Launched in 2006, the New Horizons space probe is powered by plutonium. (No surprise there!) It will take 16 months for the probe to transmit all its data to Earth.
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches Pluto
Density-near-zero acoustical metamaterial made
Researchers created a tunable membrane “metamaterial” with near-zero density, effectively recreating the quantum tunneling effect for sound waves
New microscope offers convenient investigation of crystalline structures
Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany, launched the DM4 P polarization microscope for the investigation of crystalline structures such as minerals, plastics and polymers, drugs and pharmaceuticals, or pigments, and cement.
The incredible shrinking ESR machine
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., came up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large machines that make bulk measurements of samples down to a literally pinpoint-precision probe.
Smart implants dissolve after healing
A team at the NSF Engineering Research Center at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is working to transform current medical and surgical treatments by creating “smart” implants.