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The hydrogel transforms from rubbery softness to rigid armor in seconds when heated—and just as quickly reverts to its flexible state when cooled.

New ‘Instant Armor’ Material Transforms From Soft to Rock-Hard in Seconds

Categories Technology
The model outlines three distinct mechanisms through which fungi actively contribute to processes of organic matter and nutrient transformations in soil

Hidden Champions: How Underground Fungal Networks Lock Away Carbon for Thousands of Years

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Figure 1. Fossilized nits of chewing lice, tightly affixed to feathers of an enantiornithine bird, entombed in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) Isolated barbs and regularly arranged louse nits attached to two barbs of the same type. (b) Enlargement of six louse nits (indicated with black arrows). (c) Enlargement of five louse nits (indicated with white arrows). (d) and (e), Enlargement of louse nits. (f) Details of a nit, showing the placement, attachment, and details of the chorion. (g) Enlargement of two louse nits, showing the attachments to ramus. (h) Ecological reconstruction of Cretaceous chewing lice of an enantiornithine bird. (a–c) Under normal reflected light. (d–f) Under confocal laser scanning microscopy. (g) Under X-ray micro-computed tomography. Abbreviations: ch, chorion; eg, egg; ra, ramus.

Ancient Amber Reveals 99-Million-Year-Old Evidence of Bird Parasites

Categories Life & Non-humans
This photograph of the Jovian moon Europa was taken in June 1997 at a range of 776,700 miles by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Slightly smaller than Earth's moon, Europa has a very smooth surface and the solid ice crust has the appearance of a cracked eggshell. The interior has a global ocean with more water than found on Earth.

Scientists Design Space Submarines to Hunt for Alien Life in Europa’s Ocean

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space
Immune States: Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Modern Medicine for a Holistic View of Immunity

New ‘Immune State’ Theory Blends Ancient Wisdom with Modern Medicine

Categories Health
The ancestral sweet receptor of all extant bats (Node C) was functionally sensitive to natural sugars, with a lower level of sugar sensitivity than modern pteropodid bats (Node A), suggesting that common ancestors of bats were omnivorous.

Common ancestors of bats were omnivorous suggested by resurrection of ancestral sweet receptors

Categories Life & Non-humans

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