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- Materials Science
A light wrap?
Materials scientists have created fabrics that can both detect light and conduct electricity.
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Growing where they haven’t grown before
Researchers have found the right laboratory conditions for growing mouse precursor cells into sperm.
- Animals
Song Fights
Birds settle many of their disputes by some rough-and-tough singing bouts, and recording equipment now lets researchers pick a song fight, too.
- Physics
An Electron Runs through It
Now that physicists can observe electrons beneath the surface of microchips, they have uncovered electron-flow patterns that are both surprising and visually startling, as well as new details of electron behavior that may lead to faster electronics and quantum computing.
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Sit, Stay, Speak
If dogs could verbally comment on the scientific study of canine minds and how they really think, it might sound something like this.
- Math
Pennies in a Tray
Packing pennies in circular trays can lead to intriguing mathematical complexities.
- Humans
From the December 8, 1934, issue
Goose barnacles, the formation of elements, and the nature of cosmic rays.
- Health & Medicine
Exploring the Heart
Learn about the human heart at a fascinating online exhibit from the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. Discover the complexities of the heart’s development and structure. Follow the blood on its journey through the blood vessels. Check out how to keep your heart healthy and how to monitor your heart’s health. Look back at […]
- Chemistry
Recipe for Roman cosmetic revealed
British chemists have found that a white material inside a small tin canister excavated from a 2000-year-old Roman temple is an ancient cosmetic face cream.
- Humans
Letters from the December 11, 2004, issue of Science News
Mover Earth I would have thought that it is more likely that Earth’s hum creates the weather patterns (“Humming Along: Ocean waves may cause global seismic noise,” SN: 10/2/04, p. 212: Humming Along: Ocean waves may cause global seismic noise) than the other way around. Judy AngelGlasgow, Scotland Nuclear fallout “Hurrying a nuclear identity switch” […]
- Health & Medicine
Stemming Incontinence: Injected muscle cells restore urinary control
Stem cells removed from healthy muscle, grown in a lab, and inserted back into women with urinary incontinence can rebuild a muscle needed to control urine flow.
- Materials Science
Color Collective: Polymer self-assembles into light-emitting film
Stacks of sheets of light-emitting organic molecules that assemble into nanoscale structures could be more efficient and luminescent than existing display materials based on organic substances.
