Magnetic composite with stiffness control allows programmable 3D shape shifting for use in soft robots, tactile interfaces, and reconfigurable displays.

These inclusions typically hosted some liquid and a gas bubble, but in several cases it was possible to see a solid third phase. Usually the associated crystal had very low ... to Schwarz and Pardieu ...

In this study, the research team used a liquid-phase precursor method to synthesize high-purity WC-xTaC and WB₂ ceramic powders. By introducing tantalum carbide (TaC) as a grain growth inhibitor ...

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The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease. The genetic bases of the seven pairs of contrasting ...

Apr. 24, 2025 — A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in ...

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan ...