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- Origami comes to life with new shape-changing materials
- Why weren't New World rabbits domesticated?
- Thumb-sized device quickly 'sniffs out' bad breath
- Rounding errors could make certain stopwatches pick wrong race winners, researchers show
- The weather forecast for Venus
- Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions
- Fully booked at the bottom of the sea: There seems no room for new bacteria on sand grains
- Using ultra-low temperatures to understand high-temperature superconductivity
| Origami comes to life with new shape-changing materials Posted: 21 Jul 2021 11:19 AM PDT Researchers have created butterflies that flap their wings, flower petals that wiggle with the touch of a button and self-folding origami drawing on new advances in soft robotics. |
| Why weren't New World rabbits domesticated? Posted: 21 Jul 2021 11:19 AM PDT Rabbits were raised for over a thousand years in Mexico without becoming domesticated. A new study finds that their solitary lifestyle and greater species diversity made domestication unlikely. |
| Thumb-sized device quickly 'sniffs out' bad breath Posted: 21 Jul 2021 09:07 AM PDT Researchers have constructed a portable, thumb-sized device that diagnoses bad breath by quickly 'sniffing' exhalations for the gas that makes it stinky -- hydrogen sulfide. |
| Rounding errors could make certain stopwatches pick wrong race winners, researchers show Posted: 21 Jul 2021 09:07 AM PDT Simulated swimming race times show a small number of times recorded on quartzite oscillator-based devices are off by margins large enough to determine winners. |
| The weather forecast for Venus Posted: 21 Jul 2021 09:07 AM PDT Little is known about the weather at night on Venus as the absence of sunlight makes imaging difficult. Now, researchers have devised a way to use infrared sensors on board the Venus orbiter Akatsuki to reveal the first details of the nighttime weather of our nearest neighbor. Their analytical methods could be used to study other planets including Mars and gas giants as well. |
| Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions Posted: 21 Jul 2021 09:06 AM PDT An international team of researchers is combining soft scalp electronics and virtual reality in a brain-interface system. |
| Fully booked at the bottom of the sea: There seems no room for new bacteria on sand grains Posted: 21 Jul 2021 07:23 AM PDT Whether summer or winter, midnight sun or polar night, the sand on the ocean floor is always inhabited by the same bacteria. Although the microbial communities differ between different ocean regions, they do not change between the seasons. Presumably, there is simply no room for change. Researchers now describe this phenomenon in a new study. |
| Using ultra-low temperatures to understand high-temperature superconductivity Posted: 21 Jul 2021 07:22 AM PDT A so-called 'strange metal', well-known for its unusual properties, has been shown to be a superconductor at very low temperatures. This allows scientists to study the connection between 'strange metal'-behavior and superconductivity, which could be an important step towards understanding the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. |
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