Robotics World’s first ciliary microrobots could change the way we take medicine September 17, 2016 The new type of highly maneuverable microrobot uses a propulsion system inspired by the ciliated ...

Semiconductors aren’t the only silicon technology racing to outpace Moore’s Law. Researchers from Cornell University unveiled an entire robot that is teensy enough to fit most anywhere in the human ...

Considered as an obsolete theory for many years, the transmission of acquired traits has returned to the forefront of debate thanks to the development of epigenetic research. In this context, a team ...

The paramecium is an amazing organism. It survives and thrives using just one basic principle: If things are getting better, keep swimming in that direction, and if not, change course. If the water’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Experiments on Paramecium multimicronucleatum indicate that mating types occur, although most of the stocks examined exhibit conjugation among ...

Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science journal. Published 51 times a year, Science is renowned for its ...

THE suggestion made by Gunn and Walshe 1, that the avoiding reaction of Paramecium fits into the scheme of klino–kinesis, receives some support from the behaviour of the animal in a uniform high ...

A mesmerising time-lapse clip that swept across X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, purporting to depict the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS hurtling through space, has been definitively exposed as a ...

This week’s tip is adapted from a commencement speech I gave recently at the University of Pennsylvania. You can watch the entire speech here. The paramecium is an amazing organism. It survives and ...