Every time you flex your bicep or stretch your calf muscle, you put your cells under stress. Every move we make throughout the day causes our cells to stretch and deform. But this cellular deformation can be dangerous, and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2020
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One way to change the properties of a material is to stretch it just a wee bit, so its atoms are farther apart but the bonds between them don't break. This extra distance affects the behavior of electrons, which determine ...
General Physics
Apr 2, 2020
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Researchers at Tampere University of Technology and Aalto University taught machine learning algorithms to predict how materials stretch. This new application of machine learning opens new opportunities in physics and possible ...
General Physics
Dec 18, 2018
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(Phys.org) —In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 19, 2013
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In events that could exacerbate sea level rise over the coming decades, stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ocean, according to new iceberg ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2013
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Scientists from Australia and the United States bring new insights to our understanding of the three-dimensional structure of the genome, one of the biggest challenges currently facing the fields of genomics and genetics. ...
Biotechnology
Jun 23, 2013
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Unlike less versatile muscle or nerve cells, embryonic stem cells are by definition equipped to assume any cellular role. Scientists call this flexibility "pluripotency," meaning that as an organism develops, stem cells must ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 27, 2012
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Transcription factor proteins essentially act as genetic on/off switches, binding specific stretches of DNA that enable them to stimulate or repress the activity of neighboring genes. However, it remains a challenge to authoritatively ...
Biochemistry
Aug 15, 2012
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Something strange is about to happen to the shadows beneath your feet.
Space Exploration
May 16, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UrtheCast, a Canadian-based company, has announced a new project with a global scale, literally. The system will allow those of us who have not actually been in to space to see the earth from space. A set ...
