Lamb’s Ear, a plant you can pet
On a recent trip to the San Francisco Botanical Garden, I stumbled on the niftiest plant ever. It’s called Stachys byzantina or “Lamb’s Ear”, named for the softness of it’s leaves. And WOW are they soft.
On a recent trip to the San Francisco Botanical Garden, I stumbled on the niftiest plant ever. It’s called Stachys byzantina or “Lamb’s Ear”, named for the softness of it’s leaves. And WOW are they soft.
This exciting new foam was produced by Argonne National Laboratory as a method to help combat oil spills.
Lateral gene transfer–grabbing genes from other individuals or even other species–plays a big role in evolution for bacteria and other single-celled organisms (prokaryotes). But the last few years have seen a string of studies supporting the idea that this mechanism might be more important than we thought for animals.
This one’s all about location, location, location.
Bulk FeSe has a superconducting transition of about 8 K, low by even iron-based superconductor standards. So you can imagine the surprise of researchers at the discovery of ˜100 K superconductivity in single layer FeSe on SrTiO3 (STO).
I’m a sucker for beautiful color.
One of my daydreams during pregnancy was someday doing weekend science activities with my child to help foster their creativity.
Materials design–where the material constituents and synthesis method are determined based on the desired functionality of the final product–remains one of the Holy Grails of material science. A new software tool developed primarily at Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to tackle the problem through a combination of data mining, crowd sourcing, and machine learning.
If a gravitational wave contracts and expands space, shouldn’t the light wavelength be affected in the same way as the interferometer arm distance? If so, how is the wave detected at all?