Scientists Measure Earth’s Vast Underground Fungal Webs
A hidden circulatory system pulses just beneath the planet’s surface. There, embedded in the soil, are dense networks…
Scientists Create “Living” Materials That Crawl, Walk, and Dig on Their Own
When the rods and motors are placed in a two-dimensional lattice, the structure behaves differently on a large…
“Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own
University of Amsterdam researchers have unveiled a new type of human-made ‘metamaterials’ that can learn, change shape, and…
Humans Are Born With a Biological Blueprint for Music
Summary: For the last century, music was largely viewed as a cultural invention—a “luxury” of human civilization. However,…