Snake bellies help scientists get a grip
For many of us, the bodies of moving snakes look like little more than wiggly strands of spaghetti.
For many of us, the bodies of moving snakes look like little more than wiggly strands of spaghetti.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2015
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A huge expansion in the quantity and complexity of international standards is an increasingly serious issue in fields such as advanced engineering. Now, a research project headed by a University of Huddersfield professor ...
Software
Sep 8, 2015
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Many natural surfaces can rapidly shed water droplets due to their water-repellent functionality. In 1945, scientists Cassie and Baxter linked the water-repellent function of natural surfaces to their surface textures. The ...
Depth cameras and other motion-tracking devices allow people to use natural gestures to play computer games, yet the experience remains unnatural because they can't feel what their eyes can see. Disney Research, Pittsburgh, ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 19, 2013
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Biodegradable and compostable plastic bags are still capable of carrying full loads of shopping after being exposed in the natural environment for three years, a new study shows.
Environment
Apr 29, 2019
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Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene, researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 23, 2015
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An MIT team has developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth, or ridged or bumpy, or even to have complex patterns that could ...
Materials Science
Jun 11, 2015
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Before and after satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission show the scale of the oil spill that occurred off the shores of Trinidad and Tobago's coastline earlier this week. The ship, identified as The Gulfstream, ...
Environment
Feb 16, 2024
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have discovered details about the behavior of ultrafast laser pulses that may lead to new applications in manufacturing, diagnostics and other research.
General Physics
Dec 19, 2011
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How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis of the surface textures ...
Archaeology
Jul 28, 2016
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