A Sea Worm’s Incredible “Bio-Metal” Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material
A cross-section of a bristle worm jaw sample with the indentation testing sites labeled 1 to 11. Credit:…
Creases as information bottlenecks in active elastic sheets
Odell, G. M., Oster, G., Alberch, P. & Burnside, B. The mechanical basis of morphogenesis: I. Epithelial folding…
How Flocking Birds “Defy” One of Physics’ Most Fundamental Laws
Flocks of birds, bacteria and tissue cells: in some collective systems, the individual elements respond to only part…
Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics
Human sperm cells may swim by exploiting unusual “odd elasticity” within their flagella, helping them move through highly…
A Strange Quantum Effect May Explain One of Biology’s Greatest Mysteries
Researchers have uncovered a possible explanation for why living systems repeatedly choose one molecular form instead of its…
The hydrodynamic torque dipole from rotary bacterial flagella powers symmetric discs
Bacteria are torque dipoles and swim in circles As our observations were performed near the bottom of a…
Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology
Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For…
Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change
Sample collection, site description and soil characterization Twenty topsoils were sampled across a range of pH values (4.7–8.32)…