BOUNCING BITES

Bouncing Back

W hen an injury forces an athlete out of training and/or competition, the return-to-play (RTP) decision-making process may be simple or multidimensional. When analyzing these situations, an important factor to consider is why the injury occurred in the first place. Was the injury a result of an unavoidable trauma, such as a hit to the knee in a contact sport, or the result of fatigue or poor co...

Bouncing surface plasmons.

Employing an interferometric cavity ring-down technique we study the launching, propagation and reflection of surface plasmons on a smooth gold-air interface that is intersected by two parallel, sub-wavelength wide slits. Inside the low-finesse optical cavity defined by these slits the surface plasmon is observed to make multiple bounces. Our experimental data allow us to determine the surface-...

Bio-Bites!

Bio-Bites!

Vermont has mandated labeling of food containing genetically modified ingredients by July 2016. Representatives of the food and biotechnology industries and the Us Grocery Manufacturers Association in Washington DC are opposed to the law, and it is likely to be challenged in the federal court. References the week in science: Britain pledges to be more open about animal research; stanford Univer...

Bio-Bites!