Temperature of C. elegans measured via tracking of embedded nanodiamonds. Credit: Masazumi Fujiwara, Osaka City University A team from Osaka City University, in collaboration with…
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Postdoctoral associate Junwei Li, lead author of the study, holds an example of a capsule containing their enzyme. Credit: Image by Melanie Gonick/MIT MIT engineers…
Discrete particle distribution of urinal flushing. Credit: Ji-Xiang Wang Using a public restroom? Mask up! Think you don’t need to worry about COVID-19 while using…
Color map showing the amount of time a free-falling 100-micron droplet at an initial height of 1.6 meters is affected by temperature and humidity. For…
The paradise tree snake mid-glide during the team’s motion experiments. Credit: Jake Socha Interdisciplinary team finds the motion enhances Chrysopelea paradisi’s rotational stability. The snakes…
Vortex caused by common annular flushing. Credit: J.-X. Wang Coronavirus could be transmitted through a long-lasting cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets ejected from a flushing…
Princeton-led team trains wild hummingbirds to discriminate UV color combinations. To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their…
Development concept of nanocellulosic oriented film based on liquid-phase 3D patterning technology. Credit: Osaka University Researchers at Osaka University develop liquid-phase 3D-patterning to create nanocellulose…
Saliva droplets can travel large distances, depending on environmental conditions such as wind speed, temperature, pressure and humidity. Wind shown blowing left to right at…
Flexible walls, here in blue, a few hundred microns high emulate the surface of a gecko’s foot to make the same kind of adhesive force…
Scientists are exploring the structural and chemical characteristics of cicada wings. Credit: Photo by Wayne Boo, U.S. Geological Survey Biological structures sometimes have unique features…
Fast, Flexible, Powerful Bioelectronic Devices Are Two Steps Closer With Columbia’s Soft Transistors
Conformable enhancement-mode, internal ion-gated organic electrochemical transistor (e-IGT) A) Micrograph displaying the top view of an e-IGT (top). Scale bar, 5 μm. Ultra-flexible, ultra-thin e-IGT…
Using musical scores to code the structure and folding of proteins composed of amino acids, each of which vibrates with a unique sound. Credit: Markus…
Close-up of a tubular structure made by simultaneous printing and self-assembling between graphene oxide and a protein. Credit: Professor Alvaro Mata An international team of…
Weightlifters could do less and get stronger by changing the amount they lift each session, according to new research. Sports scientists from the University of…
Green Slime covers the surface of a tadpole (bottom) and a goblet-cell regenerated aggregate (top, not the same scale). The images show the molecule intelectin-1,…
“Knock-down” of insulin-like peptide 2 (ILP2) causes a significant reduction in the size of the mandibles of a male Gnatocerus cornutus beetle. Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan…
Three dimensional density map and atomic model of the native supercoiled flagellar hook revealed by cryoEM image analysis. Left: side view; right: a central section.…
A woman carrying a heavy load on a flexible bamboo pole walking on a force plate. Credit: Bertram Lab, University of Calgary Carrying heavy loads…
Impacts of arrows with different feathers on a target – INSEP, France. Credit: Tom Maddalena Researchers examine how archery accuracy is affected by arrow size…