Researchers have demonstrated that engineered surfaces can be hydrophilic—meaning they have a strong affinity for water—and yet extremely slippery. The work runs counter to conventional wisdom regarding the development ...
Materials Science
Oct 10, 2022
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108
Investigating how solid matter behaves at enormous pressures, such as those found in the deep interiors of giant planets, is a great experimental challenge. To help address that challenge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
General Physics
Sep 20, 2022
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292
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that a protein excreted by type I (slow) muscle fibers, key to muscle endurance, can cause surrounding myoblasts to differentiate into type I fibers. This upends ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 12, 2022
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129
New research describes food systems designed not by the logic of growth such as efficiency and extraction, but by principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons, and care. It argues that food systems can instead ...
Ecology
Aug 9, 2022
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2011
In conventional wisdom, producing a curved space requires distortions, such as bending or stretching a flat space. A team of researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new method to create curved spaces that also ...
General Physics
Jun 1, 2022
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Climate change doesn't just mean warmer weather. Cold spells can hit unusual lows, too, and the fluctuations between warm and chilly are becoming more extreme.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 13, 2022
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Earth's supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from? Was it present when Earth formed or was it delivered later by meteorites or comets from outer space?
Planetary Sciences
Feb 15, 2022
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234
Dominance hierarchies were first described in chickens a century ago by a Norwegian zoologist who coined the term "pecking order."
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2022
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88
According to the neuronal computational scheme, each neuron functions as an excitable element. The incoming electrical signals from connecting neurons are accumulated, and the neuron generates a short electrical pulse, a ...
General Physics
Jan 6, 2022
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Non-dimensional numbers may sound like a scary, incomprehensible term reserved for scientists in a laboratory, but you have more experience with them than you know. The Mach number measures the speed of an object relative ...
Soft Matter
Dec 23, 2021
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