Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot ...
Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide, due to their light weight, high ...
Proteins need to fold into specific shapes to perform their functions in cells, but they occasionally misfold, which can ...
"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...
Tommaso Grossi and colleagues propose NeuberNet, a multi-task manifold decoder that maps low-fidelity elastic displacement fields to high-resolution stress-strain in regions with sharp notches. This ...
Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene targeting, nuclear transplantation, transfection of synthetic ...
Science writer David Berreby shares his personal journey with griefbots and discusses how they can offer unexpected comfort, insight and connection in the wake of loss.