Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have unveiled a new method to form tiny 3D metal nanoparticles in prescribed shapes and dimensions using DNA, Nature's building ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 9, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.
Engineering
Feb 15, 2012
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Being an astrophysicist and father of two is no easy task. Just ask Dimitrios Psaltis.
Astronomy
Nov 4, 2016
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What do you get when you put together several tons of steel plates, hundreds of mice, a few evolutionary and molecular biologists and a tiny Nebraska town near the South Dakota border?
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2019
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Cephalopods—which include octopus, squid, and their cuttlefish cousins—are capable of some truly charismatic behaviors. They can quickly process information to transform shape, color, and even texture, blending in with ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2022
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When the Earth was born, it was a mess. Meteors and lightning storms likely bombarded the planet's surface where nothing except lifeless chemicals could survive. How life formed in this chemical mayhem is a mystery billions ...
Biochemistry
Jan 22, 2020
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The backbone is the Swiss Army Knife of mammal locomotion. It can function in all sorts of ways that allows living mammals to have remarkable diversity in their movements. They can run, swim, climb and fly all due, in part, ...
Evolution
Mar 2, 2021
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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Agreement worth up to $37 million with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ...
Engineering
Aug 11, 2012
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Early Earth's accidental deluge via water-carrying comets has long been a stumbling block for those interested in life on other planets.
Space Exploration
Feb 28, 2014
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In The Little Prince, the classic novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the titular prince lives on a house-sized asteroid so small that he can watch the sunset any time of day by moving his chair a few steps.
Astronomy
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