A two-layer, fully biocompatible artificial muscle made of protein strands of elastin is capable of contracting, expending chemical energy, and taking its original shape again. Scientists assembled artificial muscle from natural proteins Scientists at the University of Freiburg in Germany…
Scientists from the United States have concluded that people who are not planning to quit smoking are more likely to do so if they switch to vaping. The benefits and harms of vaping — a controversial topic, which broke a…
The U.S. military found defects in the software of the F-35 Block 4 fighters. As Bloomberg writes, they concern the processes of weapons application, communication, navigation, cybersecurity and target setting. But despite this, Block 4 is installed on the aircraft.…
A team of scientists from Skoltech – graduate student Egor Nuzhin, associate professor Maksim Panov, and professor Nikolai Brilliantov – used artificial intelligence methods to explain a mysterious behavior characteristic of a number of animals – circling. AI has long…
Scientists from London conducted a study disproving the idea that smoking promotes socialization. In a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health Europe, researchers used data from a 12-year follow-up of British smokers and non-smokers over the age of 50…
Scientists have chosen two “targets” for immune system at once – env protein, which forms the basis of HIV envelope, and gag protein, which plays the role of internal framework of virus particles American molecular biologists have developed an experimental…