Understanding Nature’s Most Striking Colors
September 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2015 — The tulip called Queen of the Night has a fitting name. Its petals are a lush, deep purple that verges on […]
New Tool for Studying Magnetic, Self-Propelled Bacteria that Resemble Compass Needles
September 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2015 — In the Marvel Comics universe, Professor Xavier and the X-Men are only able to fend off their archrival Magneto, the magnetic […]
Half Diamond, Half Cubic Boron, All Cutting Business
September 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 — Diamonds are forever, except when they oxidize while cutting through iron, cobalt, nickel, chromium, or vanadium at high temperatures. Conversely, cubic […]
Studying Kangaroo Cartilage Could Help Human Treatment
September 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 — If you have survived years of pushing, pulling, lifting, lowering and rotational forces assaulting your shoulders, thank your healthy articular cartilage. […]
A Close-up View of Materials as they Stretch or Compress
September 3, 2015
WASHINGTON D.C. Sept. 8, 2015 — Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This […]
Device May Detect Urinary Tract Infections Faster
August 7, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2015 – Urinary tract infections can quickly move from being a merely miserable experience to a life-threatening condition. Untreated cases may trigger sepsis, […]
Droplets Levitate on a Cushion of Blue Light
August 7, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2015 – Researchers in France have discovered a new way to levitate liquid droplets, which surprisingly also creates a mini light show, with […]
New Benchmarks for Molecular Spectroscopy
August 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have recently used a technique called zero-kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain a list in […]
VIDEO: A Droplet’s Pancake Bounce
August 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2015 — Studies of the impact a droplet makes on solid surfaces hark back more than a century. And until now, it was […]