Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: Shock-absorber proteins, US–Australian particle physics and superfluid mixtures
Researchers use models of soft solids to assess damage caused by craniectomies
Read article: Simulating inner strain that causes brains to bulge
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: Dyson award for ‘Einstein’s fridge’, Australian Centres of Excellence, mapping our galaxy’s age
Research from a cinema in Germany shows how the breath of a crowd can reflect how they’re feeling, as Stephen Ornes reports
Read article: Every breath we take
Electrosensory capability helps insects to find flowers, say researchers
Read article: Bumble-bees use their fuzz to detect electric fields
Discovery could help to explain how some fish detect tiny electric fields
Read article: Protons swim with ease through shark jelly
Desert-dwelling ant can survive temperatures of more than 50 °C because body hairs reflect light and stop them from overheating
Read article: ‘Cool’ Saharan ants’ silver hairs cause total internal reflection
Evolution may have optimized fluctuations in cryptochrome proteins, say scientists
Read article: Birds measure magnetic fields using long-lived quantum coherence
Micro-organisms focus light much like the human eye
Read article: Bacteria act as tiny lenses to move towards light
Model explains how groups of cells move towards chemicals even when single cells do not
Read article: Simple interactions cause micro-organisms to follow the crowd
