Pair one host odor with the jolt of a failed swat, and a mosquito may choose another scent for days.

A cellulose growing mat became both root support and a low-power electrode for young barley.

The printer leaves magnetism out until the delicate gel is finished, then grows iron oxide inside selected microscopic parts.

Clusters inside a soft polymer rearrange their electrical surroundings so an antenna keeps its frequency while the material stretches.

Less than one percent oil can gather at a droplet’s rim and keep the whole impact from springing away.

Repeating earthquakes let researchers compare the same ray path through Earth years apart and hear a deep layer slip out of step.

Hot African fossil beds preserved a molecular record in the hardest tissue a vertebrate makes.

A block of balsa became an electronic switch after its empty cellulose channels were filled with conductive polymer.

Before a crow made the first sound, its hesitation already hinted at how many calls it intended to produce.

A laser checks each imperfect layer, and the printer compensates on the next pass instead of scraping the soft polymers flat.