Watch for the patterns created as the circles move across each other. Those patterns, created by two sets of lines offset from each other, are called moiré (pronounced mwar-AY) effects. As optical il… [+6361 chars]
Scientists have recently designed an artificial flexible sensory nerve capable of neural coding, tactile sensing, and performing synaptic processing functions. Interestingly, this device does not dep… [+6245 chars]
National University of Singapore researchers have predicted that Landau levels belonging to different valleys in a two-dimensional (2D) valleytronic material, monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2), ca… [+3390 chars]
Northwestern University chemists have taken inspiration from plants to revolutionize the way an important industrial chemical is made. In a first for the field, the Northwestern team used light and … [+4446 chars]
The second winning entry was put together by a team of students consisting of Ziba Artystone, Filip Fernström, Måns Rydh, and Edvard Norman from the Forsbergs Advertising School in Stockholm, Sweden.… [+563 chars]
Mars is hardly a verdant world today, yet evidence abounds that liquid water once flowed over the Red Planet. Now, the latest rover to arrive on Marss surfaceZhurong, part of Chinas Tianwen-1 mission… [+4387 chars]
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest moon in the solar system. Having a diameter of 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers), Titan is even larger than the planet Mercury. Titan is among … [+3621 chars]
New work led by Carnegie's Zhiyong Wang untangles a complex cellular signaling process that underpins plants' ability to balance expending energy on growth and defending themselves from pathogens. Th… [+4810 chars]
Integration of environmental signals on the expression of the photoprotection-related genes. (A) Schematic summary of changing light quality and quantity throughout the day. Blue light reaches deeper… [+6477 chars]
In this series of posts, we sit down with a few of the keynote speakers of the 240th AAS meeting to learn more about them and their research. You can see a full schedule of their talks here, and read… [+2870 chars]
Within the same species of butterfly many different wing patterns can occur. How is this possible? According to researchers Ben Wielstra and Emma Berdan, of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), the… [+3992 chars]
BySpace Telescope Science InstituteJune 14, 2022 This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant of a massive … [+19945 chars]
