“This funding will allow my research group to significantly expand its research,” says Pal. The 33‑year‑old leads the Soft Robotics Mechanics Group at the Institute of Applied Mechanics. “We are ...

It‘s a change that often goes unnoticed: while tropical agricultural regions are delivering ever higher yields, soils may be changing at a faster pace than we think — and not for the better. From ...

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Emmy Noether is the most accomplished mathematician you probably never heard of. She helped Albert Einstein with the math required to formulate his Theory of Relativity. And then she came up with what ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was ...