University at Buffalo receives $2.9 million for modeling/simulations lab

The University at Buffalo, N.Y., has received a $2.9 million National Science Foundation grant to transform the traditional role of a database as a repository for information into an automated computer laboratory that rapidly collects, interprets, and learns from massive amounts of information.

Invisibility cloak sees past a wall

Fractal metamaterials triumph! The quest for front scatter has been realized. Watch a metal wall (monolith) get cloaked with fractal metamaterials, producing front scatter at nearly the intensity of the unobstructed path. Narrated by invisibility cloak source inventor, Nathan Cohen.

3D-printed metamaterial shrinks when heated

Members of Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Additive Manufacturing Initiative, Calif, are among a group of researchers who have developed 3D printed materials with a unique property—instead of expanding when heated, they shrink.