Research conducted by Scarangella, Doldan, and Mitov focuses on biologically inspired designs with applications in materials science and potential anti-counterfeiting technology. It was shown that biological patterns found in fruits and insects contain a continuous structure while maintaining discontinuous color patterns.

Looking at insects, Exocuticle and indocuticle processes studied in the […]

Research created a new, bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue that may be a better solution to treating traumatic injuries. The researchers received funding to commercialize their glue and to perform more preclinical studies in animal models from the MIT Deshpande Center. The new adhesive can stick to surfaces even when covered with […]

The fluttery flight of butterflies has so far been somewhat of a mystery to researchers, given their unusually large and broad wings relative to their body size. Now researchers have studied the aerodynamics of butterflies in a wind tunnel. The results suggest that butterflies use a highly effective clap technique, therefore […]

Geotechnical engineer and assistant professor Idil Akin from Washington State University became fascinated with how kangaroo rats can build burrows which withstand harsh climates for generations. How, with such a simple material like soil, could they make such durable structures that could withstand dry climates, humidity fluctuations, […]

Paper Abstract: The design of smart surfaces with switchable adhesive properties in a wet environment has remained a challenge in adhesion science and materials engineering. Despite intense demands in various industrial applications and exciting progress in mimicking the remarkable wet adhesion through the delicate control of catechol chemistry, polyelectrolyte complex, and […]

Using CRISPR gene editing, rats with higher levels of oxytocin were more likely to be social and try to meet new rats.
“In a word, the ability to meet a new friend, transform the episodic information into memory, and store it for a long time could be partially regulated by […]

“Distributed search problems are ubiquitous in Artificial Life (ALife). Many distributed search problems require identifying a rare and previously unseen event and producing a rapid response. This challenge amounts to finding and removing an unknown needle in a very large haystack. Traditional computational search models are unlikely to find, nonetheless, appropriately […]

While animals generally move through the aquatic environment by propelling themselves through the water or walking on submerged substrates, some have evolved the unique capacity to move along the water–air interface. This is because cohesive forces between water molecules cause the surface to be in tension, providing a physical substrate that […]

In recent decades, synthetic plastic polymers have been the most practical and economical solution for packaging applications due to their low cost, availability, excellent optical, mechanical and barrier properties and resistance against water. However, most of the plastics used for packaging are hardly biodegradable. With a view to a circular economy, […]