Mastodawn

Hydrochromism is a reversible form of dynamic camouflage where the optical properties of an organism change in response to environmental moisture. In certain arboreal snails, this allows their patterned shells to darken uniformly in the rain, blending seamlessly with wet tree bark.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Malacology #Biophysics #MaterialsScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/ebio06302601.html

Hydrochromic Camouflage in Arboreal Snails

Tree snails use structural pores and hydrochromism to dynamically camouflage in rain, inspiring the design of zero-energy smart materials.

earthling 1d ago

“No one really understands water. It’s embarrassing to admit it, but the stuff that covers two-thirds of our planet is still a mystery. Worse, the more we look, the more the problems accumulate: new techniques probing deeper into the molecular architecture of liquid water are throwing up more puzzles.” (Ball 2008)

From:
Ions in Water and Biophysical Implications: From Chaos to Cosmos

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#water
#biophysics
#photography
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MegatronicThronBanks 4d ago

#lev #longevity #sens #biophysics #organs

In a First, a Scientist Regrew a Human Lung in a Bioreactor. Is This the Dawn of Rebuilding Humans Piece by Piece?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71746463/regrowing-human-lung-bioreactor/

In a First, a Scientist Regrew a Human Lung in a Bioreactor. Is This the Dawn of Rebuilding Humans Piece by Piece?

It took a broke medical student, a $20 fish tank, and a radical idea that could one day turn failed organs into brand-new replacements.

Popular Mechanics

Scientific Frontline 4d ago

Spirostomum ambiguum is a giant aquatic ciliate capable of contracting to a quarter of its body length in less than five milliseconds, moving hundreds of times faster than a human blink.
#Biophysics #Biochemistry #CellBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/biph06262601.html

Ultrafast Contractions in Spirostomum

Discover how the giant ciliate Spirostomum ambiguum uses a calcium-activated protein fishnet for ultrafast, ATP-independent contractions.

LeidenForce 5d ago

Heat behaves differently inside living cells than in simple fluid-filled systems.

The study suggests that cellular organization and biomolecules can reshape heat transport, challenging conventional fluid-dynamics predictions.

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-05-cells-ways-standard-fluid-physics.html

#HeatTransfer #Biophysics #SoftMatter #CellBiology #Physics

Cells trap heat in ways standard fluid physics cannot explain, study finds

Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. Researchers have used two techniques—high-speed temperature mapping and artificial heating—to observe how heat dissipates from living cells and similar-sized artificial, fluid-filled sacs (liposomes). While heat dispersed quickly from the artificial liposomes as expected, cells cooled significantly more slowly due to other biomolecules within the cell.

Phys.org

Mainz University Jun 23

ERC Advanced Grants for two researchers of #MainzUniversity: Millions in EU funding for biophysicist Edward Lemke and chemist Andreas Walther 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/erc-advanced-grants-for-two-researchers-of-mainz-university/

#ERCAdG #ERCAdvancedGrant #EuropeanResearchCouncil #biophysics #biomaterials #IMBMainz #ERC

Scientific Frontline Jun 22

SmartTrap is an open-source artificial intelligence platform that fully automates optical tweezers, enabling the autonomous manipulation and measurement of microscopic biological components, such as individual DNA molecules and living cells.
#Biophysics #ArtificialIntelligence #MolecularBiology #Nanotechnology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/biph06222601.html

AI Optical Tweezers: Automating Microscopic Science

Discover how the SmartTrap AI platform automates optical tweezers, speeding up complex biophysical analyses of DNA and cells by up to 100 times.

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Douglas J Chapman Jun 20

#OpenScience #FluidDynamics #Biophysics #Thermodynamics #AcousticStreaming #WaveDynamics #OpenSourceHardware #MechanicalEngineering #PlasmaPhysics #SovereignGrantFoundation #aerosols #EnvironmentalEngineering #Aerospace #Geophysics #lunarBase #mars2020

Douglas J Chapman Jun 20

The Sovereign Master Release is live. We have open-sourced the CC BY 4.0 blueprints for the AP-10C & AP-12C Modular Inhalation and Research Devices.

Built for deterministic environmental modulation, this 12-chamber system utilizes 1.2 MHz acoustic streaming and solid-state thermodynamic phasing to force chaotic matter into phase-locked, frictionless continuous waveforms—without a single mechanical impeller touching the fluid stream.

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KM6HQ
#Biophysics #physics

Jean-Philip Piquemal Jun 19

I am deeply honored & thrilled to have been elected Vice President (& future 2028 President) of the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 #ISQPB

https://isqbp.org/

I look forward to serving this vibrant community of computational scientists #compchem #compbio #machinelearning #biophysics