For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

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In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

To explore how spin systems behave collectively, the researchers coupled a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

You can play a free demo of the cour-player co-op game Limbot right now, as you attempt to work a fully-functional bot with ...