Even in an environment as seemingly simple as a drop of water, bacteria can organize themselves into complex patterns or arrangements. Through experiments, theory, and computational modeling, scientists from Caltech and Princeton ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 14, 2025
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When a droplet of liquid the size of a grain of icing sugar hits a water-repelling surface, like plastics or certain plant leaves, it can meet one of two fates: stick or bounce. Until now, scientists thought bouncing depended ...
General Physics
Sep 10, 2025
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Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 21, 2025
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Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 21, 2025
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For months, Sabrina Staples stared at a silicone chip no bigger than a postage stamp, trying to coax cells into doing something remarkable. But every time she loaded her delicate microfluidic device with cells, a single rogue ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 12, 2025
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Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable behavior of water.
Planetary Sciences
Jul 29, 2025
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Bubbles burst when their caps rupture. Children discover this phenomenon every summer day, but it also underpins key mechanisms for the spread of pollutants, contaminants, and even infectious disease through the generation ...
Soft Matter
Jul 15, 2025
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Researchers led by a team at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to create tiny droplets of one liquid inside another liquid without mixing the two together.
Nanomaterials
Jun 18, 2025
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Inspired by naturally occurring air bubbles in glaciers, researchers have developed a method to encode messages in ice.
General Physics
Jun 18, 2025
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A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis has documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing smoke rings, during friendly ...
Astrobiology
Jun 5, 2025
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