RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 10 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * 'Chinese Lantern' Structure Shifts Into More Than a Dozen Shapes for Various Applications Researchers have created a polymer "Chinese lantern" that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting behavior can be controlled remotely using a magnetic field, allowing the structure to be   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: * * * SBA Deadline Approaching to Apply for Physical Disaster Loans for Private Nonprofits in North Carolina * Special announcement Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America's 36 million small businesses. Every day t  more