Self-healing materials that can repair cracks and other damage automatically have the subject of research for decades. Now a team of scientists at Rice University have come up with a new twist. It's a ...

A home building resurgence is underway in Southern California, especially of luxury homes. But limited space will make construction of new properties harder to come by, especially in desirable suburbs ...

Some of the most fundamental questions in evolution remain unanswered, such as when and how extremely diverse groups of animals - for example reptiles - first evolved. For 75 years, adaptive ...

What if a complex material could reshape itself in response to a simple chemical signal? A team of physicists from the University of Vienna and the University of Edinburgh has shown that even small ...

Microsoft Research has demonstrated a new VR controller in the form of the X-Rings which uses an adaptive shape design using four motor-driven expandable rings with capacitive sensors to simulate ...

The successful implementation of Bayesian shrinkage analysis of high-dimensional regression models, as often encountered in quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, is contingent upon the choice of ...

Assortative mating is critical for reproductive isolation during speciation; however, the mechanisms underlying mating preferences are often unknown. Assortative mating can be mediated through ...