8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (127+ words) Carles Lalueza-Fox is a leading research expert on the retrieval and analysis of ancient genomes, including extinct hominins, past human populations, and pathogens. He is Director of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona and the author of several books, including…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (144+ words) Darren Rhodes is a cognitive computational neuroscientist and Director of the Environmental Temporal Cognition Lab at Keele University, United Kingdom. His primary research explores how humans perceive time, particularly in extreme environments, alongside investigations into multi-sensory processing and the nature…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (817+ words) Home → Science → Robotics Scientists built autonomous robots smaller than a grain of salt, and they can think. The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago   (765+ words) Researchers turn a mosquito’s blood-sucking tool into a micro-scale printing nozzle. Under a microscope, the mosquito’s proboscis looks like a tiny, precision tool. Thin, flexible, and sharp, it slips through skin almost unnoticed to draw blood. To most people, it’s…...

10+ mon, 2+ day ago   (336+ words) Dr. Nicholas is joined the Department of Orthodontics, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), in 2016 and became an Associate Professor in 2023. She received her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa (2015). Following the completion…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) The tiny hunter tracks insects by sound....

10+ mon, 2+ day ago   (863+ words) One morning, biologist Leah Bushin checked on a flask of bacteria and noticed something unusual: the liquid had turned a deep maroon. The microbes had produced xanthommatin, a natural pigment that, until then, had proven remarkably difficult to make artificially....

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (583+ words) A new hydrogel-based technique could make 3D-printed metals 20 times stronger. Engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have reimagined what it means to 3D print metal. Instead of forcing printers to handle molten alloys or heavy metal powders, they’ve…...

11+ mon, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) Meet the bamboo plastic that’s tough enough for cars and safe for the planet. Most plastic forks, bottles, and shopping bags ever made still exist somewhere. Most are buried in a landfill or drifting in the oceans. Petrochemical plastics have…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (751+ words) SpudCell blurs the line between chemistry and life, but it is not life yet. A tiny blob in a dish has pushed one of biology’s oldest questions into new territory: When does inanimate chemistry become life? What these findings suggest…...