deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Self-organizing Smart Materials that Mimic Swarm Behavior
An international team of researchers has successfully demonstrated the self-organizing pattern formation in active materials at microscale with computer simulations. [caption id="attachment_9420" align="alignnone" width="601"] Janus colloids with equal-and-opposite charges attract one another into connected, dynamic…
First CRISPR Trial in Humans to Begin in…
Scientists in China have the go-ahead to begin a small clinical trial next month using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing to treat lung-cancer patients, Nature reported. A team, led by oncologist Lu You, from Sichuan University’s West China Hospital in…
New Index Reveals Likelihood of Terrestrial or Aquatic…
Researchers at Nagoya University establish a new index based on rib strength measurement, which can use fossil records to predict whether extinct mammalian species lived exclusively in the water, were occasionally on land, or were…
CryoSat sets new standard for measuring sea levels
[caption id="attachment_9409" align="alignright" width="170"] Stavanger, Norway[/caption] Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA’s CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter. Sea level is a…