A crosshatch pattern of wires created by self-assembling liquid metal particlesJulia Chang / North Carolina State University Self-assembling electronics made from liquid metal particles could provide a cheaper way of manufacturing computer chips, simply by harnessing the basic physics of...
Plastic food packaging can expose people to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA)Shutterstock/Trong Nguyen Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of heart disease worldwide may be linked to chemicals in common plastic products, suggesting that more stringent...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its...
The first time I met Philip Arnoult was in a conference room at Towson University, during the first few weeks of my MFA in theatre there in 2009. He was doing his annual lecture about the Center for International Theatre...
Eerie events often have mundane explanationsLuciano De Polo Stokkete/Alamy I had a strange experience in a cafe recently. When paying for coffee, I asked to use the toilet. After I tapped my PIN into the card reader, the barista handed...
A fluffy longhorn beetleJames Tweed On a camping trip in Queensland, Australia, insect researcher James Tweed snapped a shot of what may be the world’s fluffiest beetle (Excastra albopilosa). Its hairs are especially thick around the top half of its...
Saturn and its rings, as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in 2016NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously thought and may have formed around the same time as the planet, according to a modelling...
Anthony Fauci became a household name during the COVID pandemic. But the genially stubborn infectious disease doctor, who spent decades helming one the U.S. government’s most important medical research institutes, had made his mark well before that.Born and raised in...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to the second episode of our Friday Fascination miniseries “The New Conservationists.” Today we’re heading into the field, under the sea and to the savanna, with researchers...
Beer is best served cold, and it turns out that math can help with that. Cláudio de Castro Pellegrini of the Federal University of São João del-Rei in Brazil recently set out to formulate an equation to determine the optimal...
