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Spin-based computing is emerging as a powerful approach for energy-efficient and high-performance solutions to future data processing hardware. Spintronic devices function by electrically manipulating the collective dynamics of the electron...
Manuel Gómez-González,Ernest Latorre,Marino Arroyo et al.
Manuel Gómez-González et al.
Living tissues are active multifunctional materials capable of generating, sensing, withstanding and responding to mechanical stress. These capabilities enable tissues to adopt complex shapes during development, to sustain those shapes duri...
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Thierry Emonet and Massimo Vergassola discuss what research shows about how animals perform the feat of navigating by smell.
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人体肿瘤组织的力学性质及其对癌症发展的意义
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The mechanical properties of cells and tissues help determine their architecture, composition and function. Alterations to these properties are associated with many diseases, including cancer. Tensional, compressive, adhesive, elastic and v...
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伸出援手
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, science is crucial to inform public policy. At the same time, mistrust of scientists and misinformation about scientific facts are rampant. Six scientists, actively involved in outreach, reflect on how...
Physics unlocked [0.03%]
物理学解密
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Giulia Pacchioni
During the COVID-19 lockdown, the flourishing of online seminars is opening up the new frontiers of physics to an unprecedented number of scientists. ...
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The brain evolved to produce behaviors that help an animal inhabit the natural world. During natural behaviors, the brain is engaged in many levels of activity from the detection of sensory inputs to decision-making to motor planning and ex...
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增殖活跃物质
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The fascinating patterns of collective motion created by autonomously driven particles have fuelled active-matter research for over two decades. So far, theoretical active-matter research has often focused on systems with a fixed number of ...
Achintya Rao
Achintya Rao
Most physics seminars are seen by dozens at most, but the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson reached hundreds of thousands of viewers, including non-physicists. What can this event tell us about opening up science to the ...
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Ling Xin
What can three ambitious physics experiments, currently under construction or in the start of their operational phase, show us about big science in China? ...