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Three appear important for getting the female’s attention, he and his colleagues report today in Current Biology. All three are aldehydes, which are responsible for lots of odors. The three include one known to be an insect sex pheromone and another that smells like a pear. Females spend time sniffing or […]
It’s no secret that millions of metric tons of plastic waste wash into the ocean each year, where it is broken down into smaller fragments that are incredibly hard to track. Research released of the heinous impacts this has on ocean ecosystems, like causing aneurysms in fish, and sea turtles and […]
The research focus of this lab, headed by David Zarrouk, is the modeling, designing, and manufacturing of unique robots. This includes miniature crawling robots and serial crawling robots for search & rescue applications, space, maintenance, agricultural and medical purposes. They specialize in designing minimally actuated robots that are easy to control […]
Displays for flexible and wearable electronic devices currently rely mostly on plastic. Researchers Hai-Dong Yu, Juqing Liu, and Wei Huang wanted to find a more environmentally friendly and biodegradable material for these displays. They discovered that the gelatin derived from collagen in fish scales is a promising alternative. After the gelatin […]
The use of bio-inspiration to create new products and devices requires the development of new design tools and manufacturing technologies, as well as the education of students capable of using them. This paper explores education tools that emphasize bio-inspired product realization. This paper provides an overview of educational technologies and describes […]
A paper published in Angewandte Chemie, a journal of the German Chemical Society, demonstrated the production of medically relevant chemicals (including an intermediate form of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin) using modified solar concentrators, which capture light much like leaves do. A team led by Timothy Noël, an associate professor at the […]
A team of aeronautical enginneers and bio-engineers at CalTech created a “wind turbine farm design” with an alternative orientation. Traditionally, turbines rotate on a horizontal axis; however, Robert Whittlesey, Sebastian Liska, and John O Dabiri were inspired by the mesmerizing geometric arrangement of shed vortices in the […]
Hao Yan studied chemistry at Shandong University, China. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry under Professor N. C. Seeman, New York University in 2001. Following a period as an Assistant Research Professor at Duke University in the Computer Science department, he joined Arizona State University as Assistant Professor in Department of […]
Lentink’s team turned to the humble pigeon in order to discover these secrets of avian flight. “[They’re] under-appreciated fliers,” Lentink told Popular Mechanics. In a report published in Science Robotics, Lentink and his team discovered that pigeons—as well as most other flying birds—do not use individual muscles to control each of […]
The Biodesign Institute plays a critical role in advancing the research mission of Arizona State University. The Biodesign Institute embodies the guiding principles of the New American University, as defined by Arizona State University President Michael Crow, specifically, to conduct use-inspired research, fuse intellectual disciplines and value entrepreneurship. The Biodesign Institute […]
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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…