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In previous articles, we explored the realm of smart textiles and their distance from achieving the elusive invisibility cloak seen…
Crocodiles are some of the most fierce ambush-predators in the world. There are only 24 crocodilian species around the world…
DNA is nature’s original storage system. The molecule is made up of the chemical bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine—shortened…
Quantum computers need to measure small units of time very accuratelyFlashMovie/Getty Images There is a fundamental trade-off between making a…
The black streak is the newly discovered Giant Coma Stream, which is ten times as long as the Milky WayWilliam…
Enlarge / The protein structure of CAS, shown with nucleic acids bound. CRISPR—Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats—is the microbial…
Today, the sun is an essential source of gravity and energy. But one day, it will cause Earth’s demise. As…
Now’s the opportunity to help one of Mexico’s iconic ‘water monsters.’ Animal lovers around the world can now virtually adopt…
Cookbook authors have a few options. They could write a regionally specific cookbook or a mass-market one starring ingredients that…
IN 1977, physicist Frank Wilczek took a walk that would change the course of particle physics forever. “On that walk,…