Did you know that sponges can move? While not exactly the champions of underwater acrobatics, sponges exhibit coordinated movements — despite not having muscles or...
A new book published today analyses the space, identity and everyday life of Dongbei, China’s storied northeast region. “Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China”,...
Plant architecture is the outcome of several successive developmental processes that can be classified into two events: organogenesis and extension. Organogenesis stems from the meristems...
“Artificial molecular motors are molecules that absorb light from an external source, such as sunlight, and convert the energy in light into kinetic energy,” says...
A new commentary, published by members of the Energy Demand Changes Induced by Technological and Social Innovations (EDITS) network, coordinated by IIASA, highlights that switching...
All animals need sleep. When humans or animals don’t get enough, it can lead to trouble paying attention, irritability, and other ill effects. And yet,...
WHAT: Scientists have unexpectedly discovered that the weakened form of the bacteria Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii) not typically known to cause disease, naturally acquired an...
Princeton researchers have learned to harness the gossamer scaffolding that maintains the structure of living cells and used it to develop a nanotechnology platform. The...
Hundreds of tons of dead fish flowed down the Oder River at the turn of July and August 2022. The scale of the event was...
AMSTERDAM and TUCSON, Ariz., January 25, 2024 — Critical Path Institute (C-Path) today announced the promotion of Cécile Ollivier, M.S., from Managing Director, Europe to Vice President of Global Affairs.Credit:...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2024 – AIP and the American Physical Society (APS) are pleased to announce David Brydges as the recipient of the 2024 Dannie...
UTSA announced a pioneering initiative to reshape its academic landscape with the creation of a new college dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, computing, data...
(SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS) — Mason Leist is working remotely—127 million light-years from Earth—on images of a supermassive black hole in his office at the UTSA Department...
Are there specific communities that bear the brunt of suicide mortality? Certain studies have revealed that historically marginalized and economically deprived indigenous populations are linked...
Perchlorates are a class of compounds that are notorious for their explosive nature. This raises safety concerns during experiments involving complex compounds that contain perchlorate...
