Gas vesicles are among the largest known protein nanostructures produced and assembled inside microbial cells. These hollow, ...

The method, described in Advanced Materials, replaces the slow, multi-step molding and casting process that traditionally defines soft robotics. Researchers have figured out how to 3D-print ...

This isn’t even the first time the French have used their ass as a junk drawer. In 2022, an 88-year-old in Toulon “fell” on a ...

If you break open a chicken bone, you won’t find a solid mass of white material inside. Instead, you will see a complex, ...

In 1886, chemist W. J. Rendell manufactured the first birth control suppository. It contained a cocoa butter shell for suppositories that melted in the body to release the medication quinine, a drug ...

Researchers at University of Jyväskylä (Finland) advance understanding of gold nanocluster behavior at elevated temperatures ...

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Researchers at Mass General Brigham and Karolinska Institutet have identified a new method to predict asthma exacerbations with a high degree of accuracy. The study is published in Nature ...

Rice bioengineers developed a new genetic regulatory system that makes the production of gas vesicles more sustainable for nonnative host cells.

Gov. Wes Moore (D), who calls quantum computing a “lighthouse industry” for Maryland, has secured more than $1 billion in ...

How can people use the internet in authoritarian countries like China, Russia and Iran without revealing their identity? Are there workarounds besides VPNs and proxy servers?

Researchers at UNICAMP enhance low-cost catalysts for hydrogen production by engineering structural defects, improving ...