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Demystifying the “Rainbow Mountains”
The Zhangye Danxia mountains in China are made up of fossilized soil layers (paleosols), preserving over 100 million…
Imaging the Atom
Advances in electron microscopy now allow us to see individual atoms, a feat once thought impossible 30 years…
Octopuses Are Assembling Fish “Armies”
Despite being solitary creatures, octopuses like “Dave” collaborate with fish to hunt more efficiently. The fish locate prey,…
How AI Is Helping Save Medicine
DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 solved a decades-old challenge by predicting the 3D structures of over 200 million proteins, drastically…
Metal expands when heated. What does that mean for railroads?
Hans Goldschmidt discovered that metal oxides, such as rust, react with aluminum powder to produce pure liquid metal,…
The Science of Glue
Cyanoacrylate, the main ingredient in super glue, forms long polymer chains when exposed to moisture, allowing it to…
What’s an “Atomic Trampoline?”
A unique metallic glass called amorphous metal made a simple-looking disk astonishingly bouncy, leading NileRed to investigate its…
Creating Robots the Size of Insects
Scientists are developing insect-sized robots capable of flying, swimming, and jumping on water, mimicking natural mechanisms to navigate…
LLMs, Explained
Large language models predict the next word in a sequence by analyzing vast amounts of text data and…
PCR Was Invented Under the Strangest Circumstances
Kary Mullis’ invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) stemmed from a mix of creative thinking and automation,…