IN THE LAB
Successfully Steering The Smallest Swimmers
By switching between two modes of swimming, these nanoparticles can move through water without getting knocked off course.
Supercomputing Software Speeds Up Brain Simulation
Computational neuroscientists have taken a divide and conquer approach to simulating the complexity of the brain.
How Plants Use Tails To Distinguish Friend And Foe
Foreign RNA lacks the tell-tale tail, marking it for destruction by the plant immune system.
Expanding The Mouse Genome
Scientists have genetically modified mice so that they are able to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in a controllable way.
Could Dark Matter Lie Beyond The Portal?
A dark axion portal could link the observable Universe to dark matter, which occupies 70 percent of the Universe but remains poorly understood.
Damsel In Distress: Insect Courtship Trapped In 100-Million-Year-Old Amber
To introduce themselves to females, prehistoric male damselflies waved their hindlegs.
New Tree-Climbing Crab Found In Hong Kong
In the eastern coast of Hong Kong, a previously unknown crab species that can climb trees is lurking.
Making Mulch Ado Of Ant Hills
Ants, which account for half of all insect biomass in the world, are beneficial to agriculture in more ways than one.
Female Chickens Need Male Hormones To Develop Ovaries
Male hormones turn out to be more important for developing ovaries than testes, at least in chickens.
