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Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Jelly for Biomedical Materials and Soft Robotics
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Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Jelly for Biomedical Materials and Soft Robotics

The hydrogel material comes from different-sized seaweed particles. Credit: Orlin Velev, NC State University Hydrogels merge two physical forms of the same seaweed material for strength, flexibility. 3D-printable gels with…

14 May 2021 · 3 min read

Hidden Processes Revealed at Work in the Hearts of Massive Stars
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Hidden Processes Revealed at Work in the Hearts of Massive Stars

A simulation of a 3-solar-mass star shows the central, convective core and the waves it generates in the rest of the star’s interior. Credit: Philipp Edelmann Astronomers commonly refer to…

14 May 2021 · 5 min read

Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scientists Say We Must Regulate Air Like Food and Water
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scientists Say We Must Regulate Air Like Food and Water

Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe inside buildings is not regulated to the same degree as the food we eat…

13 May 2021 · 6 min read

Evolutionary Biologists Just Discovered How Some Lizards Are Able to Breathe Underwater
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Evolutionary Biologists Just Discovered How Some Lizards Are Able to Breathe Underwater

Close-up of an Anolis lizard with a rebreathing bubble on its snout. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis lizards,…

13 May 2021 · 5 min read

How to Cloak an Object to Become Invisible to a Thermal Camera
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How to Cloak an Object to Become Invisible to a Thermal Camera

Theoretical method can make objects invisible to a thermal camera, or mimic a different object. Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat…

13 May 2021 · 5 min read

Prehistoric Fossilized Footprints Show Earliest Known Evidence of Mammals at the Seashore
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Prehistoric Fossilized Footprints Show Earliest Known Evidence of Mammals at the Seashore

A reconstruction of the brown-bear-sized mammals (Coryphodon) that made thousands of tracks in a 58-million-year-old, brackish water lagoon in what is now southern Wyoming. Credit: Anton Wroblewski Today, the rocks…

13 May 2021 · 4 min read

Solving The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets
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Solving The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets

Credit: Leiden University A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories couldn’t fully explain this, but…

13 May 2021 · 3 min read

Archaeologists Discover Oldest Direct Evidence for Honey Collecting in Africa in Ancient Clay Pots
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Archaeologists Discover Oldest Direct Evidence for Honey Collecting in Africa in Ancient Clay Pots

Traces of beeswax were detected in 3500 year-old clay pots like this. Credit: Peter Breunig, Goethe University Frankfurt Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of…

13 May 2021 · 5 min read

Of Mice and Spacemen: Understanding Astronaut Muscle Wasting at the Molecular Level
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Of Mice and Spacemen: Understanding Astronaut Muscle Wasting at the Molecular Level

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have sent mice into space to explore effects of spaceflight and reduced gravity on muscle atrophy, or wasting at the molecular level. Most of…

13 May 2021 · 3 min read

Critically Endangered Iconic Great Apes in Borneo Lost Muscle During Fruit Shortages
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Critically Endangered Iconic Great Apes in Borneo Lost Muscle During Fruit Shortages

A male orangutan eating non-fruit vegetation instead of the fruit orangutans prefer on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Credit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan Orangutan Research Project Highlights Need to…

13 May 2021 · 4 min read