Feature stories
Oct 15, 2018
in
Using puffed rice to simulate collapsing ice shelves and rockfill dams
A pair of researchers at the University of Sydney has found that puffed rice and milk can serve as a stand-in to simulate collapsing ice shelves and rockfill dams. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
Ecologists suggest it is time to rethink the modern lawn
A pair of urban ecologists, one from Australia, the other Sweden, suggests in a Perspective piece published in the journal Science that it might be time to rethink the idea of the modern lawn. In their paper, Maria Ignatieva ...
Nanoscale spin-wave circuits based on engineered reconfigurable spin-textures
Information processing technologies that are typically based on electron charges can also theoretically make use of the electric spin. Magnon spintronics can harness quantized spin waves, magnons, as carriers of spin currents ...
Molecular and cellular biologist wins Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for work on mouse brains
Johannes Kohl, a molecular and cellular biologist at Harvard University, has been awarded the grand prize in the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology competition. He describes his work in an Essay on Science and Society ...
Galaxy NGC 3256 contains substantial amounts of dark matter, study suggests
Study shows people died from body fluid vaporization due to pyroclastic flows from Vesuvius
A team of researchers at the Federico II University Hospital in Italy has found evidence that suggests many people living in Herculaneum during the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius were killed by the extreme heat characteristic ...
Uncovering the role of the ilio-sacral joint in frogs
A trio of researchers, two with the Royal Veterinary College, the other the University of Portsmouth, has found evidence that suggests that the ilio-sacral joint in frogs evolved after they started jumping. In their paper ...
3-D printing hierarchical liquid-crystal-polymer structures
Biological materials from bone to spider-silk and wood are lightweight fibre composites arranged in a complex hierarchical structure, formed by directed self-assembly to demonstrate outstanding mechanical properties. When ...
Repurposing dimethyloxalylglycine to inhibit glutamine metabolism
A team of researchers from the U.K. and the U.S. has found that a drug used to study hypoxia can also be used to inhibit glutamine metabolism—a possible means for targeting cancer cells by cutting off their supply line. ...
