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  • Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand

    Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand

    The new materials are inspired by the colour-changing, shape-shifting properties of octopus skin. Credit: Ethan Daniels/Alamy

    Researchers have created the first materials that can change not just their colour, but also their surface texture on…

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  • Systematic analyses of lipid mobilization by human lipid transfer proteins

    Lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) maintain the specialized lipid compositions of organellar membranes1,2. In humans, many LTPs are implicated in diseases3, but for the majority, the cargo and auxiliary lipids facilitating transfer remain unknown. We…

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  • A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed

    A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed

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  • Charting The Microbial Map Inside The International Space Station

    Charting The Microbial Map Inside The International Space Station

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  • A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe

    A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe

  • Csiki-Sava, Z., Buffetaut, E., Ősi, A., Pereda-Suberbiola, X. & Brusatte, S. L. Island life in the Cretaceous — faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago….

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  • European Ceratopsian Dinosaurs Were Surprisingly Diverse In The Late Cretaceous

    European Ceratopsian Dinosaurs Were Surprisingly Diverse In The Late Cretaceous

    Contrary to previous suspicions, Europe probably had many species of ceratopsian dinosaurs, a clade of large herbivores whose most famous member is Triceratops. Ceratopsian fossils are common across North America and Asia, but their relative…

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  • Each New Year, Antarctic Scientists Move The Marker Of The Geographic South Pole

    Each New Year, Antarctic Scientists Move The Marker Of The Geographic South Pole

    New Year’s celebrations are a little bit different in Antarctica. Under the relentless summer daylight and searing cold, the ragtag crew of souls who have found themselves at the planet’s southernmost point take part in an unusual but important…

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  • Astrobites at AAS 247: Day 2

    Astrobites at AAS 247: Day 2

    X-ray and optical image of Kepler’s supernova remnant. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Pan-STARRS

    Welcome to the winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Phoenix, AZ! Astrobites is attending the conference as…

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  • SKA-Mid telescope in South Africa achieves first fringes milestone-Xinhua

    CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) announced on Wednesday that the growing SKA-Mid telescope array in South Africa has achieved “first fringes” using two of its dishes, which demonstrates its operation…

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