Actuators inspired by cucumber plants could make robots move more naturally in response to their environments, or be used for devices in inhospitable places.
Italy’s Campi Flegrei is showing some troubling early warning signs, but scientists caution that its eruption is far from certain.
Neutrinos at one time it was thought a type of neutrino would become a tachyon.
Neutrinos are bizarre and ubiquitous and may just break the rules of physics.
How does Walter Benjamin use the insights of Marxism and theology to conceptualize history and the future?
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Analysis of sedimentary rocks from the mid-Proterozoic interval reveals traces of protosteroids, suggesting the widespread presence of stem-group eukaryotes that predated and co-existed with the crown-group ancestors of modern eukaryotes.
Summary: Researchers discovered sequence variants in the gene ABCC9 that influence voice pitch.
Utilizing speech recordings from nearly 13,000 Icelanders and corresponding genomic data, the scientists identified common ABCC9 variants associated with higher voice pitch in both men and women. Additionally, these variants were linked to higher pulse pressure, revealing intriguing connections between voice pitch and health.
The study also uncovered a heritable component in vowel acoustics, enhancing our understanding of the human vocal system.
Dark matter, the invisible material that makes up the vast majority of the universe’s mass, may collect itself to form atoms, a new simulation shows.
Those “dark atoms” might radically alter the evolution of galaxies and the formation of stars, giving astronomers a new opportunity to understand this mysterious substance.
Chinese scientists have devised a technique to coat everyday materials like paper and plastic with liquid metal, potentially creating “smart devices.” The method, which involves adjusting pressure rather than using a binding material, successfully enables the liquid metal to adhere to surfaces, a previously challenging task due to high surface tension.
Everyday materials such as paper and plastic could be transformed into electronic “smart devices” by using a simple new method to apply liquid metal to surfaces, according to scientists in Beijing, China. The study, published June 9 in the journal Cell Reports.
<em>Cell Reports</em> is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that published research papers that report new biological insight across a broad range of disciplines within the life sciences. Established in 2012, it is the first open access journal published by Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier.