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…
New spider discovered in Queensland uses ‘ballista’ web to trap prey
A bizarre species of spider from the remote rainforests of Far North Queensland springs a nasty surprise when…
Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand
A remarkable fossil discovery inside a cave near Waitomo on New Zealand’s North Island is giving scientists an…
A concrete-free wind turbine could change how renewable energy is deployed worldwide |
For decades, wind power has relied on a familiar formula: enormous towers, vast concrete foundations and specialised heavy-lift…
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space
NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is back in operation aboard the International Space Station, giving researchers a powerful…
Scientists show quantum mechanics can work without imaginary numbers
A new analysis conducted by researchers at the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf and the German Aerospace Center…
A blind cave salamander called the olm is projected to live past a hundred years, and biologists still cannot explain how it ages so slowly
In the flooded caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives a pale, blind salamander the size of a pencil,…
Plant Viruses Advance Virus-Induced Gene Editing
Plant scientists are looking for faster and more flexible ways to edit crop genomes, especially in plants that…
Seal-skinning ‘showdown’ pits hunter against hunter
Crowd of 100 forms in Iqaluit to watch contest to see who can prepare their meat the fastest…
The planet that lost its crown. 28 amazing facts about Pluto, the icy world on the edge of the Solar System
It used to be the farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System, until it was declassified.…
Astronomers Discover a Sleeping Giant: Ancient Black Hole 6 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster…
Family finds large snake hiding behind living room TV
June 22 (UPI) — A professional reptile wrangler was called to a Queensland, Australia, home where a large…