Science

Making mechanical skin

[ad_1] Liquid metal composites allow for soft, stretchable circuits that are electrically conductive, mechanically self-healing and highly adaptable. Credit: Soft Machines Lab, Carnegie Mellon University Soft, elastic materials that are also electrically conductive are hard to find. It is even more difficult to create a circuit that resists damage, going …

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Peyssonnelid algal crusts are shallow, threatening coral reefs

[ad_1] Written by AZoCleantechDecember 1, 2020 All over the world, coral health has been threatened by human activity. A new danger to algae is exploiting the already dangerous coral conditions in the Caribbean and making it more difficult for coral reef ecosystems to thrive. Peyssonnelid algal crusts spreading over a …

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Validated theory that neutrinos shape the universe

[ad_1] The effect that nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos have on the formation of galaxies has long been a cosmological mystery, one that physicists have tried to measure since they discovered the particles in 1956. But an international research team that includes the Kavli Institute for the Physics and …

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