Liquid marbles are microliter-sized non-wetting droplets. Their versatility makes them an attractive digital microfluidics platform. This paper provides state-of-the-art discoveries in the physics of liquid and their applications.

Marbles containing high-pressure mineral assemblage was found from the Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic belt in the Nahavand area in western Iran.  The high-pressure marbles occur as small bodies or lenses within pelitic schist layers and show compositional banding of carbonate- and silicate- rich bands.  Textural analysis revealed two metamorphic stages.  The early stage is testified by relicts of ...

Akron is a new connection game played with marbles on a square grid. Most games in this family, such as the classics Hex and Y, tend to be hexagonal in nature to avoid problems with deadlocks in the plane. Gonnect (AG 6) is a rare exception on the square grid that uses Go-like captures to elegantly get around this problem. Akron takes a different route; upwards. Players resolve deadlocks by sta...

This paper discusses three instances of compositions, in which physical and cyber everyday objects interact. The physical objects such as plastic corrugated tubes, plastic superballs, glass marbles, cocktail shakers, electric blenders, and others provide unique musical data for the performance and input data for their physically modeled counterparts. Besides the compositional strategies, the ar...

Natural stones are one of the indispensable elements people from shelter to weapons. Among these stone types, marbles and marble-derived products among objects that always prefer, bathroom kitchen, garden design small decorative home decorations. While named according regions where they extracted, their types qualities classified based on observation by who qualified as experts in this field. T...

Timing is everything when trying to land a mate. In many species, female receptivity tomale sexual advances is synchronized to fertility and is mediated by steroid hormones produced in the gonads, such as oestrogens. How these hormones tune neural circuits to transition females to mate-seeking mode is unclear. In a series of elegant experiments, neuroscientist Jenna McHenry and colleagues in Ga...

Aléria was the main city of island Corsica in ancient times. Archaeological excavations area where once stood began between 1950s and 1960s brought to light numerous inscriptions mainly carved on slabs white marble; they constitute an important source knowledge city’s institutions, urban topography, society, economy. The provenance marbles, which were carved, can add information about history c...