Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, winter storms, and tornadoes, have become a major cause of large-scale electric power outages in recent years, causing billions of…
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Low-dose steroids could effectively treat severe kidney inflammation
Credit: University Hospital Bonn / lab Prof. Christian Kurts Will it be possible to treat severe kidney inflammation with fewer drugs in the future? A new study by the University…
Foldable solar sails could help with aerobraking and atmospheric reentry
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) in orbit. Credit: NASA Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in…
Why Your Brain and Mine Agree on What We See
Summary: A new study reveals how uniquely wired human brains can perceive the world in strikingly similar ways. Researchers recorded live neural activity in epilepsy patients and found that while…
‘Metabots’ shapeshift from flat sheets into hundreds of structures
Researchers have created a class of robots made from thin sheets of material connected into sheets that can snap into any of hundreds of stable shapes, allowing them to execute…
Feeling the Music: Touch Amplifies Emotional Power of Sound
Summary: A new study shows that combining touch with hearing profoundly intensifies emotional responses to music. Using a custom-built device that transforms sound into tactile vibrations, researchers found that people…
These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source
A telltale hint was on the bee’s knees. An analysis of 127 fossil flowers, flower buds and bees from central Germany revealed pollen particles that precisely matched ancient flowers to…
Amplifying collective light emission with atomic interactions
Visualization of atoms placed in an optical cavity, interacting with each other as well as with the light mode. Credit: Yao Wang, Emory University A team of physicists from the…
A new private moon lander rises: Impulse Space throws its hat into the lunar ring
A new private moon lander could take flight just a few years from now. Impulse Space — a commercial space company founded by Tom Mueller, the first employee the billionaire…
Barbara Bignon | In good form: Morphological adaptations to burrowing lifestyles in cockroaches – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, we’re looking at a familiar (and often un-welcomed) six-legged friend – the cockroach! Discussing the recently published paper: “In good form: morphological adaptations to burrowing lifestyles…
