Cotton yarn flexes its muscles
Researchers make smart materials from ordinary cotton using a twisting and plying technique
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Hydrogen flames spread by breaking into fractal-like patterns
Fire spreads like foraging fungi, experiment reveals
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If ‘Planet Nine’ is a primordial black hole, could we detect it with a fleet of tiny spacecraft?
Two proposals say a laser-driven swarm of sub-relativistic probes could do the trick
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New devices produce and detect twisted light
Novel detection method could substantially boost fibre-optic capacity and support advanced quantum communication protocols
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Public should be informed of uncertainties in model predictions of COVID-19 spread, say researchers
Probabilities could be conveyed as in weather forecasts
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Kondo effect induces giant negative thermal expansion
New work could help in designing and developing new alloys for use in aircraft and many other technology applications
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Optical surface tracker monitors patient position during brain radiotherapy
An optical surface tracking system can monitor patient position with submillimetre accuracy during single isocentre stereotactic radiosurgery of multiple brain metastases
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Rocket-like propulsion drives two-faced Janus spheres
Simulations reveal momentum transfer from chemical reactions
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Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers could reveal quark-gluon plasma
Hybrid neutron stars could contain quark-matter cores
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Bioimpedance analyser tracks blood redistribution in spinning cosmonauts
Bioimpedance analysis can monitor blood circulation changes during rotation on a short-radius centrifuge used to explore artificial gravity
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