Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

Thayer contended that even brilliantly plumaged birds like the peacock can blend into, and thus be camouflaged by, their habitats. To illustrate his theory, he and his young assistant Richard Meryman ...

Artificial muscles are flexible actuators with capabilities similar to, or even beyond, natural muscles. They have been widely used in many applications as alternatives to more traditional rigid ...

Heterogeneity in composite materials is often encountered in the form of a non-uniform distribution of microstructural features, such as particles, pores, chemical species or living cells, throughout ...

The remarkable properties of biological structural materials can often be attributed to the composite arrangement of their constituents. This paper focuses on the high-aspect-ratio, load-bearing, ...

Juramaia sinensis gen. et sp. nov. Etymology. Jura, Jurassic; maia, mother, in reference to placental affinities; sinensis, of China. The binomial refers to ‘Jurassic mother from China’. Holotype.