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Owls are widely known for silent flight, which they are able to achieve due to their unique wing morphologies. Their wings are normally characterized by leading-edge serrations, trailing-edge fringes, and velvet-like surfaces. With these morphological features, owls are able to create aerodynamic force production and sound suppression or noise reduction. Owl-inspired […]
Researchers at Harvard University have designed a material, liquid-crystal elastomers (LCEs), that can follow the sun as it moves throughout the day. LCEs are rubbery polymers that take inspiration from the pads of gecko feet, controlling the directions in which the materials can move and stretch. Key to molecular structure of […]
At Cambridge University, researchers are looking into ways to develop a process to make strong, stretchy threads in an environmentally friendly way. They hope to create such material that could replace plastics and other harmful materials. This new material the researchers are studying […]
In this article, researchers at the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology in the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, remark their findings of nuclear transfer cloning. They discuss Dolly, the first cloned sheep, and the egg cloning techniques that they used to produce Dolly. There are also many […]
Electronics are rapidly merging with biology through the increased prevalence of bio-integrated electronics in wearable electronics, robotics, electronic skin, human–machine interfacing, and implantable electronics. o successfully integrate with the soft tissues of the body (eg. skin), the material must possess many of the same properties including compliance, toughness, elasticity, and tear […]
Elegant, efficient wind turbine blades that move like whale fins. Super-strong adhesives that stick and release like barnacles and gecko feet. Every day, innovative new technologies are inspired by the natural world. In this Brandeis Bio-Inspired design summer program, we work with biologists, engineers and artists to explore intriguing life forms […]
Researchers looked into shark skin to create more aerodynamic horizontal stabilizers for aircrafts. Shark skin is unique in that it has drag-reducing properties that allow sharks to more easily in the water. This property would be very useful in aeronautics as it is […]
MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible enough to twist and turn in any necessary configuration, yet rigid enough to support […]
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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…