Bacteria can do it, amoebas can do it, even blood cells can do it: they all have the ability to move in a goal oriented way in liquids. And they do so despite having extremely simple structures without a central control system (such as a brain)….
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Stars or numbers? How rating formats change consumer behavior
What’s the difference between a product rating of 3.5 displayed with stars versus standard numerals? It might very well be the difference between a 4 and a 3 rating in the eyes of the consumer, according to new marketing research from the Cornell…
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A ‘talking’ ape’s death signals the end of an era
Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.
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MRI Gets a Nano-Sized Upgrade – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Conventional MRI scans, familiar to us from hospitals, have a resolution of around one-tenth of a millimeter, which allows them to image incredibly thin slices of our bodies, from head to toe, helping physicians diagnose a variety of medical…
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How We Enjoy Music, and How Much, is Heritable
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Back when I was a mohawked teenager, my mother was horrified by the music that…
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The ethereal fire of blue lava
Despite the name, blue lava is not actually molten lava, but rather an extremely rare natural phenomenon caused by the combustion of sulphuric gases emitted from certain volcanoes and fumarole vents.
Unlike the familiar warm red and orange hue in…
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New gene editor enables greater precision
Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they’d probably describe a system that’s now close to realization in the labs of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons…
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Researchers develop new metallic materials using data-driven frameworks and explainable AI
Found in knee replacements and bone plates, aircraft components, and catalytic converters, the exceptionally strong metals known as multiple principal element alloys (MPEA) are about to get even stronger through to artificial intelligence.
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CMU’s Autonomous Reforestation Robot Earns National Award
05/15/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Appleseed Labs, a team within the Kantor Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, received the Excellence in Regenerative Agriculture award at the 2025 Farm Robotics Challenge. The team was advised…
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Seafloor amber may hold hints of a tsunami 115 million years ago
Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers report May 15 in Scientific Reports.
Tsunamis can be destructive and, to anything alive nearby, often…
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