Posts by: AndrewChen
Origami allows for compact and lightweight designs, but it usually isn’t very pliable. Ladybugs have collapsible wings controlled by a specialized vein that acts as a main frame. This type of compliant foldable design allows for energy storage as well, which means the wing can deploy quickly and also sustain aerodynamic […]
The term bird’s nest is often used to describe a messy arrangement, but in reality they are much more durable, yet no one is sure about the mechanisms behind them. Dr. Hunter King at University of Akron, Ohio studies the structural dynamics of […]
Biofluorescent animals have been documented before, but most of them were aquatic. Scientists at the St. Cloud State University in Minnesota used blue light on 14 different families of amphibians and found that they all glowed in some way, each with different intensities and patterns. This was […]
Researchers at MIT and the University of Maryland built a robot clam that digs 10 times as efficient as current digging machines. Its design is based on the razor clam, which has a long narrow shell like a razor and has an exceptional digging ability. It works […]
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I imagine that the neurological circuits underlying these processes are governed by both 2d spacing maps with their brains as…
to reduce the impact of car accidents, it may be possible to study the force diverting physics of cockroaches to…
you see this type of head-bobbing stability in many avian creatures related to pigeons like chickens. the head ability to…
not like they taught horses how to run! this is an example of convergent evolution where both sea creatures and…
The brain functions in a similar way with neuronal connections. our brains are able to utilize the multiplicity of connections…