Ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles have been showing promise in recent years as a non-invasive way to break up dangerous blood clots. But though […]

GRAPHENE: Growing Giants

December 6, 2013

WASHINGTON D.C. Dec. 6, 2013 — To technology insiders, graphene is a certified big deal. The one-atom thick carbon-based material elicits rhapsodic descriptions as the strongest, thinnest […]

New Thermoelectronic Generator

December 3, 2013

WASHINGTON D.C. Dec. 3, 2013 — Through a process known as thermionic conversion, heat energy — such as light from the sun or heat from burned fossil […]