Scutoid cells discovered in soap bubbles
Simple experiment could provide insights into how biological tissues form
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How to make square-shaped droplets
Technique could be used to create tuneable liquid lenses
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Geckos sprint on water using surface tension and body motion
Study could lead to better search-and-rescue robots
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Elastic foam uses machine learning to detect how its shape changes
Technology could be used in robots that are more responsive to their environment
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Biophysicists strain to reveal why wombats have cube-shaped poo
Unique elastic properties of lower intestine create sharp-cornered faeces
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New printer can use honey or liquid metal as ink
Acoustic technique allows droplets of highly viscous fluids to be formed on demand
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Brownian motion melts a quasicrystal of tiny Penrose tiles
New lithographic fabrication technique could create new colloidal materials
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Barnacles are no match for mushroom-shaped microstructures
Non-wetting, silicone-based coating stops marine organisms from sticking to surfaces
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Print me an organ
As innovations in 3D bioprinting begin to impact the commercial and clinical worlds, Margaret Harris explains how these advances could prove significant
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Liquid mysteries
John Proctor explains how liquids still puzzle scientists, despite being one of the three basic states of matter
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