EPFL researchers target the next generation of soft actuators and robots with elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects with locally changing mechanical properties, eliminating the need for cumbersome mechanical joints.

https://thescience.dev/an-ink-for-3d-printing-flexible-devices-without-mechanical-joints/

Luminescence, or the emission of photons by a substance exposed to light, has been known to occur in semiconductor materials like silicon for hundreds of years.

https://thescience.dev/energy-scientists-unravel-the-mystery-of-golds-glow/

New research from the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich illustrates a critical barrier to the natural regeneration of tropical forests.

https://thescience.dev/tropical-forests-cant-recover-naturally-without-fruit-eating-birds/

Quantum systems in physics can also have a specific apple or doughnut topology, which manifests itself in the energy states and motion of particles.

https://thescience.dev/surprising-reversal-in-quantum-systems/

Io, Europa, and Ganymede are in an orbital configuration known as a Laplace resonance: For every orbit of Ganymede , Europa completes exactly two orbits, and Io completes exactly four. 

https://thescience.dev/jupiters-moon-io-has-been-volcanically-active-for-billions-of-years/

Unlike the Earth, the Moon is not tectonically active. Lunar quakes have different origins: Some are caused by day-to-night thermal differences as the surface varies in temperature.

https://thescience.dev/a-new-type-of-seismic-sensor-to-detect-moonquakes/

https://thescience.dev/quantum-sensors-to-image-meissner-effect-in-hydride-supercondutors/

Hydrogen (like many of us) acts weird under pressure. Theory predicts that when crushed by the weight of more than a million times the Earth’s atmosphere, this light, abundant, normally gaseous element first becomes a metal, and even more strangely, a superconductor – a material that conducts electricity with no resistance.

Scientists at Princeton University have made a groundbreaking discovery by visualizing a Wigner crystal for the first time.

https://thescience.dev/quantum-crystal-of-frozen-electrons-visualized/

Individuals who often find themselves searching for snacks shortly after a substantial meal may be experiencing the effects of hyperactive neurons responsible for food-seeking behavior rather than an increased appetite.

https://thescience.dev/craving-snacks-after-a-meal-it-might-be-food-seeking-neurons-not-an-overactive-appetite/

The recent study presents an unprecedented glimpse into the complex dynamics surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A star at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

https://thescience.dev/strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-at-the-edge-of-the-milky-ways-central-black-hole/