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Iowa State Engineer Helps Army Lab Study the Fundamental Physics of Diesel … Newswise — AMES, Iowa – The compression-ignition, internal-combustion engine goes all the way back to the 1890s and the work of one Rudolf Diesel. All these decades later, engineers have developed advanced diesels featuring higher pressures, lighter … Read more on Newswise (press […]

Cheating on physics gets us great microscopes and three Nobel Prizes

Cheating on physics gets us great microscopes and three Nobel Prizes Standard fluorescence microscopy (left) and PALM images (right). Note that the scale bar in the far right image is roughly the diffraction limit. Nobel Prizes/originally Betzig et. al., Science. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors an … Read more on Ars Technica STEM […]