Dancing chromatophores
Music has the ability to get these pigmented cephalopod cells moving to the beat.
Colour-changing robot inspired by octopus
The cephalopod’s impressive camouflage led scientists to create a rubbery new robot.
What makes Paris look like Paris?
Visual data mining of Google identifies cities’ distinctive details.
Bioengineers developed an artificial jellyfish
Medusoid is the brainchild of professor Kevin Kit Parker and a team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Using silicone and muscle cells taken from a rat’s heart,…
Van Gogh could have painted this
Why is the corona hotter than the surface beneath it? Vincent van Gogh’s painting techniques may hold the answer.
Snow leopards found in den
Mother snow leopards and their cubs have been filmed in their den in Mongolia’s Tost Mountains for the first time.
The science behind Spiderman
The blockbuster The Amazing Spiderman has plenty of physics and quantitative biology references. To get things right, the filmmakers consulted with James Kakalios, a physics lecturer at the University of Minnesota who wrote the book…
Higgs boson: the quest continues
After years and years, the quest seems to be over”¦ or at least that is what we expect to hear next week, when CERN’s scientists unveil their results at the at the 36th International…
