(PhysOrg.com) -- Takuya Umedachi has been working for several years to build a robot that can replicate the simple actions of the common slime mold, an organism that can move towards something it ...

Rhythmic patterns and precise motions—these are key elements of proper swimming. Olympians demonstrate repeated patterns of breathing, with synchronized head, leg and arm movements, enthralling ...

For anyone interested in going into engineering, I can offer a warning: prepare to get your butt handed to you repeatedly by nature. Many of the processes at the forefront of engineering technology ...

Patient-reported quality of life in men with TURP undergoing proton therapy for prostate cancer.

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project Cancer cells, like healthy cells, need oxygen and nutrients to survive and grow. The angiogenic factors are signals sent by cancer cells to ...

Rhythmic patterns and precise motions are key elements of proper swimming, and comparable demonstrations of this pattern repetition and power usage can be seen in a microscopic swimmer -- the amoeboid ...

The total amount of money invested in the project. The total cost includes EU contribution as well as other project costs not covered by EU funding. It is expressed in euros. Amount of money, by way ...

Research conducted with a simple slime mold shows that it can grow complex networks similar to the Tokyo rail system. The slime produced a cheaper network with similar throughput capability, although ...