For the first time, a computer simulation — so detailed it took a full year to run — shows how spicules form, helping scientists understand how spicules can break free …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 22, 2017
Flexible wearable electronics use body heat for energy
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In a proof-of-concept study, engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as …read more Source:: Science
Quantum thermometer or optical refrigerator?
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In an arranged marriage of optics and mechanics, physicists have created microscopic structural beams that have a variety of powerful uses when light strikes them. …read more Source:: Science
How eggs got their shapes
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The evolution of the amniotic egg — complete with membrane and shell — was key to vertebrates leaving the oceans and colonizing the land and air but how bird eggs …read more Source:: Science
How bacterial organelles assemble
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Scientists are providing the clearest view yet of an intact bacterial microcompartment, revealing at atomic-level resolution the structure and assembly of the organelle’s protein shell. This work could benefit research …read more Source:: Science