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A mechanical engineer explains why you need to go with the flow. The TSA pronouncement that peanut butter is a liquid is scientifically sound.
Counterintuitively, cells move faster in thicker fluids. New research on breast cancer cells explains why, and reveals the role that fluid viscosity plays in metastasis.
Warm-bloodedness is the key to what makes mammals what they are today. That’s why working out when it emerged in mammal ancestors matters.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural History Museum
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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Lecturer, University of Chicago
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University Professor, Bergles Professor of Thermal Science, and Director of the Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education, Iowa State University
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Physics & Biophysics, Associate Provost for Engaged Scholarship, University of San Diego