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Mosquitos are among the deadliest insects on the planet due to their ability to transmit diseases like malaria through their bite. To bite, a mosquito must insert a set of micro-sized needles through the skin to reach vascular structures. The mosquito uses a combination of mechanisms including […]
Abstract: “The profusion of rhododendrons in cold climates is as remarkable as the beauty of their blooms. The cold-hardiness of some of the montane species is in part due to reversible leaf movements triggered under frigid conditions wherein the leaves droop at the leaf stalks (petioles) and their margins roll up […]
A team of engineers and marine biologists built a better suction cup inspired by the mechanism that allows the clingfish to adhere to both smooth and rough surfaces. Researchers reverse-engineered the clingfish’s suction disk and developed devices that cling well to wet and dry objects both in and out of water. […]
Many robots’ movements are inspired by patterns of movements observed in animals, such as chemical swelling, skin stretching or origami morphing. Researchers at Seoul National University’s Soft Robotics Research Center have been studying how pelican eel fish inflates its mouth and have analyzed how this behavior could […]
This news article discusses how some amphibians absorb blue and ultraviolet light and can re-emit neon green light (which is not obvious to the human eye).
Researchers created a high-contrast, high resolution camera. It had an arrayed design of micro-optical elements (MOEs) comprising multilayered aperture arrays (MAAs) and inverted microlens arrays (iMLAs) directly stacked over an image sensor. It was directly inspired by the eye structures of the paper wasp species Xenos peckii, […]
Biomaterial scaffolds show advanced mechanical properties and a good degradation profile, as well as the feasibility of controlled release of growth and differentiation factors or immobilizing them on the material surface. Recently, nano/micro-assisted regenerative medicine becomes a promising application of TE (tissue engineering) for the reconstruction of bone defects. We herein […]
Abstract: “Biological metal-organic frameworks (bioMOFs) are a new subclass of the MOF family. In comparison with traditional MOFs, the bioMOFs are made of multifunctional biologically related ligands (bio-ligand) and metal ions. The bio-ligands confer biological compatibility for traditional MOFs, thus providing many opportunities for a wide array of biological applications. This […]
The massive and long-term service of 5083 aluminum alloy (AA5083) is restricted by several shortcomings in marine and industrial environments, such as proneness to localized corrosion attack, surface contamination, etc. Herein, we report a facile and cost-effective strategy to transform intrinsic hydrophilicity into water-repellent superhydrophobicity, combining fluorine-free […]
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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…