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Buildings, bridges and offshore infrastructure might one day stand on pilings modeled on snakeskin, based on research at the University of California, Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. With surfaces designed to move through soil more easily in one direction than the other, snakeskin pilings would be easier to drive into soil but difficult to pull out.
Apr. 6, 2021 , 7:01 PM If you want your work to be highly cited, here’s one simple tip that might help: Steer clear of discipline-specific jargon in the title and abstract. That’s the conclusion of a new study of roughly 20,000 published papers about cave science, a multidisciplinary field that includes researchers who study the biology, geology, paleontology, and anthropology of caves. The most highly cited papers didn’t use any terms specific to cave science in the title and kept jargon to less than 2% of the text in the abstract; jargon-heavy papers were cited far less often. “I wa...
Firefighters aren’t short on heroics. They’ll save people. They’ll save cats. They’ll also save squirrels. On Tuesday, the crew of Austin Fire Department Engine 38 responded to a 911 call reporting that a squirrel had gotten its head stuck in the knothole of a tree and had the lower half of its body hanging out, fire officials said. The caller didn’t know how long the squirrel had been there. Crews took video of Austin firefighters Steven Slaughter and Shane Burton working to free the squirrel. After two minutes, the rodent was dislodged and on its way. “We assume none the worse ...