Study determines when and how pterosaurs evolved from tiny tree climbers to towering land titans
Short-tailed pterosaurs, like this Balaenognathus, were adapted to a life on the ground. This strange creature had nearly 500 needle-like ...
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Protein study reveals how tiny shrew achieves resting heart rate of 1,020 beats per minute
The little American shrew, which has an incredibly high resting heart rate. Credit: Joe Pontecorvo The shrew's resting heart rate ...
Research team succeeds in switching tiny light sources ultra-rapidly
A strong light pulse in the terahertz range separates the charged light trions into individual electrons and neutral excitons. Credit: ...
Researchers Create Tiny Nuclear-Powered Battery Thousands of Times More Efficient Than Its Predecessors
Two different architectures of radiophotovoltaic batteries. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07933-9 A team of physicists and engineers affiliated with several ...
Several ways to evolve a tiny knee bone could have helped humans walk upright
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The evolution of primate knee bones could have implications for how humans evolved to walk upright, ...
New mass spectrometry technology could transform analysis of tiny samples
Comparison of a conventional electrospray ion source with a nanopore ion source. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51455-x Mass spectrometry ...
Tiny new lasers fill a long-standing gap in the rainbow of visible light colors, opening the way to new applications
Series of visible light colors generated by a microring resonator. Credit: S. Kelley/NIST Making green lasers isn't easy. Scientists have ...
Engineers design tiny batteries to power cell-sized robots
The zinc-air battery is 0.1 millimeter long and 0.02 millimeter thick. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology A tiny battery designed ...
A tiny network of microparticles that is both strong and flexible
Flexible colloidal square networks. (a) A schematic overview of the binding mechanism. (b) A schematic example of a floppy mode ...
Tiny crustaceans found feeding on live jellyfish during harsh Arctic night
Scavenger amphipods from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Credit: C. Havermans In the darkness and cold of the polar night which lasts for ...
