How to get a robot collective to act like a smart materialRobots can now mimic material behaviors, self-assembling into forms with variable properties inspired by biological processes.
Notching up a win: fresh tools for activating NotchNew tools for activating Notch signalling could transform T-cell therapy development, potentially reversing previous limitations in laboratory mimicry.
Which came first, chicken or egg? Scientists crack age-old debateEggs existed more than a billion years ago before the first animals, challenging the traditional chicken-or-egg debate.
The making of the gut - Harvard GazetteEmbryonic development involves both genetics and physics, critical for understanding the formation of gut structures.Recent studies link gene-mediated geometries and physical forces in embryonic gut development.
Daily briefing: Amazing auroras are just a warm-up - more solar storms are comingThe upcoming solar maximum predicts more and larger solar storms, potentially disrupting satellite communications and power grids.
One year, three researchers, millions of cells: how a small team created the largest mouse-embryo atlas so farSingle-cell resolution tracking of 12.4 million mouse cells reveals development process.Technique enables creation of embryonic mouse cell atlas at lower cost and smaller team size.
Push and pull: how to measure the forces that sculpt embryosPhysical forces like tension and elasticity influence embryonic development before gene expression, guiding spatial patterning and tissue differentiation.