NATURE MAGAZINE (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Skin Deep’ – How the crocodile’s head got its scales…
This digital-memory device keeps its cool even at 600 °C
A battery-like technology uses a metal called tantalum to create an equivalent of digital 0s and 1s.
Fancy birds decorate nests with a natural pattern: snakeskin
The use of shed skins might help to ward off predators, experiments suggest.
A blood test detects aged cells
Proteins could serve as biomarkers for senescent cells, which have stopped dividing but have not yet died.
That Christmas jumper is a marvel of complicated physics
Models and experiments demonstrate what happens when a knitted fabric is deformed.