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• Inside the Massive Effort to Sequence All of Europe’s Lepidoptera
  It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is leaking some warmth out of a brick oven. Gathered near it, around a big wooden table, some of Europe’s brightest young lepidopterists are doing what they do best: arguing in […]
• Spider-Inspired Microbots Could Replace Invasive Gut Diagnostics
  Deadly intestinal cancers are on the rise, and the best chance to beat them is with an early diagnosis. But current techniques used to inspect the digestive tract are highly invasive, scaring many patients away. Some researchers hope that soft, magnetically controlled robots the size of a vitamin capsule could replace these diagnostic methods in […]
• ‘Liquid Jets’ Could Be Key to Studying Cancer Cells
  Many of the most devastating illnesses are like black boxes to science. Most cancer deaths, for example, are caused by strain from the disease spreading throughout the body, fueled by the few tumor cells able to survive the travel to different body parts and form new growths. But biologists know relatively little about how these […]
• Ultrasound Makes Artificial Muscles Bubble to Life
  A soft gel filled with tiny bubbles might not look like much. But when pulsed with ultrasound waves, the material behaves like natural muscle: contracting, gripping, and lifting with surprising strength.The discovery, reported this week in Nature, introduces a new kind of artificial muscle—one powered not by wires, batteries, or pumps, but by sound.The acoustic […]
• Teaching AI to Predict What Cells Will Look Like Before Running Any Experiments
  This is a sponsored article brought to you by MBZUAI.If you’ve ever tried to guess how a cell will change shape after a drug or a gene edit, you know it’s part science, part art, and mostly expensive trial-and-error. Imaging thousands of conditions is slow; exploring millions is impossible.A new paper in Nature Communications proposes […]