The Untold Story of Animating the 'Star Wars' Prequels Before the Technology Even Existed

Although the Star Wars prequels sparked plenty of debate among fans, their influence on modern filmmaking is undeniable. The ...
Tech Xplore

Graphics advances preserve stretched textures and cut shape-computation costs tenfold

Researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) presented two papers at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. One ...
techxplore

Extrusion retrofit system designed to help manufacturers get into ShAPE

A new invention from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) could soon help manufacturers more easily adopt the lab's patented Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion ...
TechCrunch

From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding.
C&EN

Multifunctional Self-Assembled Block Copolymer/Iron Oxide Nanocomposite Hydrogels Formed from Wormlike Micelles

Department of Materials, School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. Henry Royce Institute, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 ...
Europe PMC

Conoid extrusion serves as gatekeeper for entry of glideosome components into the pellicular space to control motility and invasion in Apicomplexa

Members of the Apicomplexa are defined by apical cytoskeletal structures and secretory or-ganelles, tailored for motility and invasion. Gliding is powered by actomyosin-dependent rearward ...
Europe PMC

A unique form of collective epithelial migration is crucial for tissue fusion in the secondary palate and can overcome loss of epithelial apoptosis.

Tissue fusion frequently requires the removal of an epithelium that intervenes distinct primordia to form one continuous structure. In the mammalian secondary palate, a midline epithelial seam (MES) ...
Frontiers

Nanomedicine Ex Machina: Between Model-Informed Development and Artificial Intelligence

Today, a growing number of computational aids and simulations are shaping model-informed drug development. Artificial intelligence, a family of self-learning algorithms, is only the latest emerging ...