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“It was pretty amazing how well the experimental data and numerical simulation matched,” Eckert said. In fact, it matched so closely that Carenza’s first response was that it must be wrong. The team jokingly worried that a peer reviewer…

The preference change might have had something to do with the crabs’ nutrient needs changing as their metabolism speeds ramped up. If they’re generating higher pinch forces at higher temperatures, that might also expand the list of the…

The slowdown of physical activity during adolescence is not likely caused by lifestyle and environment but by energy demands placed on the body as it grows and sexually matures, according to a new study by researchers at the University of…

A breath sensor device created using hybrid silicon-silk transistors can rapidly and accurately track breathing patterns in real time. “This opens up a new way of…

When it came to the substantial number that were unknown, the team conducted one more study, using the best understood (at the genetic level) organism of all: Drosophila melanogaster. These fruit flies have been the subject of research for…

At the start of his third year of graduate school, Kazi Albab Hussain became a father. As a new dad and a PhD student studying environmental nanotechnology, plastic was on his mind. The year before, scientists had discovered that plastic…

A dense rainforest or other verdant terrestrial vegetation may be what first comes to mind at the mention of photosynthesis. Yet the clouds of phytoplankton that fill the oceans are the major drivers of that process in nature. The plantlike…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This story was originally reported on ReadWrite.com.In a world where AI services like ChatGPT and Midjourney dominate the hype cycle, this might sound like quite…

Gideon Lichfield: OK, but let me play the synthetic biology devil's advocate for a second.Lauren Goode: OK, OK.Gideon Lichfield: When you have kids, you are throwing the genetic dice, you are mixing your DNA and that of your partners,…

Steps away from the public restrooms in Yosemite Village, a buzzy stop in Yosemite National Park’s iconic valley, sits a brown metal dumpster. Visitors reach up to open the trash chute. Their peanut butter jars and apple cores tumble into a…