How do you like your rice? Sticky, fluffy, brown, or white? These qualities, in addition to grain length, width, appearance, and other traits, are hugely important predictors of rice sales and consumption worldwide. And region ...
Jellyfish have voracious appetites, and they aren't considered the most selective eaters. Almost anything that gets stuck to their tentacles winds up in the gelatinous sack that they use to digest their food.
They look like jellyfish but they aren't. They seem inoffensive but are efficient predators鈥攐ccasionally, they even eat fish. They are gelatinous and very delicate鈥攁nd extremely rarely do they fossilize!
In the fight against diseases like ALS, USC Viterbi biomedical engineering researchers have created a powerful lab model to better see how our muscles and neurons connect.
The eyes have it. They are constantly on the move when viewing scenes in augmented reality (AR).
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that food science principles have helped them determine how unusual droplets within cells stay organized and avoid dissolving into the rest of the cell's gelatinous interior.
Hydrogels are everywhere. They are water-loving polymers that can absorb and retain water, and can be found in such everyday consumer products such as soft contact lenses, disposable diapers, certain foods, and even in agricultural ...
Labs can easily make their own protein ladders鈥攎olecular rulers for estimating the sizes of proteins鈥攆or less than a penny per experiment using the newly developed, license-free "Penn State Protein Ladder system." A ...
Ctenophores, also known as comb jellies, are a group of over 200 living species of invertebrate animals with a transparent gelatinous body superficially resembling that of a jellyfish. There is much interest in ctenophore ...
Imperial College London researchers have created 3D building blocks that can heal themselves in response to damage.
