What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...
Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking ...
Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...
Roderick (Improv Quilting) presents an insightful primer on how to utilize visual design elements when quilting. She defines value as “the lightness or darkness of a color in relation to other colors” ...
There is currently an influx of biological products coming to the market promising improvements to soil health and yield, but can these claims be sustained in practice? Creating a biologically dynamic ...
BMarko Structures and Farpoint Development have announced a 10-year lease for a new manufacturing facility in Williamston. The new facility will create 225 full-time jobs and focus on producing ...
AI has changed the way searching happens—and that, in turn, has changed how discovery works. With tools like Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Gemini, the way they crawl the web is completely different from ...
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...
James Watson, a Nobel laureate and former director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), died Nov. 6 at the age of 97. Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Francis ...
A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...