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Using chiton scales on marine mollusks as bio-inspiration, researchers and manufacturers were able to create a synthetic flexible armor. More specifically, researches were inspired by the tesselate formation of small, mineralized scales arranged on the soft girdle of the shell plates of a marine mollusk species. After collaborating with these researchers, […]
Bioengineers have redesigned how harmless E. coli bacteria ”talk” to each other. The new genetic circuit could become a useful new tool for synthetic biologists who, as a field, are looking for ways to better control the bacteria they engineer to perform all sorts of tasks, including drug delivery, bioproduction of […]
Abstract Nature demonstrates adaptive and extreme shape morphing via unique patterns of movement. Many of them have been explained by monolithic shape-changing mechanisms, such as chemical swelling, skin stretching, origami/kirigami morphing, or geometric eversion, that were successfully mimicked in artificial analogs. However, there still remains an unexplored regime of natural morphing […]
Generating electricity from raindrops efficiently has gone one step further. A research team has recently developed a droplet-based electricity generator (DEG), featured with a field-effect transistor (FET)-like structure that allows for high energy-conversion efficiency and instantaneous power density increased by thousands times compared to its counterparts without FET-like structure. This would […]
Exploration was established in 2007 by Michael Pawlyn after ten years working at Grimshaw on The Eden Project and other high-profile projects. We focus on regenerative design approaches that go beyond conventional sustainable design. Whereas sustainability has too often involved simply mitigating negatives, regenerative design implies a much more positive approach […]
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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…