Penn physicists discover why drying liquid crystal drops leave unusual ‘coffee rings’
Credit: University of Pennsylvania In previous papers, University of Pennsylvania physicists investigated the "coffee ring effect," the ring-shaped stain of ...
Heavy particles get caught up in the flow
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY - By teasing out signatures of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter ...
A glove powered by soft robotics to interact with virtual reality environments
Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, ...
New plasmonic sensor improves early cancer detection
Credit: University of Illinois A new plasmonic sensor developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will serve ...
Groundwater ‘pit stops’ enabled survival and migration of our ancient ancestors
An international team led by a researcher at Cardiff University believe that the movement of our ancestors across East Africa ...
Nitrogen fixation research could shed light on biological mystery
Inspired by a natural process found in certain bacteria, a team of Caltech researchers is inching closer to a new ...
Scientists detect light-matter interaction in single layer of atoms
Credit: University of Central Florida University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new and better way of detecting interactions ...
Physicists explore elusive high-energy particles in a crystal
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Mid-infrared wavelengths of light are invisible to the eye but can be useful for a number of ...
NASA observes heavy monsoon rainfall in Sri Lanka
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM satellite constellation provided rainfall data after ...
Breaking glass in infinite dimensions
Credit: Sasha Taylor, CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. DURHAM, N.C. -- Zoom in on a crystal and you will find an ordered array ...
New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized jets but on ...
‘Quantum leap’ for Liverpool
Credit: University of Liverpool Physicists from the University of Liverpool have made a huge step forwards towards building a novel ...
Do stars fall quietly into black holes, or crash into something utterly unknown?
Credit: Mark A. Garlick/CfA AUSTIN, Texas -- Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have put ...
Frequency modulation accelerates the research of quantum technologies
Many modern technological advances and devices are based on understanding quantum mechanics. Compared to semiconductors, hard disk drives or lasers, ...
Neutron lifetime measurements take new shape for in situ detection
Credit: Chen-Yu Liu, Physics Department, Indiana University WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2017 -- All matter making up the stars, our ...
Tactile feedback adds ‘muscle sense’ to prosthetic hand
Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University Engineers working to add "muscle sense" to prosthetic limbs found that tactile feedback on the skin ...
ESO signs contracts for the ELT’s gigantic primary mirror
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada The unique optical system of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope consists of five mirrors, each of which represents ...
Magnetoelectric memory cell increases energy efficiency for data storage
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2017 -- Today's computers provide storage of tremendous quantities of information with extremely large data densities, ...
NASA’s ‘Webb-cam’ captures engineers at work on Webb at Johnson Space Center
Credit: Credits: NASA/Desiree Stover NASA's special "Webb-cam" kept an eye on the development of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at ...
CMU’s interactive tool helps novices and experts make custom robots
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH - A new interactive design tool developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute enables both ...
