Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered two distinct mechanisms by which foams can collapse, yielding insight into the prevention/acceleration of foam rupture in industrial materials, e.g., foods, cosmetics, ...
Materials Science
Jun 10, 2019
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A high-gravity experiment has revealed how cells keep their shape under pressure.
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2019
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Swimming bacteria can reduce the viscosity of ordinary liquids like water and make them flow more easily, sometimes down to the point where the viscosity becomes zero: the flow is then frictionless.
Soft Matter
Jul 5, 2018
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Honeybee larvae develop into queen bees only when they are fed large quantities of a food known as royal jelly. But royal jelly does more than determine whether a larva becomes a queen: it also keeps her safely anchored to ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2018
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We learn in school that matter comes in three states: solid, liquid and gas. A bored and clever student (we've all met one) then sometimes asks whether glass is a solid or a liquid.
Condensed Matter
Jul 18, 2017
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A flexible tail allows swimming bacteria to thin the surrounding liquid and to free themselves when trapped along walls or obstacles. This finding could influence how bacterial growth on medical, industrial, and agricultural ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan and Germany has found evidence that suggests the middle of Earth's mantle holds as much water as the planet's oceans. In their paper published ...
To make "clean" fossil fuel burning a reality, researchers have to pull carbon dioxide out of the exhaust gases that rise from coal or natural gas power plants and store or reuse it. For the capturing feat, researchers are ...
Materials Science
May 17, 2016
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Inside mammalian cells, kinesin plays the same role as do trucks and locomotives within our countries: It is the main driving force behind the transport of manufactured goods. No wheels are involved, but there are 'legs' ...
General Physics
Nov 5, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Université Paris-Sud and Université P.M. Curie/Université Paris-Diderot, both in France, has discovered that putting certain types of bacteria into an ordinary fluid, can cause it ...
