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Plants that can move inspire new adaptive structures
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The Mimosa plant, which folds its leaves when they’re touched, is inspiring a new class of adaptive structures designed to twist, bend, stiffen and even heal themselves. University of Michigan researchers are leading their developm…
A guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue
Astronomers have a neat trick they sometimes use to compensate for the turbulence of the atmosphere that blurs images made by ground-based telescopes. They create an artificial star called a guide star and use its twinkling to compensate for the…
Nanonets give rust a boost as agent in water splitting’s hydrogen harvest
CHESTNUT HILL, MA (2/9/2011) — Coating a lattice of tiny wires called Nanonets with iron oxide — known more commonly as rust — creates an economical and efficient platform for the process of water splitting, an emerging clean fuel scienc…
Where unconscious memories form
A small area deep in the brain called the perirhinal cortex is critical for forming unconscious conceptual memories, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain have found.
The perirhinal cortex was thought to be involved, like the neigh…
Stem cell patch may result in improved function following heart attack
CINCINNATI — University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have found that applying a stem cell-infused patch together with overexpression of a specific cell instruction molecule promoted cell migration to damaged cardiac tissue following heart attack …
Effect of heat treatment on the superconducting properties of Ag-doped Sr0.6K0.4Fe2As2 compounds
The Key Laboratory of Applied Superconductivity, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and China Research have collaborated to reveal the heat treatment effects on the superconducting properties of Ag-doped Sr0.6…